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Spotlight | Africa
Russia opts for Saint Petersburg as summit venue in face of African squabbling

Russia's president Vladimir Putin stands next to Egypt's president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa during the Africa-Russia summit 2019 in Sochi. © Sergei Chirikov/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The rivalries among African nations have prompted Moscow to give up on the idea of holding the Africa-Russia gathering on the African continent and go with Saint Petersburg instead in November 2022.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

The Continent

Africa
Viasat, SpaceX and Airtel look to launch Africa's internet into orbit

Although submarine fibre optic links are on the increase, several international operators are now waging a war in space in order to establish their satellites as the new relays for the African internet.

Subscribers only Business

West Africa

Burkina Faso
Kaboré's party faces existential crisis

President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. © Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect

The presidential Mouvement du peuple pour le progrès (MPP) party has offered little support to Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, either in countering the demonstrators who questioned his security record, or in forming a new government, the latter responsibility eventually being entrusted to Lassina Zerbo.

Subscribers only Politics

Guinea
Dynamic rejoins race to produce bauxite

After a hiatus caused by a dispute with neighbours, India's Dynamic Mining is set to resume building its bauxite mine and related infrastructure early next year.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Tanzania
Third mining arbitration against the state set to start

The ICSID panel of judges that will rule on the dispute between the Canadian company Montero Mining & Exploration and Tanzania has finally been constituted. It will examine the government's withrawal of Montero's Wigu Hill permit.

Subscribers only Mining

Southern Africa and islands

Inner circles | South Africa
Denel's top brass struggles to turn around troubled defence champion

South African defence minister Thandi Modise and her counterpart in charge of public enterprises Pravin Gordhan. © Nic Bothma/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

Denel, leading supplier to the South African armed forces, is in a critical financial situation. The company is trying to get the government to give it the funds its needs to pay its debts. Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan and new defence minister Thandi Modise have been given the job of trying to help the flailing state-owned company.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Mozambique
TotalEnergies reviews all its options in Cabo Delgado

The French major and the Mozambican authorities are indicating that investments may resume in the conflict-ridden province in 2022, but the nature of the operations there could change radically.

Subscribers only Energy

Namibia
Kalahari copperbelt fever slowly spreads to Namibia

There has been a flurry of activity in neighbouring Botswana since the beginning of this year, but now the Namibian section of the Kalahari copperbelt is also attracting increasingly active exploration projects.

Subscribers only Mining

South Africa
Spotify poaches new Africa boss from Facebook

The Swedish music streaming company Spotify has appointed a new managing director for sub-Saharan Africa

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

Morocco
Why Brussels envoy Youssef Amrani is still missing in action

Youssef Amrani, appointed Morocco's representative to the EU by Mohammed VI on 17 October 2021. © Wallace Woon/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Appointed Morocco's representative to the European Union by Mohammed VI on 17 October, Youssef Amrani was subsquently not confirmed in that post by the king on 14 December. However, it is in fact Brussels that is delaying his appointment due to Morocco-EU tensions.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Algeria
Promised Sahel export hubs slow to get off the ground

Algiers has been slow to make good on its ambitions to develop Sahel trade by building logistics hubs in the far south. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's government touted the grand plans as a means of boosting the country's influence in the region.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

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