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In Focus | Africa
Online betting explosion leaves Africa's casinos for dust

From left to right : Nigeria soccer player Jay-Jay Okocha with BetKing CEO Byron Petzer and Chief Operations Officer Neil Bothma. © Betking

Thanks to the widespread availability of mobile payments in Africa, online betting is developing fast all over the continent and competing with the gaming clubs which brought fame and fortune to a handful of European entrepreneurs there in the 1980s and 1990s.

Subscribers only Business

Central Africa

Gabon
Paris law firm Betto recruits a former Addax executive close to the Bongos

Gabonese lawyer Vivien Amos Péa (right) with Sylvia and Ali Bongo. © Facebook/Vivien Amos Péa

Arbitration specialist Betto Perben Pradel Filhol, keen to develop its activities in Africa, is bringing experts in Gabonese politics into its team.

Subscribers only Energy

Chad
Ex-oil minister Djerassem Le Bemadjiel still unhelpfully behind bars as election looms

As the country gears up to April's presidential election, former oil minister Djerassem Le Bemadjiel remains detained awaiting trial following his arrest in September. Running for a sixth term, Idris Déby would have liked his support on the campaign trail.

Subscribers only Energy

DRC
Google may be added to class action over child labour in mines

Terry Collingsworth, representing plaintiffs who accuse US tech firms of faciltiating child labour in mines, has accepted the arguments of Hogan Lovells, the law firm representing Alphabet, which state that as it is simply Google's parent company, it is not directly responsible for the activities of its subsidiary.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa

Nigeria
New Lekoil chair Michael Ajukwu's many South African connections

Lekoil's newly appointed chairman, the well-connected Nigerian banker Michael Ajukwu, embodies the ties between the Nigerian junior and its biggest shareholder, South African miner Metallon.

Subscribers only Energy

Ivory Coast
MCA strives to speed up Abidjan transport project

The Millenium Challenge Account Côte d'Ivoire is planning to rehabilitate 32 km of roads and build truck parks at Abijdan's port, so as to make it more competitive with those in Lomé, Tema and Dakar.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Ghana
Foreign minister Botchway, centrepiece of Akufo Addo's ECOWAS chairmanship

Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo's powerful foreign minister for the past four years, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway is to chair a meeting of her ECOWAS colleagues in Mali on 19 January.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Malawi
Ministerial Covid deaths weaken President Chakwera

Malawian head of state Lazarus Chakwera. © Golden Matonga/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

President Chakwera, whose governing coalition was already in troubled waters, lost two ministers and a permanent secretary to Covid-19 in a matter of days this week. One of them, Sidik Mia, was his party's number two and a major financial backer.

Subscribers only Politics

Madagascar
Madagascar Oil encroaches on Axian's turf

Madagascar Oil has won its first contract to supply fuel to electricity company Jirama, which has previously sourced almost exclusively from Axian.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Seychelles
Seychelles refinances its debt with marine preservation fund

The President of the Republic of Seychelles, during his speech at the One Planet Summit. © Republic of Seychelles' presidency.

The One Planet Summit organized in early January by France and the UN gave President Wavel Ramkalawan a chance to fundraise for the SeyCCAT conservation fund, which is also designed to repay the country's debt.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy

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