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Spotlight | Angola
After the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar jostle for influence in Luanda

Despite a breakthrough in the Doha-Riyadh feud in January, the Angolan president Joao Lourenço is methodically positioning his players to make the most of the ongoing competition between the Gulf countries.

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Central Africa

Congo
Brazzaville flies solo in debt talks with traders

Under pressure from the IMF, which for the past 18 months has been blocking the second tranche of the $448.6m loan it approved in 2019, Congo is trying to revive talks with traders who have extended oil-backed loans to the country.

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Congo, Gabon
Zenith loses Gabonese trump card Boumbendjé, sees Mberi alliance falter

The Canadian company has been pulling out all the stops in Congo to get its Tilapia license renewed. But while it has been focused on this priority, its plans in Gabon are faltering.

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West Africa

France, Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Strauss-Kahn turns to Bissau as he scrabbles for new contracts

Former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn. © Michael Reynolds/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Having failed to take advantage of the G20's debt suspension initiative, which brought in new African contracts for all his competitors, former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now offering his services as a consultant in Africa's smallest capitals.

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Guinea
Cécé Noramou, ready to retire from mining ministry, launches consulting firm

As Cécé Noramou, technical advisor to Guinea's ministry of mines, awaits his imminent retirement, he is finalising a project to decide upon the best approach for relocating, resettling, and compensating people affected by mining projects.

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Niger
Mohamed Bazoum takes presidential campaign to Paris

The Nigerien presidential candidate and former interior minister Mohamed Bazoum. © Britta Pedersen/dpa/picture-alliance/MaxPPP

With less than a month to go before he faces Mahamne Ousmane in the second round of the presidential election, Mohamed Bazoum has been in Paris since 19 January with a host of press interviews already lined up.

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Mali, Senegal
Constellis deploys military advisers to support UN peacekeepers in Mali and Senegal

Le géant américain des services à la défense Constellis Group (ex-Academi Training Center) a envoyé en fin d'année des instructeurs militaires en Afrique de l'Ouest.

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Mali
AfDB to take over financing of Kenié dam abandonned by IFC

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is examining a case for the financing of the 42-MW hydropower plant Kenié. The Abuja-based institution is in talks with the project developer, French power producer Eranove.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
Omar Guelleh angers Khartoum as he courts favour with Abiy

President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh (left) talks with Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali (right) during the 33rd African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 09 February 2020. © STR/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

The Djiboutian president has raised hackles among the top brass in the Sudanese army as he seeks closer ties with the Ethiopian prime minister in the hope of persuading him to forget his long-running friendship with the Tigrayan leadership.

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Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Judge Dennis Davis still chasing wealthiest taxpayers

South African judge Dennis Davis. © Twitter/@UCT_Law_at_work

Tax Review Committee chair Dennis Davis has slammed the state's inability to collect dues from its wealthiest citizens. The fiscal authority is trying to get a better grip, but has been left weakened by its previous director.

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Madagascar, South Africa
Gold smugglers used same plane as finance ministry

The arrest of three gold smugglers in South Africa earlier this month was a particularly unwelcome development for Rajoelina's government because the plane that flew them to Johannesburg is frequently used by the finance ministry.

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North Africa

Morocco
Lamalif drops African urban projects, moves into luxury housing in Marrakesh

Lamalif CEO Moulay Lakbir Alaoui Ismaili. © Lamalif Group

Moulay Lakbir Alaoui Ismaili's street lighting and street furniture specialist Lamalif will build four luxury estates in one of Marrakesh's most affluent neighbourhoods.

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Kuwait, Libya
Paris FNAC store case to be heard by France's Court of Cassation in March

The FNAC store on Paris' Avenue des Ternes. © Olivier Boitet/Le Parisien/PhotoPQR/MaxPPP

Kuwaiti construction group Al Kharafi, which is seeking $1bn in compensation from the Libyan Investment Authority following the cancellation of a big property project in Janzour, has had seized a number of the authority's assets in France, among them the FNAC store in Paris's Avenue des Ternes.

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Libya
Fayez Sarraj lines up Tripoli's militias against Bachagha

Following the example of Rada, the Ghneiwa militia has now accepted the authority of Fayez Sarraj's Presidential Council. This brings the prime minister a step closer to gaining control of the Tripoli government's security system, which is normally answerable to the Ministry of the Interior, and, by the same token, to thwarting the ambitions of Misrati interior minister Fathi Bachagha.

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