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Spotlight | Guinea
Doumbouya pursues international lobbying campaign to extend transition period

Guinea's President Mamadi Doumbouya addresses the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City on 21 September 2023. © Brendan McDermid/Reuters

The Guinean government has been quietly sounding out Western partners about a potential extension to the transition period. It is scheduled to terminate at the end of 2024, but could be renewed for a further year.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Central Africa

Cameroon
Turbulence continues for Cameroonian external intelligence agency

The head of operations at Cameroon's Directorate General for External Research, a veteran of the institution, has been sacked just two months after taking office. The external intelligence agency has struggled to steady itself following the arrest of former director Léopold Maxime Eko Eko.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Gabon
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema promotes private office director to board of strategic investment fund

Transition President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is set to appoint the head of his private office Victorine Tchicot to the Gabonese Sovereign Wealth Fund (FGIS)'s board of directors.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics, Business

West Africa

Mauritania, Senegal
BP's launch plans for Tortue thwarted again

The development of the cross-border gas field continues to be hit by delays linked to the repair of operating equipment, amid an uncertain political context in Senegal.

Subscribers only Energy

Guinea
US giant Cisco poised to sign internet infrastructure deal with Conakry

A delegation of Guinean officials is due to arrive in the United States in the next few days for a final round of negotiations with Californian giant Cisco.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Nairobi revives investigation into operator Telkom's attempted takeover

Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto in Nairobi, Kenya, on 13 September 2022 during the inauguration ceremony. © Tony Karumba/AFP

Kenya's admission to the Egmont financial intelligence group could lift the lid on a 2022 deal worth almost $40m, which took place just before the Kenyatta administration's departure.

Subscribers only Finance

Ethiopia
Toppan Gravity Ethiopia searches for insurance to print passports

The new joint venture between Japanese printer Toppan and the Ethiopian administration is struggling to find insurance to build a local printing factory to produce passports. This is a large investment, made more complicated by political and economic tensions.

Subscribers only Business

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
Africa Global Logistics appoints new Lobito boss

Africa Global Logistics, which has signed the concession contract for the container and multipurpose terminal of Lobito Port, has taken on board African port expert David Reekmans.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining, Commodity traders

North Africa

Morocco
Electric batteries: Rabat consults renowned physicist Rachid Yazami

Moroccan scientist and engineer Rachid Yazami receives the Grand Prize during the VinFuture award ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam on 20 December 2023. © Luong Thai Linh/EPA/MAXPPP

Despite being one of the world's leading experts on electric batteries, his knowledge has so far mainly been used abroad, notably in Singapore and at NASA in the United States.

Subscribers only Energy

Tunisia
The four influential officers that have Kais Saied's ear

Since his 2021 power grab, President Saied has relied on a handful of high-ranking officers who have been steadily exerting their influence over Tunisia's public affairs and setting the country's political agenda.

Subscribers only Politics

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