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Spotlight | Africa
Total execs jockey for firm's number two job

Total CEO Patrick Pouyanné. © Aurelien Morissard/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

The eight seats on Total's executive committee represent the Holy Grail for the French oil major's top executives. Various contenders are currently jockeying for the exploration and production position - equivalent to the CEO's right-hand man - that is due to become available by 2022.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

DRC
Glencore close to settling tax dispute with Kinshasa

Congolese tax authorities and Glencore are currently in discussions over the hefty tax adjustment demanded for 2017 and 2018.

Subscribers only Mining

Central Africa
CEMAC leaders brood over exclusion from Paris summit

Denis Sassou NGuesso, much to the irritation of his fellow Central African heads of state, was the only one among them who managed to get himself invited to the Paris summit on the financing of African economies.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

DRC
Presidential envoy and mining entrepreneur Luc Gérard Nyafé set to buy Banro's gold

Luc Gérard Nyafé, the ambassador-at-large who runs Auplata, looks to be on the verge of clinching the purchase of the Namoya goldmine that Banro has been trying to offload for months.

Subscribers only Mining

Gabon, Russia
Michael Moussa in Moscow

The Gabonese defence minister Michael Moussa Adamo travelled to Russia last week for a series of meetings with various military and industry figures.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

West Africa
Changing tides for Norway's Aker in West Africa

The Røkke family company quickly took West African oil services and exploration by storm but its future there is not looking so rosy.

Subscribers only Energy

France, Ivory Coast
Ouattara's evening at the Elysée

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) greets Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara as he arrives at the Grand Palais Ephemere for the Financing of African Economies Summit in Paris, 18 May 2021. © Ian Langsdon/Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Invited by the French president to attend a ceremony in honour of the ex-MD of the IMF Michel Camdessus, to whom he is very close, the Ivorian president will try to raise the issue of budgetary cooperation, which has been the source of recent frictions between Paris and Abidjan.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ivory Coast
Ex-minister and Gbagbo advisor Ahoua Don Mello to return after ten-year exile

The former Minister of Equipment Ahoua Don Mello in 2011. © Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters

Ahoua Don Mello has to apply for a regular Ivorian passport on 20 May.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Rwanda, Uganda
Kagame and Museveni eye each other warily and up their military budgets

Rwanda and Uganda will be presenting their 2021-22 budgets to their respective parliaments on the same day, 10 June. Both have earmarked substantial sums for defence spending.

Subscribers only Politics

Djibouti
IOG gives green light for regeneration of Djibouti's old port

Already the leading player in the Djiboutian maritime sector, China Merchants is set to build a new business district on the site of Djibouti's old port.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Djibouti
IOG's entourage ousts CEO and takes control of sovereign fund

Before it even hits its stride, Djibouti's new sovereign wealth fund, launched by President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) in September 2020 to better manage the country's revenue, is facing a leadership crisis.

Subscribers only Business

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