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Spotlight | Sudan
Biden, Macron and Johnson cosy up to sanctions-free Khartoum

Newly freed from the US sanctions that locked it out of the world's financial markets, Khartoum is set to make its international comeback. The next six months will see France, the UK, and the US jostle to become Sudan's leading partner, especially when it comes to debt restructuring.

Subscribers only Business

West Africa

Nigeria
Why former vice president Atiku Abubakar bailed out of Intels

Former Vice President of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar. © STR/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

A veritable money tree for the presidential candidate in 2019, Intels is no longer the force it once was since Muhammadu Buhari has been in power.

Subscribers only Energy

Ivory Coast
Roxgold puts finishing touches to its new west African hub in Abidjan

By moving its West Africa general manager from Ouagadougou to Abidjan and appointing a country manager there, Roxgold has reinforced Ivory Coast's position as its regional operating centre.

Subscribers only Mining

Ghana
GNPC heavily criticised over decision to import Shell gas

Ghanaian gas: western abundance, eastern scarcity. © Africa Intelligence/Indigo Publications-2021

The choice of Shell in Ghana to import gas for the Tema LNG terminal has raised eyebrows, as local producers have the capacity to supply the country's power plants.

Subscribers only Energy

Mali
Behind-doors negotiations over next MINUSMA chief

The arrival of the Biden administration should help rekindle talks for a replacement of the current MINUSMA head, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, whose mandate ends in April. Paris and Washington have been bickering over the matter for months.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Algeria, Nigeria, South Africa
As AU's position on Western Sahara shifts, Minister Boukadoum is sent to rally "last" allies

Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum met his Angolan counterpart Tete Antonio on 14 January 2021. © Twitter/Sabri Boukadoum

The Algerian foreign minister Sabri Boukadoum has paid a visit to the few, still pro-Polisario capitals in Africa with the hope of gaining room for manoeuvre on the matter of the disputed region. He came away disappointed.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
Museveni's ousted vice president battles for ambassador job in Beijing

Ugandan Vice President Edward Ssekandi (right) with Wang Yang, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in 2018. © Pang Xinglei/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

The vice president Edward Ssekandi is currently the favourite to represent Museveni in Beijing. A Sinophile, he is one of the many big guns of the National Resistance Movement who lost their seats in parliament and are now eyeing a diplomatic career.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Ethiopia, Somalia
Abiy frustrated at Farmajo's lack of support

For months the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has offered his support to Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's bid for another term in February but is beginning to lose patience with the Somalian president's failure to return the favour.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Mauritius
Port Louis makes its case behind closed doors against its blacklisting

As it strives to get itself removed as quickly as possible from the EU's money laundering blacklist to which it was added in May 2020, the Mauritian government's efforts are being thwarted by the cumbersome procedures it has to go through.

Free access Finance, Business

North Africa

Morocco
Eric Besson leads SICPA's charge into medical traceability business

Eric Besson, then Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Solidarity Development, during a visit to Tangier in 2010. © Joelle Vassort/MAXPPP

On 18 January in Rabat, SICPA Maroc chairman Eric Besson presented the firm's pharmaceutical tracing products to industrialists and the Moroccan authorities at a seminar organised by low-profile lobbyist Ahmed Bahaddou.

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Tunisia
Tunisia banks on trade with Libya as it pushes ahead with Gabès-Ras Jedir highway

Despite the fall in its trade with Libya, in part because of the ongoing political and security crisis there, Tunisia is trying to speed up work on the highway which will give it a new link with its turbulent neighbour.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Tunisia
SNCFT's phosphate transport plans hit the buffers

Issued by the Société nationale des chemins de fer tunisiens, the call for expressions of interest in conducting surveys and devising a call for tenders to renovate 165 km of railway line in the phosphate triangle was declared unsuccessful on 7 January.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining, Business

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