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Spotlight | Sudan
Bashir plans his defence from Kober prison

Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. © Abd Rabbo Ammar/Abaca/Reuters

After numerous delays, largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ex-president Omar al-Bashir's trial hearings are due to resume tomorrow in the Sudanese capital. A report on the prison conditions of the ousted long-time ruler of Khartoum.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

DRC
Tshisekedi strives for unity among his advisors over Grand Inga

Félix Tshisekedi wants key players in the Grand Inga project to work in sync, while his special infrastructure advisor rushes ahead with Australian firm Fortescue to develop the mega-dams.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

West Africa

In Focus | Africa
Bongo, M6, Bakayoko and Bolloré: how rap stars hobnob at highest levels of African power

Gims in concert in 2019. © Stéphanie Para/La Montagne/PhotoPQR/MaxPPP

A number of leading rap stars, among them Akon, Booba and Gims, have established close links with the occupants of Africa's presidential palaces. And, because they serve as links between France and Africa, their services are actively sought by the French government, which is looking for ways to communicate with young people in Africa.

Subscribers only Politics

Guinea
UMS and ex-partner Laprade in court in June over 'hijacked' plane

Guinean mining logistics giant UMS and Canadian businessman Jean Laprade, who have been fighting for over a year about the ownership of a plane used to transport personnel and goods, are to appear before a Canadian court in June.

Subscribers only Mining

Nigeria
Dan Etete emerges miraculously unscarred from decade-long fight against corruption

Dan Etete in 1995, when he was Nigeria's oil minister. © Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters

Along with the leaders of Shell and ENI, an Italian court has acquitted of corruption a major beneficiary of the OPL 245 oilfield sellout: Dan Etete, former Nigerian oil minister and Niger Delta kingmaker.

Subscribers only Energy

Egypt, Senegal
Cairn, flush with Sangomar cash, allies with Cheiron in Egyptian desert

Cairn Energy, less than three months after pulling out of the Sangomar oil field in Senegal, has moved into a new country, Egypt, with a powerful and well-connected local partner.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
Total set to finally sign Tilenga FID

The French major's repeatedly postponed investment in the Tilenga field is almost in the bag.

Subscribers only Energy

South Sudan
Regional veterans WS Insight and Pinnacle Security to guard UNMISS facilities

The peacekeeping mission is set to spend $50m on the two private security companies, who have ample experience and solid networks in East Africa.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls Stock Exchange courts junior miners

Backed by an enthusiastic President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the young Victoria Falls Stock Exchange is stepping up its efforts to attract international mining investors and is bending over backwards to appeal to juniors on Anglo-Saxon exchanges.

Subscribers only Mining

Mozambique
Carlos Mesquita consolidates his power within Nyusi's government

Trade and industry minister Carlos Mesquita is making the most of the fall from grace of his agriculture counterpart Celso Correia, until now widely seen as President Filipe Nyusi's confidant.

Subscribers only Politics

North Africa

Morocco
Masen's big solar farm programme risks blowing a fuse

Masen CEO Mustapha Bakkoury. © Dirk Waem/Belga/MaxPPP

Renewable energy agency Masen, which plans to use private investment to develop a number of PV power stations, is having to deal with ill will on the part of national electricity utility ONEE at a time when its chairman Mustapha Bakkoury is out of favour politically.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Libya
With Dabaiba in his corner, Kabir hopes to reassure UK investors

Al Seddik Omar al-Kabir, who kept his job as governor of the Libyan Central Bank after Abdelhamid Dabaiba took the helm of the new transitional unified government on 15 March, has made numerous official appearances in recent days and is planning more.

Subscribers only Business

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