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Spotlight | Algeria
Tebboune shakes up his secret services

Director of the DGSE Bernard Emie, French Armies Minister Sebastien Lecornu, French President Emmanuel Macron and French Chief of the Defence Staff General Thierry Burkhard, attend a lunch with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (2nd R) and Algerian generals at the presidential residence in Zeralda on 26 August 2022, during an official visit to Algeria. © Ludovic MARIN/Pool/AFP

As he restructures the intelligence services, a process that he embarked upon in July, the Algerian leader is retaking control of an apparatus that for many years had enjoyed a certain autonomy from presidential oversight.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Congo
Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso loses ground in Brazzaville

Despite considerable self-promotion efforts, the international cooperation minister is struggling to find his place within a government where he has managed to irk several ministers. His public-private partnership law has just been rejected by his father, the Congolese president, who keeps him at a safe distance from presidential affairs.

Subscribers only Politics

DRC
Kinshasa launches audit of petroleum products as fuel shortage kicks in

Faced with fuel shortages in Kinshasa, the government of DRC led by Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyeng has launched an audit on the pricing structure of petroleum products.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics

Burundi
President and former PM take their battle to the pulpits

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiyeni and his former prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni. © Evrard Ngendakumana/Reuters / Guven Yilmaz/Anadolu Agency via AFP

Since sacking his prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni earlier this month, the president Evariste Ndayishimiye has striven to regain control of several sectors, including Burundi's influential churches.

Free access Politics

West Africa

Africa
Muhammadu Sanusi II, the powerful new Fulani 'president'

Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano, and Chairman of the Black Rhino Group speaks on the first day of the Mining Indaba 2016 Conference on 8 February 2016 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town. © Rodger Bosch/AFP

The former Emir of Kano and newly-elected head of the powerful Fulani association Tabital Pulaaku International, can boast one of the most extensive address books in the region. He plans to meet several west African presidents in the coming weeks.

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Benin, France
Benin's security chiefs negotiate military support plan in Paris

Bertin Bada, President Patrice Talon's chief of military staff, met senior colleagues of French army chief General Thierry Burkhard in Paris in mid-September. Talks are in progress on military equipment purchases and a plan to set up a Beninese government arms procurement service.

Subscribers only Defence

Ghana
Cocobod grapples with cocoa farmers' associations

Communications between the cocoa sector regulator and the main bean producer organisations have become strained. The latter reproach the public body for not consulting them, particularly on the re-evaluation of the on-farm price, unchanged since 2019.

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Ivory Coast
NSIA Banque sells head office to Plateau city council for €21m

The pan-African banking group NSIA Banque, founded by the Ivorian businessman Jean Kacou Diagou has decided to sell its headquarters in Abidjan's administrative and business district, Plateau, to the city council led by Jacques Ehouo.

Subscribers only Finance

Southern Africa and islands

Portugal, Southern Africa
Portugal overhauls its Africa policy team

The Portuguese foreign ministry has decided to overhaul its entire Africa department just months after its first change of boss since 2015.

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Angola
Oil minister gives official approval to Somoil's acquisitions in blocks 14 and 14T

Le ministre du pétrole Diamantino Azevedo a entériné le 8 septembre le rachat par la junior angolaise Somoil des participations du japonais Inpex et du français TotalEnergies sur les blocs 14 (20 %) et 14T (10 %).

Subscribers only Energy

Mozambique, Rwanda
EU to send €20m to support Rwandan war effort in Cabo Delgado

The European Union (EU) has just approved a €20m support plan for Kigali.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

North Africa

Morocco
Crown prince Moulay Hassan gets first taste of life in royal cabinet

Crown prince Moulay Hassan with his father, Moroccan King Mohammed VI, and his uncle Prince Moulay Rachid (right). © AFP/Moroccan National Press Agency

Mohammed VI's 19-year-old son now has his own office in the royal palace, where, in the absence of his father, who has been in France for several months, he is familiarising himself with the mysteries of government.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Libya
New Libyan defence attaché Gibril Shtiwi Mohamed finds his feet in Paris

The Libyan embassy in Paris has welcomed a new member of staff, defence attaché General Gibril Shtewi Mohamed, a veteran politician with a non-partisan reputation.

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