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Spotlight | Mali
Wagner and junta close to deal to deploy 500 paramilitaries across Mali

The Malian junta and the Russian paramilitary company Wagner are close to an agreement that would provide for the deployment of 500 men in about ten localities. France, bitterly opposed to the arrival of Russian mercenaries, is due to hold a defence council on Mali at the Elysée on 22 December.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

DRC
Kinshasa's legal team in Dig Oil case takes surprise turn

American lawyer William Sanchez. © wsanchezlaw.com

Miami-based lawyer William Sanchez is now working with a new partner in Washington in his defence of the Congolese state in the Dig Oil case. But it is unclear why, and questions remain as to who exactly hired Sanchez in the first place.

Subscribers only Energy

Cameroon
Fecafoot election voters emerge from gilded cage

The election of the Fecafoot president, which received a lot of media attention, put unprecedented pressure on the 75 delegates, who are also company directors or senior civil servants, and for whom football is only a secondary activity.

Subscribers only Business

West Africa

Burkina Faso
In the face of terrorism, gold fraud fight gets back on track

In addition to reshuffling the government, Burkinabe President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is pushing other initiatives to curb the Islamic militant threat in his country. He has urged the National Anti-Gold Fraud Brigade to mobilise and become more effective.

Subscribers only Mining

Equatorial Guinea
Obiang's silence on re-election plans leaves son Teodorin in the lurch

The vice-president of Equatorial Guinea Teodorin Obiang Nguema, during the VIIth Congress of the PDGE. © Prensa PDGE/Twitter

Equatorial Guinea's vice-president is not well pleased. His father, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, failed to endorse him as his successor at a ruling party meeting last month. The 2023 presidential election looks set to be turbulent.

Subscribers only Politics

Ivory Coast
Northern military focus leaves coastline exposed

Abidjan's costly counter-insurgency operations in the north mean the government lacks the resources to protect its fisheries and offshore oilfields, much to the dismay of Thales and Mitrelli.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Ivory Coast
Ouattara opens Ivorian embassies' Pandora's Box

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. © Luc Gnago/Reuters

Following reports of major governance problems in more than ten of Ivory Coast's embassies, the Ivorian presidency is working on an extensive audit of its diplomatic representations abroad.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Africa
How MSC's Aponte family outbid CMA CGM's Saadé owners for Bolloré's African assets

Bolloré Ports' container terminal in Pointe-Noire (Congo). © Bolloré Ports

The announcement, on 20 December, that Bolloré had entered exclusive negotiations with the Italian-Swiss group MSC for the sale of its African port and logistics business came as a slap in the face for CMA CGM.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Kenyatta orders new management overhaul at troubled Kenya Power

The eternally cash-strapped Kenya Power is to undergo yet another management change. The new bosses will be tasked with getting the parastatal electricity distributor back on track in order to pay suppliers.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

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