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Spotlight | East Africa
Raila Odinga aiming to become Horn of Africa's peace champion

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga in the UK on 15 March 2022, here with UK Defence Secretary James Heappey (left). © Raila Odinga/Twitter

Back in Kenya after a week in the UK, presidential candidate Raila Odinga has been giving attention to his foreign policy credentials. To attract the favours of the West, he has highlighted Kenya's role as a peacemaker in the Horn of Africa, a region riven by civil wars and political crises.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Central African Republic
Paris and Bangui continue to quarrel despite the release of four French soldiers from custody

Nearly a month after the arrest and the release of four French soldiers, Paris and Bangui are now arguing over the accommodation made available for French military cooperation personnel in the capital.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Gabon
Gabonese presidency discreetly employing British adviser Dominic Sudnik

While waiting for the third and final report from the Commonwealth's inspection mission, Gabon is continuing to develop its British tropism.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

West Africa
After Friedland, Salle-Audet duo's projects spark interest of Sawiris and Eramet

Following on from Robert Friedland last year, Naguib Sawiris' La Mancha has just invested in a West Africa project of Canadian miners Benoît La Salle and Marc-Antoine Audet. French group Eramet also has its eye on a Guinean area the pair know well.

Subscribers only Mining

Guinea
In Paris and Brussels, opposition leaders try to ply pressure on junta

Guinean opposition leaders Cellou Dalein Diallo (left) and Sidya Touré. © Cellou Dalein Diallo/Sidya Touré/Twitter

Opposition leaders Cellou Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré each made separate trips to Europe last week to make their voices heard and garner support for their efforts aiming to influence the transition process initiated by the junta in Guinea.

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Nigeria
Nigeria cannot claim sovereign immunity to escape P&ID's $10bn legal action

On 11 March, the Columbia district Court of Appeals rejected Nigeria's claim to "sovereign immunity" from the legal action brought against it in the United States by Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID).

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

DRC, Uganda, United States
US Treasury unlikely to let Alain Goetz's Aldabra off hook over gold trafficking allegations

Although it has not been put on the sanctions list drawn up by the US Treasury, Alain Goetz's UAE company Aldabra is unlikely to escape punitive action by the US. The US sanctions have also put Uganda, where his African Gold Refinery is based, in a difficult position.

Subscribers only Mining

Ethiopia
Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch prompts Abiy's adviser, Daniel Kibret's ire

Abune Mathias, patriarch of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church. © Eduardo Soteras/AFP

Spiritual leader Abune Mathias spoke out last week to openly criticise the Ethiopian government's role in the war. A rare occurence, which caused uproar among Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali's entourage.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
China's Jinchuan Group determined to finalise Bakubung platinum mine facilites

View of Bakubung mining plant. © www.wesizwe.co.za

For over a decade Wesizwe Platinum has been tipped as the next newcomer to South African platinum, but is currently working to reassure its investors. The company, majority owned by Chinese state-owned firm Jinchuan, is facing backlash from local communities.

Subscribers only Mining

France, Madagascar
France dispatches Gen Thierry Marchand to revive sluggish security cooperation

General Thierry Marchand, with lieutenant-colonel Henry-Sébastien Dupety and defense minister general Richard Rakotonirina. © French Embassy in Madagascar

During his visit to Madagascar, the French director of security and defence cooperation tried to breathe new life into the partnership between the two countries. Maritime projects launched by the US and Japan are also moving at a slow pace.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

North Africa

Libya
Dabaiba takes a long shot with Tripoli's Al-Ahli football team to score political points

Libyan head of government Abdelhamid Dabaiba (right), in front of the presidential plane. © @GovernmentLY/Twitter

Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba sent the government fleet's VIP Airbus A340, usually reserved for his official trips, to pick up the Tripolitan team in Lusaka, where they were playing a CAF Cup qualifying match.

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Morocco
Hassan Sentissi el-Idrissi, Morocco's chief fish lobbyist in Brussels

Morocco's powerful fish lobby FENIP is now operating in Brussels. Six months after an EU court ruled to exclude Western Sahara from EU-Morocco fisheries agreements, the lobby's president Hassan Sentissi el-Idrissi is on an exports drive.

Subscribers only Business

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