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Spotlight | Qatar, Rwanda
Kigali aspires to become home to QIA's Africa fund

Rwanda Finance CEO Nick Barigye with Qatar Financial Centre CEO Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida. © @QFCAuthority/Twitter

Qatar Airways is already active in Rwanda, and Doha is now considering basing its Africa fund there after first studying the Ivorian option.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Central Africa

DRC
Israel's Delek Drilling shows interest in Lake Albert permits once owned by Dan Gertler

The blocks, which were held until recently by businessman Dan Gertler have awakened the appetites of several oil companies with money to spend. A takeover by Israel's Delek Drilling would fit in neatly, however, with the company's diversification strategy.

Free access Energy

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Téné Birahima Ouattara opts for US firm Score Technologies over Thales for border surveillance

Ivory Coast defense minister Téné Birahima Ouattara. © Legnan Koula/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The Ivorian defence minister recently awarded a $25m contract to the US firm Score Technologies to monitor the northern border of Ivory Coast in order to prevent attacks by armed groups. A setback for France's Thales, and a decision that was encouraged by Lacina Koné, Ouattara's former adviser on new technologies.

Subscribers only Defence

Ivory Coast
Karpowership pips Aggreko to power station contract

The Ivorian government has opted for the offshore solution of the Turkish firm Karpowership over the onshore power plant option proposed by the UK's Aggreko.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa
Sinohydro expands in West Africa with help of ex-president's godson Jean-Claude Soumah

The Chinese construction giant, already well-entrenched in Ivory Coast, is gaining a foothold in Burkina Faso with help from Arnaud Jean-Claude Soumah, the godson of the late Ivorian founding president Félix Houphouët-Boigny.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Mali
MINUSMA commander Dennis Gyllensporre to step down

Swedish General Dennis Gyllensporre will step down from his role as force commander of MINUSMA in 2022. He was appointed in 2018 after Belgian General Jean-Paul Deconinck.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Rwanda
Kagame to get prized coltan refinery by the New Year

Power Resources' first coltan refinery in Kigali has entered its final construction phase. The plant will turn Rwanda into a key global supplier of this strategic mineral used in the telephone and electronics industries.

Subscribers only Mining

Kenya
Gideon Moi prepares Kenyatta's last government

Gideon Moi, son of former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi. © Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Gideon Moi, the chief presidential campaign backer of Uhuru Kenyatta's protégé Raila Odinga, has deployed his sidekick Nick Salat to sound out potential members of the government that will run the country until next August's elections.

Subscribers only Politics

Ethiopia, United States
Pro-Abiy diaspora mobilises clerics to lobby Congress

While the White House was publishing an executive order paving the way for sanctions against Ethiopia's warning parties, 11 US-based Ethiopian Orthodox archbishops arrived in Washington to champion the cause of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Sipromad seeks to reboot GS Airlines

Inauguration of the GS Airlines route on 13 January 2020. © Sipromad

Halted in its tracks in March 2020 just three months after its launch by Covid-19, Ylias Akbaraly's GS Airlines is preparing for a fresh start.

Subscribers only Business

Botswana
Gaborone hopes to cash in on uranium by wooing IAEA in Vienna

Botswana may have the largest uranium reserves in Africa, but many obstacles stand in the way of its ambition to produce yellowcake. The lack of an appropriate legal framework is one of them. The country's science minister used a visit to the IAEA to try to boost cooperation between his country and the organisation to get the country on the road to producing the prized ore.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Tunisia
Former French ambassador Olivier Poivre d'Arvor at helm of Bizerte maritime forum

Former French ambassador in Tunis Olivier Poivre d'Arvor. © Thomas Padilla/MaxPPP

France's former ambassador to Tunisia is continuing to take a keen interest in the Forum mondial de la mer being organised by his friend Rym Benzina.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Morocco
Nabila Rmili's election as Casablanca mayor will delight property developers

Casablanca's powerful real estate sector is unlikely to be perturbed by the election of Nabila Rmili as the city's mayor. She got the job following an agreement between her RNI party, PAM and Istiqlal.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

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