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Spotlight | Mozambique
FRELIMO presidential candidate cosies up to Kagame

FRELIMO candidate Daniel Chapo at a meeting in Niassa province, July 2024. © X/@daniel_chapo24

Daniel Chapo, the frontrunner in next month's presidential election in Mozambique, paid an unpublicised visit to Kigali in June where he met Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who has become the key patron of security in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Chad
Telecoms: N-Soft wins another round against N'Djamena to recover €25m

The Paris Court of Appeal has cleared the way for telecoms company N-Soft to apply for exequatur in its dispute with N'Djamena, paving the way for the firm to take over the Chadian government's assets to cover the debt's payment.

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West Africa

Guinea
Simandou mega-project: change of communications team

Forward Global's communications arm 35°Nord lost its contract with Winning Consortium Simandou in late September.

Subscribers only Mining

Africa
Brazilian president eager to meet African leaders on UN assembly sidelines

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is currently in New York City to attend the UN General Assembly, which begins on 24 September, and is eager to meet with his African counterparts.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Eritrea
Khartoum's relocated ambassadors struggle to cope

Several embassies that covered Eritrea from the Sudanese capital have had to take refuge in Ethiopia since the start of the civil war more than a year ago. But the historical rivalry and growing tensions between Addis Ababa and Asmara are complicating their task.

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Sudan
Burhan plays for time before US election

Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Beijing, China, 3 September 2024. © Florence Lo/Pool/AFP

Following the failure of mediation in Geneva, and as the United States gets closer to its presidential election, the war in Sudan is intensifying. The head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is seeking to take advantage of the situation.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Pretoria in fight to get off Financial Action Task Force grey list by June 2025

South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in Cape Town, South Africa, 21 February 2024. © Xabiso Mkhabela/Xinhua/Newscom/MaxPPP

A further delay is looming for the South African administration, which is unlikely to meet its target of being removed from the list of countries insufficiently committed to combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism by the middle of next year.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy

North Africa

Tunisia
Tunis tightens its grip on financial intelligence

The president's crusade against organisations that receive foreign funding led to the arrest of the secretary general of the Tunisian Financial Analysis Committee and the seizure of foreign data from its offices.

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Morocco
GE and Mitsubishi in the running for Al Wahda gas plant

GE and Mitsubishi are neck and neck to win a giant contract to build a gas plant in Al Wahda for the Moroccan power distribution bureau.

Subscribers only Energy

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