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Spotlight | West Africa
As he steers Endeavour to London flotation, Sébastien de Montessus faces legal headwinds in Paris

Sébastien de Montessus, CEO of Endeavour Mining. © Endeavour Mining

After buying Semafo and deciding to merge with Teranga, Endeavour Mining is preparing to list on the London Stock Exchange. At the same time, the French courts have resumed their probe into several operations carried out by CEO Sébastien de Montessus while he was working at Areva.

Subscribers only Mining

Central Africa

Gabon
Marathon Oil yet to pay Tchicuate block fine in full

Oil states are increasingly imposing fines on companies that flout work schedules. Do such penalties still need to be paid?

Subscribers only Energy

Congo
Nguesso clan loses $2.4m Florida penthouse for good

The court of the Southern District of Florida has authorised the sale of former SNPC downstream director Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso's luxury Miami apartment, seized in June.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics

West Africa

Sierra Leone
Beny Steinmetz's former right-hand man moves forward with Van Rooyen dynasty on Meya diamond mine

Trustco, owned by the Namibian Van Rooyen family, is in talks over $86m in funding to explore a diamond mine in Sierra Leone, a country where Jan Joubert, head of resources, used to work for BSGR.

Subscribers only Mining

Nigeria, United Kingdom
Cobham Aviation takes centre stage in London-Abuja military cooperation

Nigerian pilots trained by Cobham Aviation Services. © Nigerian Air Force

By training Nigerian Air Force helicopter crews, Cobham Aviation helps deliver the UK's military support to its African ally.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Africa
Meridiam prepares its new fund for Africa

Meridiam is putting together its next fund for Africa, which has to be approved by the financial markets authority (AMF) by the end of the year.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance, Business

Africa, France
Macron postpones southern Africa trip until next year

French President Emmanuel Macron received his Angolan counterpart João Lourenço in Paris in May 2018. © PHILIPPE WOJAZER/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Angola and South Africa, initially scheduled for December, is now set to take place in the first quarter of next year.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Kenya's treasury refuses to pay for constitutional referendum

Kenyatta's main financial advisers and treasury secretary Ukur Yatani Kanacho reckon the state cannot bear the cost of his and Raila Odinga's constitutional referendum.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

In Focus | Madagascar
Madagascar's luxury golf courses offer a fairway to power

The Golf Club du Rova hosted the final stage of the Staysure Tour in 2019. © Madagascar National Tourism Board/Twitter

Unlike in the rest of Africa, where golf is often seen as a leftover from the colonial period, Madagascar's political and business elites like to meet up over a round of golf. Andry Rajoelina's government has taken advantage of this parallel power structure to build up a solid support network.

Subscribers only Politics

Angola, UAE
Luanda left over a barrel as DP World steams to port victory

President Lourenço would have preferred a shipping company to take on Luanda's multipurpose terminal rather than DP World. But it finally resigned itself to choosing the Dubai-based port operator, which spared no expense to win its first major contract in southern Africa.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy

North Africa

Algeria
Air Arabia conducts market research, from Algiers to Tamanrasset

Budget UAE airline Air Arabia is sounding out the Algerian domestic market despite the uncertainty surrounding privatisation.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Morocco
Tomato giant Tazi snaps up former agri-exports boss Abir Lemseffer

One of the agriculture ministry's top civil servants for over a decade, Abir Lemseffer now works for Mohamed Tazi's agri-industrial empire.

Subscribers only Business

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