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Spotlight | Libya
New UN election roadmap makes space for Dabaiba and Haftar but not Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Libya Stephanie Williams with presidential candidates Abdelhamid Dabaiba (top) and Khalifa Haftar (bottom). © @SASGonLibya/Twitter

To avoid the return of a parallel government in eastern Libya and ending up back at square one, the UN diplomat Stephanie Williams is on a final round of mediation efforts to save "her" peace process.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

DRC
Shanghai stock exchange sanctions Pengxin over DRC copper transactions

The Chinese mining firm and its directors are facing the threat of 900,000 yuan in fines from the Shanghai securities watchdog over the failure to properly disclose copper purchases and sales in the DRC.

Subscribers only Mining

Chad
Trouble brewing over €250,000 seized from Deby clan by French customs

Chad's authorities are desperately trying to get their hands on €250,000 in cash seized by French customs at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport near Paris on 27 November from the wife of a prominent general related to Idriss Déby, the late father of Chad's leader.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Niger
Bazoum finally assembles oil team in his own image

Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum and Oil and energy minister Mahamane Sani Mahamadou. © @SaniMhm/Twitter

Senior figures in the entourage of President Mohamed Bazoum and his oil minister who have the ability to influence decision-making on hydrocarbons can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics

Mali
German army to deploy CH-53 helicopters to Gao next summer

Germany's MINUSMA contingents stationed in Gao will be taking delivery of several heavy-lift transport helicopters, thereby reducing their reliance on private contractors and affording Berlin more flexibility to follow its own path in this troubled region.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Nigeria
Arbitration between ENI and Abuja on OPL 245 already on hold

The arbitral tribunal constituted in July 2021 to rule in the dispute between ENI and the Nigerian state in the "Malabu case" has been stopped its tracks. On 8 Dec, Nigeria filed a motion to disqualify one of the tribunal's three arbitrators.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
Tunisian ex-minister Slim Feriani takes over sovereign fund

Slim Feriani, new head of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Djibouti (SDF). © Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters

Tunisian politician Slim Feriani will replace Mamadou Mbaye, dismissed in May following numerous disagreements with certain members of FSD's board.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Tanzania
Billionnaire Rostam Aziz buys himself chunk of Williamson Diamond Mine

After buying Tanzania's biggest coal mine in November, the powerful businessman Rostam Aziz has chosen diamonds for December.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Morocco
Would-be foreign affairs number two Mounia Boucetta forced to bide time at OCP

The former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Mounia Boucetta. © @MarocDiplomatie/Twitter

Head of diplomacy Nasser Bourita is opposed to the appointment of Mounia Boucetta as secretary-general of his ministry, which was endorsed over a year ago by the king's political adviser, Fouad Ali El Himma.

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Africa, Egypt
Abbas Kamel, Sisi's spymaster and chief diplomat

Director of Egyptian General Intelligence Abbas Kamel in May 2021. © Ashraf Amra/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP

Kamel, Egypt's intelligence chief and adviser to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has in the past two months presided over the Arab Intelligence Forum and the Committee on Intelligence and Security Services in Africa (CISSA). He wants to transform them into diplomatic instruments at the service of Egypt.

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Algeria, Sahel
Foreign minister Lamamra already reshuffling his Sahel team

The head of Algerian diplomacy, Ramtane Lamamra, is shortly due to appoint a new special envoy for the Sahel. Since this summer the post has been occupied by Boudjemaa Delmi, a very close friend of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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