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Spotlight | Ethiopia
Abiy and Sisi spar over GERD in Washington through opposing lobbyists

Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed with President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. © STR/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

Addis Ababa has followed in Cairo's footsteps and hired a US lobbying heavyweight. Worried his Egyptian rival will take the lead in the Grand Renaissance dam debate and concerned about his declining reputation over the Tigray conflict, the Ethiopian prime minister is working institutions, diplomats, and the media.

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Central Africa

Gabon
Ali Bongo sends his former tutor to the Vatican

The head of state is a practising Muslim but has always been at pains to show he cares about the other religions in his country. The latest display of this diplomatic-spiritual prudence was the appointment of a Frenchman, who was one of his tutors in the 1970s, to represent Gabon at the Holy See.

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DRC
Tony Blair Institute helps PM Lukonde sharpen his economic strategy

British former prime minister Tony Blair. © REUTERS/Mike Blake

The former British prime minister Tony Blair's institute is preparing a report for the Congolese presidency to help guide the main economic policy of Sama Lukonde's future government.

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Cameroon, Chad
Biya poised to buy Chadian oil pipeline stake as Deby battles with economic crisis

The Chad-Cameroon pipeline, which connects the Doba oil fields to the port of Kribi. © Panapress/MaxPPP

The Chadian government, which is mired in debt and badly affected by the Covid-19 crisis, wants to speed up the sale of part of its shares in the COTCO oil pipeline to Cameroonian state-owned oil company SNH.

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Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria
Nigerian minister Sylva scolds defiant African OPEC members

Equatorial Guinea's Hydrocarbons Minister Gabriel Obiang Lima and OPEC envoy Timipre Sylva, 18 February 2021. © Ministry of Mines and Hidrocarbons of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea/Twitter

At the request of Saudi Arabia and Russia, leaders of the Vienna-based organisation want to force Brazzaville and Libreville to comply with OPEC rules and have instructed Nigeria to pull the uncooperative members back into line.

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West Africa

Africa, United States
Linda Thomas-Greenfield appoints her Africa team at the UN

The new US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. © Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

New US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who was previously Barack Obama's assistant secretary of state for African affairs, has begun gathering around her Africa specialists she has already worked with.

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Guinea
Feasibility studies approved for Santou and Houda, making SMB's railway look all the more profitable

SMB's Boffa-Boké Bauxite Project © Africa Intelligence/Indigo Publications 2021

Guinean authorities approved the feasibility study to mine bauxite on the Santou II and Houda blocks early January. SMB is currently building a railway to use for export.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining

Mauritania
Vinci, Mota-Engil, Power China jockey for SNIM iron tender

Thirty-six firms, among them major European and Chinese players, have experssd interest in tenders by Mauritania's Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM) to carry out the earthworks for three new iron deposits.

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Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
With no ambassadors in place, who is holding the fort at Rajoelina's key embassies?

Two years into his presidency, Andry Rajoelina has still not filled some the most important diplomatic appointments, leaving Madagascar without an ambassador to the US, the UN, or South Africa.

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Zimbabwe
Grain Trading Co surfs on Mnangagwa's agricultural strategy

Two businessmen with a longstanding presence in Harare's agricultural trading community have launched a grain import-export company based in Mauritius to target the Zimbabwean market. They are seeking to take advantage of a booming sector, driven by President Mnangagwa's plans to improve the security of the country's food supplies.

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Mauritius
Warner Music settles in Mauritius to market Punjab hits

The American entertainment colossus Warner Music decided to create a base in Mauritius' financial centre at the end of February in order to enter the Indian market, partnering with South African firm Ziiki Media.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

North Africa

Tunisia
Delays on e-government project mount up

The ministry of technologies has not be able to find a contractor to build the inter-operability platform key to the government digitisation progamme dubbed "Tunisie digitale 2020", now well behind schedule.

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Morocco
Cegelec to connect Western Sahara's Laâyoune to extra-high voltage grid

The national electricity board has commissioned Cegelec, a subsidiary of French group Vinci, to connect Laâyoune in Western Sahara to the national grid. This line will be used to offload electricity from the Sahrawi power plants of Mohammed VI's company Nareva.

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