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Spotlight | Morocco
French defence industry rallies to rekindle ties with Rabat

An Arquus armoured vehicle parading on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 14 July 2025. © Matthieu Douhaire/REA

Assisted by a well-connected consultant, French diplomats and companies are attempting to present solutions that could increase investment in the kingdom in the long term.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Central Africa

Africa
IMF searches for new Africa director

The Bretton Woods institution has formally opened the selection process for a new director of its African department, following the departure of Ethiopian economist Abebe Aemro Selassie, who served in the role for ten years.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa
UN chief appoints interim envoy

Gabonese diplomat Parfait Onanga-Anyanga has been acting as interim head of the UN Regional Office for Central Africa in Libreville since 23 February.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Nigeria
Anti-corruption watchdog fines TotalEnergies $126m

On an Akpo oil rig off Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 2009. © Denis/REA

The French major is challenging a penalty imposed by the anti-corruption commission in the Nigerian courts. The commission accuses it of failing to comply with its quota of expatriate workers.

Subscribers only Energy

Guinea
Rio Tinto in court over Conakry park dispute

Accused by a subcontractor of failing to comply with public procurement rules on an urban park construction site, the Anglo-Australian giant is being forced to defend itself before the CRIEF court for the suppression of economic and financial offences.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining

DRC, Ivory Coast
Macron also to meet with Ouattara and Tshisekedi in decidedly African week

French and Ivorian Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Alassane Ouattara at the 19th Francophonie summit at the Château de Villers-Cotterets, on 4 October 2024. © REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

The Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara is due to be received on Tuesday 24 February by Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace, the same day as the head of Madagascar's transitional government, Colonel Michaël Randrianirina. The following day the Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi is also scheduled to meet the French head of state.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Mombasa governor targeted for $130m contract

Several political and civic leaders in the coastal county have long demanded an inquiry into a public contract of unprecedented size for waste management in the country's second city. The Kenyan Senate is also examining the matter.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Macron-Randrianirina lunch meeting menu

Colonel Randrianirina during his visit to Moscow on 19 February 2026. © Alexander Zemlianichenko / POOL / AFP

Colonel Michaël Randrianirina is to visit with Emmanuel Macron on 24 February. The meeting aims to strengthen ties between the two countries and clarify broad lines of cooperation, as France seeks to consolidate its influence on the island.

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Mozambique
Washington dispatches envoy to Maputo

Responsible for economic and trade matters, US diplomat Sarah Troutman aims to press US economic interests ahead of important investment decisions by ExxonMobil.

Subscribers only Defence

North Africa

Morocco
Mohammed VI puts French château up for sale

The king of Morocco has decided to sell the castle he owns in the village of Betz, in the Oise region, located 70km from Paris.

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