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Spotlight | Rwanda
Qatar Airways' $2bn for Kigali airport build lures Turkish and Qatari groups alike

The Kigali (Rwanda) airport project was initially awarded to Mota-Engil in 2016. © Aéroport international de Kigali

The airline's huge investment in the construction of the future Kigali airport, the largest ever made by Qatar in Africa, is turning heads in Istanbul. Qatar Airways has launched a call for tenders for which it should announce the winner within a few weeks.

Free access Infrastructure, Business

Central Africa

DRC
Kinshasa hiring US lobbyists left and right

Already a Washington favourite, Félix Tshisekedi wants to cement ties with the Biden administration but also with Republicans in Congress. His Minister of Communication has signed on two lobbying firms, one on each side of the poitical divide.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Gabon
Ali Bongo prepares blitz of ambassadorial appointments

Gabonese President Ali Bongo. © Ali Bongo Ondimba/Twitter

A dozen Gabonese diplomatic missions, including Washington, Berlin and Pretoria, are currently without ambassadors, but President Bongo is planning a swathe of appointments to fill the vacancies.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Senegal
Turkey key ally in Casamance military operations

The large-scale military operations carried out over the past two weeks by Senegalese soldiers on the Gambian border against the MFDC separatists have benefited from the strategic alliance between Turkey and Senegal.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Guinea
Guinean iron ore boom could rekindle mothballed Bellzone project

Bellzone's liquidators are seeking buyers for the company's Guinean iron ore project Kalia, which has been sitting idle for years.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
TotalEnergies rolls out ambitious local hiring plan for Tilenga

French major TotalEnergies has launched a large-scale process for selecting and training its local workforce in Uganda, completing its first phase in March.

Subscribers only Energy

Uganda
Museveni's NRM torn apart by battle for deceased speaker's chair

The late Ugandan speaker Jacob Oulanyah. © 2020 Images/Alamy

The shock wave created by the death of parliamentary speaker Jacob Oulanyah has revived splits that go beyond the usual political rivalries. The battle to replace him has started, endangering the fragile balance of power in the ruling party.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Somalia
PM Roble pushed by his entourage to run for president

He has sworn to President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known as "Farmajo", that he will not run for president. However, Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble might be tempted to make the move.

Subscribers only Politics

Egypt, Sudan
UN envoy Volker Perthes expecting frosty reception in Cairo

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) in Sudan, Volker Perthes, is due to meet with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo this week.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Lesotho
Mining magnate Sam Matekane launches his political career

Sam Matekane, owner of the Matekane Group of Companies. © @matekanegroup.co.ls/Facebook

Sam Matekane, a partner in Gem Diamonds' lucrative Lets'eng diamond mine and who is reputed to be the richest man in the Kingdom of Lesotho, is now entering politics, with an eye on the premiership in this October's elections.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Africa
Arab League's African members seek impossible consensus on Ukraine

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the Arab League. © Arab League/Twitter

Split in its response to the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the Arab League has quietly set up a small task force to address the issue. This will be no easy task for the team primarily comprised of African members of the league.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Morocco
Palace pals look for cybersecurity partners in Israel

Moroccan cybersecurity experts Cyberforce and Alomra Group International, owned by members of Mohammed VI's inner circle, took part in Morocco's first trade mission to Israel in March.

Subscribers only Business

Tunisia
Pécresse's Tunisian campaign to involve ex-comms specialist of former President Marzouki

The Les Républicains (LR) party's French presidential election candidate, Valérie Pécresse, has hired a PR agency, Compol Prod, to conduct her campaign in Tunisia and share her policies with the 500,000 or so dual-nationals and 30,000 French people living in the country.

Subscribers only Politics

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