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Spotlight | Libya
Trasta Energy and Libya choose their arbitratrors for battle royale over Ras Lanuf refinery

Trasta, which was briefly the operator of the Ras Lanuf refinery, the Emirates' principal asset in Libya, has accused Tripoli of having failed to adequately protect the refinery. The case is to go to arbitration and the two sides have now chosen their arbitrators.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Mali, Senegal, United States
Culmen aims high for MINUSMA logistics and training contract

Des casques bleus de la Minusma, dans la région de Tombouctou. © Nicolas Remene/Le Pictorium/MaxPPP

The US Department of State will be entrusting the logistics of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali to private American operators.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Guinea
Conakry plans to take minimal stake in Lola graphite project

State-owned Guinean mining company Soguipami analysed SRG Mining's performance on the Toronto stock exchange before deciding whether or not to take a stake in the company developing the Lola graphite mining project.

Subscribers only Mining

Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara awaits Pope Francois' crucial choice for Ivory Coast's next cardinal

Alassane Ouattara and Apostolic Nuncio Paolo Borgia during the unveiling ceremony of the commemorative stamp of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ivory Coast and the Vatican. © Ivory Coast Presidency Ivory Coast Presidency

The Ivorian president has come in for criticism from Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa for deciding to run for a third term in office. With Kutwa due to retire as cardinal next year, Ouattara is worrying that Pope Françis may name an even more outspoken prelate in his place.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ivory Coast
French banks lose out on cocoa business

The Conseil Café Cacao (CCC) is no longer holding its revenues with the Ivorian branches of French banks, preferring instead to use African establishments as a matter of course.

Subscribers only Finance, Commodity traders, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Kenyatta gives Tullow oil more time to deliver in Turkana

Nairobi has extended Tullow Oil's Turkana production permit by 15 months.

Subscribers only Energy

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Washington highlights child labour in mica mines to strike blow against Beijing

The Trump administration is financing a project to tackle child labour in Madagascar's mica mines, confronting Beijing, the main buyer of the mineral, on a sensitive human rights issue.

Subscribers only Mining

Russia, Seychelles
Son of Russian sunflower oil oligarch Sergei Kislov appointed Seychelles honorary consul in Moscow

The Seychelles government has created a new made-to-measure diplomatic post for Dmitry Sergeyevitch Kislov, the son of the billionaire Sergei Kislov who made his fortune in sunflower oil production and grain export in Russia.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

Madagascar
Rajoelina appoints advisor as head of his Covid remedy laboratory

President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina. © STR/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Gambling his international image on the properties of the anti-Covid infusion that he has been promoting relentlessly, Andry Rajoelina has parachuted an ally, Holijaona Raboana, in as head of Pharmalagasy, the laboratory that will make the miracle product.

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

Morocco
SouthBridge A&I takes on lobbying role to bring AU's Centre for Disease Control to Morocco

Hassan Beklhayat's strategic consulting firm has no lobbying experience but has been hired to help Rabat convince Africa CDC to move its headquarters to Morocco. The firm may receive a hand from its partner, Lionel Zinzou and Donald Kaberuka's Southbridge Group.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Algeria, Egypt
Presidential spokesman Belaid Mohand-Oussaid tipped as Cairo ambassador

If he inherits the Cairo ambassador post, the ex-diplomat and current spokesman for President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will have to tread a fine line, with Egypt and Algeria at loggerheads over the situation in Libya.

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