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Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
How the opposition got entangled in the Obiang family's Dallas-style war in Malabo

The legal action taken against the first lady's brother in Dubai has torn apart President Teodoro Obiang Nguema's family but also further weakened the opposition to the Equatorial Guinean regime. This is how it all happened.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

Cameroon
Adélaïde Ngalle-Miano, the shadow queen of Douala port

Cameroonian businesswoman Adélaïde Ngalle-Miano. © Adélaïde Ngalle-Miano/Facebook

A behind-the-scenes adviser to the director of Douala port, the Cameroonian businesswoman is the driving force behind the independent authority set up to take over from Bolloré.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

West Africa

In Focus | Guinea
Conakry seeks to make Monaco Resources go-to firm for bauxite trade

Loading of bauxite from CBG's Sangaredi mine. © Jean-Claude Moschetti/Réa

The Guinean government, pushing pooling in the mining sector to the extreme, is seeking to impose Monaco Resources as the go-to firm for marketing bauxite produced by firms less experienced in trading. The move comes as mining companies are experimenting with sharing capacity or infrastructure, an often fraught process.

Subscribers only Mining

Nigeria
Abba Kyari's favourite trader thrives in wake of his death

Matrix Energy's tight connections to the powers that be in Nigeria has allowed it to play a prominent role in the country's oil trading.

Subscribers only Energy

Liberia
Liberian ship registry and ex-promoter launch mutual discovery process in US court battle

The Liberian ship registry and the consulting company which it hired to promote it have jointly begun a discovery process in a US court in an attempt to prove that the other party is at fault.

Subscribers only Business

Africa
Qatar funds Accor's African hotels

The Sofitel Abidjan, in Ivory Coast, one of the hotels whose physical premises have been sold by AccorInvest to Kasada. © Sofitel Abidjan/Facebook

After thrashing out the deal for more than two years, French hotel giant Accor has transferred its African hotels to the Franco-Qatari Kasada investment fund. Financial entities based in Luxembourg, Mauritian and Qatar are involved.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Ivory Coast
Ouattara draws up cabinet shortlist

As the country gears up for legislative elections on March 6, there have been intense negotiations about who will be in the next government. The president has already pencilled in a few names.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
Omar Guelleh caught up in the queue to see President Macron

No date has yet been fixed for the visit to Paris planned by Djiboutian president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh for the end of January. According to our information, the French presidency is responsible for this delay.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Somalia
Humanitarian head-hunter CTG works with national police

CTG, which specialises in hiring project managers for humanitarian agencies, is increasing its presence in Somalia's security sector.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Dyck Advisory Group scales down activities but keeps its contract

Although it has put its activities on hold in recent months, the Dyck Advisory Group retains its contract to mentor the police in the face of the Cabo Delgado uprising.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Zambia
ZCCM-IH set to make a big splash in mining services

One of the ideas the Zambian state mining company ZCCM-Investments Holdings (ZCCM-IH) has in mind to increase its revenue by 2026 is to develop a mining supply chain.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Libya
Gaddafi's 'Air Force One' still stuck in France as EACS's technicians struggle to get visas

Libyan state-owned airline EACS is set to retake possession of the Airbus A340 which served as Muammar Gaddafi's presidential jet. The aircraft's return is being held up, however, by the unwillingness of the French embassy in Libya to issue visas for the company's technicians.

Subscribers only Business

Tunisia
Furuno supplies EU-funded radar kit to coast guard

The French subsidiary of the Japanese marine electronics giant has clinched a contract to kit out Tunisian coast guard vessels with surveillance systems that will strengthen the fight against irregular migration.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

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