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In Focus | Angola, South Africa
Bekker, Penny, Dos Santos... Russia's African partners kept at bay by war in Ukraine

Naspers' boss Koos Bekker, former CEO of De Beers Gareth Penny and Isabel Dos Santos, daughter of Angola's former President. © Naspers/Ninety One/Toby Melville/Reuters

Since Moscow began its military offensive in Ukraine, numerous southern African entrepreneurs have had to freeze their investment projects in Russia or leave their positions as directors of companies under sanctions. Being separated from these wealthy Africans has entrenched the dichotomy of Russia's presence on the continent: while Moscow's diplomats remain very influential, its corporations are losing their contacts one by one.

Subscribers only Business

West Africa

Burkina Faso
The who's who of the mining sector reform discussions

The future of Burkina Faso's mining sector is at the heart of discussions that began in April between the junta, the government, the Chamber of Mines and civil society. Veterans and newcomers to this industry, which is key to the country's GDP, are helping define and negotiate its framework.

Subscribers only Mining

France, Nigeria
French firm Prométhée set to launch 20 nanosatellites for Nigeria's space agency

Nigerian science minister Ogbonnaya Onu is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with the French company Prométhée in May, which is likely to lead to the purchase of 20 nanosatellites destined to contribute to counterterrorism and border security activities.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Niger
Ex-president Salou Djibo prepares his comeback

Salou Djibo, who once toppled Mamadou Tandja in a coup d'état, plans to return to Niger to get his political party back on its feet after several years working for ECOWAS in Abuja.

Subscribers only Politics

France, Ivory Coast, Switzerland
French tax investigators target pharma wholesalers over unpaid VAT

Operating between Geneva, Abidjan and the Parisian suburbs, Ivorian businessman Ahmadou Touré and other shareholders of pharmaceutical wholesalers Propharmed and Ressourcethica are battling in court to have the proceedings brought against them by the French tax authorities quashed.

Subscribers only Business

Ivory Coast
Ouattara makes key new appointments at his embassy in Paris

Following his appointment of a new consul general at the French embassy in Paris in February, Alassane Ouattara has promoted one of his generals as head of the military mission there.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
Museveni faces threat of costly arbitration with Yemeni firm over Owino Market

Owino Market in Kampala. © Sue OConnor/Alamy banque d'images

Yemeni businessman Abdulmajeed Qasem Othman Ahmed feels he has been wronged after a huge contract to renovate and expand Kampala's main market was cancelled. He is demanding $858m in compensation.

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Somalia
Somali's senate speaker election sets the stage for presidential poll

One day before the House of the People elects its speaker on 28 April, the Senate will do the same. Once both houses have their leader, the presidential election can begin.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Supreme Court confirms ex-SFF boss Gamede pocketed $1.5m from strategic reserve sale

Former head of the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) Sibusiso Gamede. © Angualia Busiku&Co. Advocates

The South African Supreme Court recently confirmed that former Strategic Fuel Fund boss Sibusiso Gamede pocketed $1.5m from a 2015 deal with trader Taleveras, which has since been cancelled.

Subscribers only Energy

Namibia
UN diplomats invest in mines

Founded in 2018 by Felix Tughuyendere and Emmericiana Dikuwa, both members of the UN permanent mission of Namibia in New York, Namibian Parabola Investments is waiting for its first exploration permit.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Libya
Oil blockade: how over-eager US shot itself in the foot

US Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland (l) with the head of the Libyan Central Bank, Al Seddik Omar al-Kabir, January 2022. © Central Bank of Libya/Twitter

In its hurry to get Libyan oil production on to a sure footing, the United States rushed through an arrangement intended to depoliticise management of the country's oil revenues. It forgot, however, about Khalifa Haftar, who responded by having two key oil fields shut down.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Morocco
EIB still committed to Masen-led Noor Atlas solar farm

A technical assistance contract has been put out to tender to speed up the implementation of seven photovoltaic plants located in the east of Morocco.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

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