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Central Africa
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Spotlight | Mozambique
ExxonMobil turns cold on Rovuma LNG but ENI keeps going

In a context of insecurity and low hydrocarbon prices, it remains unclear when US major ExxonMobil will finally decide to launch its giant LNG project in Mozambique, even though its Italian partner ENI is moving ahead.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Cameroon
Biya and SNH pin recovery hopes on gas fields

SNH's gaz production ambitions. © Africa Intelligence/Indigo Publications 2020

Hit hard by a health crisis that is expected to slash GDP by 3.5 percentage points, Cameroon is desperately clinging to its gas prospects to rescue the economy.

Subscribers only Energy

DRC
DP World to return to Banana port negotiating table with Tshisekedi

The deepwater Banana port project, bogged down for months by the Covid-19 pandemic and tensions between President Félix Tshisekedi and ministers loyal to his predecessor Joseph Kabila, now looks like it might move forward by the end of the year.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics

Gabon
A second Bongo heir enters the presidency

Bilal Bongo, Gabonese President Ali Bongo's third son, interrupted his studies in the United Kingdom to join the force responsible for the security of his father's seaside palace residence and of the presidential staff.

Subscribers only Politics

DRC
Between Tshisekedi and Kabila, France's diplomatic juggling act

Felix Tshisekedi (left) and Joseph Kabila, during their handover in January 2019. © Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

With the rift between President Tshisekedi and his predecessor Kabila wide open, Paris does not want to see the former head of state entirely cast aside while Washington would be happy for him to disappear into the background.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Kenyatta pulls the plug on Centum and Rubis' Lamu power project

The Kenyan authorities have decided to put an end to the 1,050-MW Lamu power project led by Centum Investment and French firm Rubis now that its main financial backer, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, has left.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Ethiopia
Redwan Hussein, the voice of Addis during Tigray conflict

Redwan Hussein was appointed as the spokesman for the Ethiopian army's intervention force in Tigray in early November © Tiksa Negeri/Reuters

The central government's state of emergency spokesman is a defector from the former administration dominated by Tigray officials who is well versed in crisis propaganda.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Malawi, South Africa
Shepherd Bushiri: the mining interests of a fallen prophet

Pastor Shepherd Bushiri, founder of Enlightened Christian Gathering Church. © Enlightened Christian Gathering Church

Facing multiple charges in South Africa, the millionaire pastor Shepherd Bushiri has developed a taste for mining investments far beyond his native Malawi.

Subscribers only Mining

Botswana, Namibia
Geingob and Masisi's diplomatic manoeuvres to diffuse border tensions

Zambezi-Chobe confluence border region. © Africa Intelligence - Indigo Publications - 2020

Both Namibia's and Botswana's heads of state like to present themselves as a model for regional cooperation but a burgeoning bilateral crisis is undermining that reputation. So far SADC has kept quiet, even when the Botswana army fatally shot three Namibian civilians in an antipoaching operation.

Free access Diplomacy

Zambia
ZCCM-IH hires eyes and ears to watch Glencore, First Quantum & cie

Zambia's state mining company ZCCM-IH has begun recruiting people to represent it on the boards of directors of joint ventures in which it is a shareholder. Some of the firms are jointly run by foreign companies with which it has fraught relations.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Libya
Turkey makes overtures to southern Libya tribes

Fezzan has become a major key to the Libyan conflict and Turkey, via an NGO, is trying to make contact with the tribes that control the southern region.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Tunisia
The Hague rejects ex-police chief Kamel Guizani as ambassador

Kamel Guizani, former head of the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) may be rejected by the Netherlands as Tunisia's new ambassador because of his involvement in the case of the detained researcher Moncef Kartas.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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