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TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné in Paris on 8 January 2024.

Spotlight | Mozambique
TotalEnergies pleads with US EXIM Bank to release promised Mozambique LNG funding

The French major's senior management team, led by Patrick Pouyanné, is having nightmares over the financing of the two gas liquefaction trains it is having built on the Afungi Peninsula plant. Some lenders, including the US's EXIM Bank, still fear that security issues could endanger the colossal €20bn project.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Central African Republic
US and Russia clash at UN Security Council over Bangui's overflight ban

The meeting that followed the UN Security Council presentation of MINUSCA's most recent situation report on the Central African Republic revealed tensions concerning the overflight ban imposed by the country.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

West Africa

Guinea
Rio Tinto puts finishing touches to Simandou mining project

The UK-Australian giant has been busy selecting subcontractors and discussing the sale price of iron with its Chinese buyers as it awaits its partner Chinalco's financial commitment to the project, hopefully in March. Rio Tinto has also been in talks with the Guinean junta.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa
Institut Choiseul to ramp up Africa presence

The French think-tank Institut Choiseul has been active in Africa since 2014 and now plans to increase its presence in 2024. This March, it will launch a club specifically dedicated to the continent.

Subscribers only Finance

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenyan president William Ruto in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 13 February 2024.

Kenya
Ruto in open conflict with Nation Media Group

Kenya's leading media group is facing a wave of targeted attacks on social networks, while the government is clipping its financial wings.

Subscribers only Politics

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, in Entebbe, Uganda, on 7 May 2022.

Uganda
Museveni's son forms new group to boost 2026 election chances

Muhoozi Kainerugaba is working to widen his support base ahead of the next presidential election. In response, Interior Minister Kahinda Otafiire is reorganising his own allies.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Quai d'Orsay to visit rapper Orelsan's Ony House and other projects

The head of the French foreign ministry's Directorate General of Globalisation (DGM), Aurélien Lechevallier, is expected in Madagascar in mid-March, where he will visit French rapper Orelsan's Ony House cultural project based in Antananarivo.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

North Africa

Algeria
Cevital CEO Malik Rebrab reshuffles management of agri-industrial subsidiary in Bejaia

The current MD of the agro-industrial plant in Bejaia may soon be replaced.

Subscribers only Business

The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné.

Morocco
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné's schedule for Rabat visit

The French minister is expected in the Moroccan capital on 25 February. The trip looks set to pave the way for a series of meetings between the two countries' leaders - with an economic focus for now.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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