Italian oil & gas giant ENI has won the first round in a battle against Drumcliffe Partners, Abuja's chosen litigation fund in the Malabu scandal.
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Energy 
Emirati group Ecolog was approached to challenge the Bolloré group for the contract to transport supplies to the French armed forces in the Sahel and Ivory Coast but, finally, failed to bid in time. It has nevertheless held on to its UN contract in Mali and is developing its business in South Sudan.
The PR agency 35°Nord, which specialises in Africa, will in the coming weeks open an office in Abidjan, which it will call 35°Ouest.
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Business Senegal's public procurement regulatory authority, the ARMP, dashed the hopes of local firm Société de travaux de commerce (Sotracom) of winning a contract to upgrade access roads to the Port Autonome de Dakar (PAD) on 30 September.
Despite being Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's leading collaborators, former intelligence chief Moussa Diawara and the deposed head of state's oldest son, Karim Keïta, have been able to slip quietly into exile. Africa Intelligence reveals their activities before and after IBK's fall from power and detail the ambiguous roles they played in the weeks leading up to the coup.
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Politics 
A state-funded support programme for Ethiopia's Ministry of Mines and Geological Survey has paved the way for Canadian juniors to request permits from Addis Ababa.
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Mining Kenyatta's candidate for the 2022 presidential elections has been losing his backers one by one as turn to support his rival, Deputy President William Ruto.
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Politics President Salva Kiir is purging the South Sudanese economy of the regime's powerful but unwelcome securocrats.
Switzerland's centralists and liberal parties are struggling to come up with a clear line on the popular Responsible Business Initiative that the country will be voting via referendum on 29 November.
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Mining 
The Central Bank of Libya governor has positioned his strongmen on the provisional board of the LFB, which handles all of NOC's petrodollars, as part of his power struggle against Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj.
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Business The giant American hotel group is to open a five-star Conrad hotel in the Arzana residential development owned by Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, adviser and brother of the crown prince of Abu Dhabi.
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Business wave of anxiety is sweeping through the corridors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Annassers plateau overlooking Algiers.
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Diplomacy 
