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Spotlight | DRC
How Kinshasa rebalanced its strategic partnership with Washington

Félix Tshisekedi and Donald Trump in the White House's Oval Office after signing a partnership deal between the two countries in Washington, on 4 December 2025. © Daniel Torok / Avalon / Photshot / MaxPPP

Faced with an initial US proposal that was markedly one-sided and made no mention of security, a small team of Congolese negotiators had to fight for many months to rebalance the architecture of the agreement struck between the two countries.

Subscribers only Defence

Central Africa

Central African Republic
Chimbolo mining licence weakened by partners' dispute

What with criminal charges against Franco-Turkish businessman Ali Sait Cinko, the creation of a new mining company, and an appeal to the head of state, the operating licence for the Chimbolo site has become the focus of internal tensions and power struggles.

Subscribers only Mining

DRC
Buenassa still banking on Washington to build its copper and cobalt refinery

Congolese businessman Eddy Kioni is pressing ahead to secure support from US institutions for his plan to build a plant in Lualaba province, estimated to cost $2bn.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa

Ghana
Accra resumes negotiations for purchase of Czech military aircraft

Aero Vodochody has just reactivated its contacts with the Ghanaian general staff in an attempt to finalise the sale of L-39 aircraft. But it is now quoting a much higher price than the €111m initially stated.

Subscribers only Defence

West Africa
WAEMU's financial markets authority paralysed

The West African Economic and Monetary Union's capital‑markets regulator has been unable to convene its board.

Subscribers only Finance

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Army launches inquiry into soldiers' alleged abuses

Soldiers have been accused by Rift Valley residents of beating civilians and community leaders during the anti-banditry campaign launched in February 2023. Several people have called for the police to also be investigated.

Subscribers only Defence

Ethiopia
African Union's precarious position on Tigray's rising tensions

The African leaders meeting in mid-February in the Ethiopian capital, which hosts the HQ of the pan-African organisation, were careful to avoid the subject of the crisis in the north of the country.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Inner circle | Egypt
President Sisi's armada of new ambassadors

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (right) and his Foreign Secretary, Badr Abdelatty, during the Egypt-EU summit in Brussels, on 22 October 2025. © Simon Wohlfahrt / Pool / AFP

From Paris to Ankara, via Moscow, Abu Dhabi and Algiers, the Egyptian head of state has reshaped his country's diplomatic line-up in response to regional crises and shifting alliances.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Libya
The mysteries around the plane crash that claimed chief of staff's life

Turkish security forces secure the crash site near Kesikkavak, on 24 December 2025. © Reuters/Stringer

Since the accident on 23 December 2025 near Ankara involving an aircraft operated by the Maltese carrier Harmony Jets, the Turkish Investigation Centre's inquiry has yet to clear up the uncertainty surrounding its causes.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

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