Investigations into the wealth management company Helin International have revealed details of the beneficiaries of operations by the French state-owned nuclear firm Areva in Niger in 2011. US authorities have identified a regular contractor of the US State Department, which appears to be at the heart of the Areva affair.
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The DRC government has initiated discussions over the erstwhile rail connection, which is a crucial corridor for conveying shipping containers to the Congolese capital.
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Infrastructure The arbitration procedure launched by Petronas and ExxonMobil against Cameroon has been suspended for two months after Yaoundé's lawyer, Gill Dingome, sought the recusal of the oil firm's chosen arbitrator Thomas Clay.
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Business Discussions were held in March between Orange's Africa and Middle East branch and Libreville on the award of a new licence for the French telecommunications company in Gabon.
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The granting of a Guinean diplomatic passport to the new Nigerian president by Alpha Condé in 2015 recently attracted widespread attention on social media in Nigeria, but behind this gesture lies a little-known business relationship forged between the two men over the last decade.
Azali Assoumani, the Comorian president and current chair of the African Union, is set to visit Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea in the course of May to set in train mediation for the three states to rejoin the pan-African organisation.
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After many attempts at mediation, the war of words between the Oromo Liberation Army and the Ethiopian federal government has finally calmed down, opening the door to an outline of dialogue. But the process is still very fragile.
The Portuguese-Angolan construction group Omatapalo has won billions of euros worth of state contracts with the help of its connections within the ruling party.
Essentially inactive since its creation, Algeria's international cooperation agency now has a new director in retired general Abed Halouze and a billion-dollar budget.
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Diplomacy Nommé en février, le nouveau ministre tunisien des affaires étrangères, Nabil Ammar, impose peu à peu à sa marque. Sans bruit, il a limogé mi-mars le directeur général pour l'Europe, l'Union européenne et la Méditerranée du ministère, Khalil Tazarki.
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