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Spotlight | Egypt
General Atomics, CASC, Leonardo... Cairo casts net wide for combat drone consultations

Chinese drone CASC CH-5. © Long Wei/Featurechina/MaxPPP

To pursue its national defence industry plans, Egypt is preparing a new drone order with a key transfer of technology components and is looking at suppliers from the US, China and Italy.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Central Africa

DRC
Kinshasa calls on India to relaunch Grand Katende power station

Congolese authorities are trying to get the construction of the 64 MW Grand Katende hydroelectric power station, on hold since the Kamuina Nsapu insurrection in 2016, back on track.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics

DRC, United States
New York court battle over late star lawyer Emery Mukendi's legacy

The law firm Emery Mukendi has accused one of its partners, and creator of its website, of making free with the reputation of its late founder, a lawyer to the DRC government and numerous mining cases who succumbed to Covid-19 in 2020.

Subscribers only Mining, Business

West Africa

United Kingdom
Paul Arkwright follows Lynda Chalker's path from diplomacy to consultancy

Former British Ambassador to Nigeria Paul Arkwright, with Prince Charles in 2018. © Joe Giddens/Press Association Images/MaxPPP

Former British Ambassador to Nigeria and, much more briefly, to DRC, Paul Arkwright is about to become strategic advisor to the Indian telephone operator Bharti Airtel, which is present in fourteen African countries.

Subscribers only Business

Ghana
Akufo-Addo pulls out all the stops to secure AU number two job for Ghana

With Ghana looking set to lose two of its most strategically important posts at the UN and the African Union in 2021, Akufo-Addo is redoubling his efforts to get Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee appointed as deputy chair of the AU Commission.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Africa
JA Delmas terminates Tractafric joint venture to go it alone on African power plants

France's JA Delmas and Morocco's Tractafric, both of which distribute Caterpillar products in various parts of Africa, have by common agreement decided to terminate their partnership. A new JA Delmas subsidiary will be developing power plant projects on its own for the mining industry.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Business

Nigeria
Malabu/OPL 245 case: squad of former ministers to referee ENI vs NNPC bout

Following former Bulgarian diplomat Stanimir Alexandrov's appointment earlier this month, a second member has been picked to join the ICSID artibral tribunal that will hear the case opposing Nigerian and Italian major ENI.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
Central bank turns up heat on TPLF's khat baron backers

The deputy governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia has sent a letter to the heads of all the country's commercial banks ordering them to close the accounts and freeze the assets of businessmen figuring on its list of suspected TPLF supporters.

Subscribers only Business

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Repatriation plans could be stepping stone to Air Madagascar-Ethiopian Airlines alliance

After getting the cold shoulder from Paris, the national carrier Air Madagascar has turned to Ethiopian Airlines in the hope of forming a partnership that will help it stay afloat.

Subscribers only Business

Mauritius
Port Louis becomes back office for ex-Wall Street gurus touting miracle Forex returns

The Russian financier Alex Gerchik, ex-trader and briefly a reality TV star, has set up a subsidiary in Mauritius for his online trading platform. Companies of this type have mushroomed in the island's offshore hub as well in the Seychelles.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

South Africa
French Waste Management group Séché Environnement cleans up in Southern Africa

Séché Environnement has just furthered its position in South Africa by acquiring hazardous waste expert Spill Tech, taking advantage of the absence of fellow French giants Suez and Veolia in South African waste management.

Subscribers only Business

Namibia
From Norton Rose to Kavango Basin: J. Jay Park's latest adventure

The ReconAfrica drilling site in Namibia. © ReconAfrica/Twitter

Canadian lawyer and "star" of Chadian oil business hopes to turn the Namibian desert into a new Texas.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Tunisia
Kais Saied's lonely battle to recover Ben Ali clan's ill-gotten gains

Tunisian President Kais Saied. © Fethi Belaid/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

With the legal deadlines to recover the hundreds of millions of euros misappropriated by the clan of the ex-president about to expire, President Kais Saied is being hindered by government departments and the speaker of parliament, the Islamist Rached Ghannouchi.

Subscribers only Politics

Western Sahara
Macron's secret call with Mohammed VI and Tebboune day after Polisario attack

King of Morocco Mohammed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron in 2018. © Julien Mattia/Le Pictorium/MaxPPP

Emmanuel Macron jumped on the phone to Mohammed VI on 24 January, a day after the Polisario Front fired missiles into the Guerguerat buffer zone controlled by Morocco and just after putting down the receiver from a call with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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