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Inner circles | Tanzania
Samia Suluhu Hassan breaks free of CCM and installs allies as key advisers

Tanzania's new president Samia Suluhu Hassan. © AFP

The new Tanzanian president has chosen a number of her former collaborators as her close advisers at the president's office. Young and highly qualified academically, they also have in common the fact that they are not products of the CCM, the party which has been in power since the country became independent.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

DRC, Egypt
Billionaire Naguib Sawiris goes prospecting in DRC

Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris. © Reuters

With his gold operations expanding but his media business struggling, Sawiris was in Kinshasa in late May to cultivate his relations with the ministers of mines and communications.

Subscribers only Mining, Business

Cameroon
'Covidgate' spells danger for tycoon Mohamadou Dabo

The powerful businessman, who has close ties to the ruling RDPC party, is the central figure in a state audit of how Covid-19 funds were spent or misspent. He could face criminal proceedings.

Subscribers only Politics

Gabon
Maurel & Prom and Libreville gear up for arbitration

The state-owned Indonesian company Pertamina which owns Maurel & Prom has refused to compromise on the compensation it is demanding from Gabon Oil Co and instead the two companies have agreed on the make-up of a Paris arbitration panel.

Subscribers only Energy

Chad
After Déby's death, DoJ goes after his ex-ambassador to US

Mahamoud Adam Bechir (centre) attending a ceremony to present credentials to the Russian president at the Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. © Mikhail Klimentyev/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS

The US authorities have indicated their intention of arresting Chadian diplomat Mahamoud Adam Bechir, who is accused of taking money from Griffiths Energy to help it acquire blocks in 2011.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Ministerial tensions over Africa Cup of Nations construction works

Responsibility for the contracts to construct the roads and stadiums for the 2023 competition is being fought over by the sports and procurement ministers. A match being refereed by Prime Minister Patrick Achi.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics

Guinea
Dynamic Mining awaits banks' green light to finalise bauxite finance plan

The Indian firm is in advanced discussions with three banks to finance the debt portion of the $150m needed to move its Bon Ami bauxite mine in Guinea into production. Its majority shareholder is meanwhile prospecting elsewhere.

Subscribers only Mining

Mali
ECOWAS leaders to deliberate over Goita's military takeover

The ECOWAS delegation sent on 25 May to Bamako, led by Goodluck Jonathan. © Amadou Keita/Reuters

The regional organisation will hold a closed meeting over the next few days to discuss the situation in Mali after the interim vice president Assimi Goita forced the transitional president, Bah N'Daw, from power. Backstage, discussions between west African leaders have already begun.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
IOG sows the seeds of discord over his succession

Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelleh. © AFP

In retaining the political heavyweights in his new government, the Djiboutian president runs the risk of internal power struggles between those aspiring to succeed him, while at the same time leaving the door open to a potential sixth term in office.

Subscribers only Politics

Uganda
Busega-Mpigi highway works advance at a snail's pace

One of ten road projects intended to ease congestion in the Ugandan capital Kampala, the planned 20 km highway between Busega and Mpigi will not be seeing the light of day any time soon.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Washington stealthily increases security cooperation with Maputo

The United States is slowly but surely bolstering its support for the Mozambican government. Having deployed around a dozen green berets, Washington is now beefing up the embassy's security advisory team with the help of private service providers.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Namibia
Danish art magnate offers Windhoek platform to bypass diamond middlemen

Adex Platform's delegation were received by the executive director at the Ministry of International Relations, Penda Naanda (right). © Twitter/@MIRCO_NAMIBIA

A delegation from the Swiss-based Adex Platform led by Danish businessman Teit Ritzau recently visited Windhoek to present its proposed diamond sales platform.

Free access Mining

North Africa

Libya
Dabaiba and Macron to talk security and reconstruction on 1 June

Libyan prime minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba. © Dmitry Astakhov/POOL/TASS

Hoping to participate in Libya's reconstruction, Paris will need to draw a veil over its former support for the strongman of the east, Khalifa Haftar. And contend with the fact that Abdelhamid Dabaiba has strong backing from Turkey, whose influence in Africa Macron is seeking to curb.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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