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In Focus | Africa
Lourenço, Buhari, Sall and co. handpick their envoys to the House of Saud

The new Angolan ambassador to Saudi Arabia Frederico Manuel dos Santos e Silva Cardoso (left) met with the Saudi Minister of Protocol Affairs Mashari bin Ali bin Naheet on 25 May 2021. © Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia/Twitter

Nurturing relations with the leading Gulf power is an absolute necessity for all African presidents seeking financial and political support in the Arab world. To develop their lines of communications with the Wahhabi monarchy, African heads of state choose personalities of the first order.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

DRC
Beveraggi vs Katumbi: one final summons before Beverragi takes the DRC before the CCI

Frenchman Pascal Beveraggi is giving one last chance to the DRC to react before beginning arbitration proceedings over his case against Congolese politician Moïse Katumbi. He is looking for support among France's political class and media.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa

Sahel
Bazoum and 'Kaka' plan common aerial front against rebels

A few months after FACT rebels' abortive assault on N'Djamena, the military staffs of Chad and Niger, which the episode pitted against each other, have begun discreet talks about conducting joint air reconnaissance and perhaps even air strikes.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Nigeria
One by one, Lekoil Nigeria executives jump ship from Lekoil Limited

Mutual accusations of sabotage abound as the junior's senior managers distance themselves from the company's main shareholder, based in the Cayman Islands.

Subscribers only Energy

Burkina Faso
New fund aims to help gold miners go green

The Artisanal Gold Council, an NGO dedicated to improving the living and working conditions of artisanal miners, is planning a fund to finance the purchase of less polluting equipment by miners in Burkina Faso.

Subscribers only Mining

Ivory Coast
Abidjan buys 150 Spanish military vehicles for its gendarmerie

Technology & Security Developments has won a €20m contract to supply Ivorian gendarmes, who are grappling with a growing Islamist threat in the north of the country.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Khartoum talks with rebel Al Hilu stumble on secularism

The leader of Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), Abdelaziz Al Hilu. © Jok Solomun/Reuters

Sudan's transitional government and the rebel leader have reached agreements on many points after a fortnight of intense negotiations. The prickly issue of secularism, however, remains partly unresolved.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana
Mokgweetsi Masisi and American TV game show host Steve Harvey's blossoming friendship

Botswana president Mokgweetsi Masisi with US TV game show host Steve Harvey in 2019. © @BotswanaGovernment/Facebook

Without calling for tender, Botswana's president just awarded Steve Harvey's production company a TV production contract, drawing attention to their friendship. Harvey has been active in Africa since 2019.

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Angola
Lourenço plays the game with EITI as elections approach

Angolan President João Lourenço. © Ampe Rogerio/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The Angola committee overseeing Luanda's application for membership of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) met for the first time in early June. The EITI sees Angola as a key asset to help it expand in southern Africa but could find its efforts to get Angola into the organisation tied to electoral considerations.

Subscribers only Mining

Comoros islands, France
France names new ambassador to Moroni

France's ambassador to the Comoros Jacqueline Bassa-Mazzoni is due to leave her post this summer.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Morocco
Banker to the royal family, Mohamed Benslimane, takes a seat at utility Lydec

The head of Advisory & Finance Group and husband of Mohammed VI's cousin Lalla Zineb is joining the board of the Casablanca water and power utility controlled by French water and waste management group Suez.

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Libya
French ambassador's real move to Tripoli set for early July

France's Libyan embassy, headed by Béatrice Le Fraper du Hellen, will in early July move definitively from Tunis to Tripoli.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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