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Spotlight | Kenya
Belarusian businessmen with colourful history elsewhere in Africa break into Ruto's machine

Business partners Oleg Vodchits and Alexander Zingman, who were previously active in Zimbabwe and DR Congo, are becoming quasi official middlemen in Kenya's new administration. They have also been questioned in the DRC over their ties to that country's former president, Joseph Kabila.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

The Continent

Africa
South Africa, Seychelles, Comoros and Egypt

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics, Business, Diplomacy

Central Africa

DRC
Kinshasa negotiates $200m loan for Mbuji-Mayi-Kananga road

President Félix Tshisekedi has been involved in the discussions with Afreximbank for the financing of a project to build two roads, including a section of 188 km, in central DR Congo.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance

France, Gabon, Senegal, Zambia
Macron seeking to include African leaders at global financial pact summit

French President Emmanuel Macron is looking to involve a slate of African leaders at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact that he is hosting in June.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy

West Africa

Burkina Faso
French and German firms neck and neck for Zagtouli Solar Power Station extension contract

Solar panels of the solar energy power plant in Zagtouli, near Ouagadougou, on its inauguration day on 29 November 2017. © Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP

German engineering company Gopa Intec and a consortium of French firms Artelia and Energtec are now the only two bidders remaining for the contract for the supervision of extension work at the Zagtouli Solar Power Station in Burkina Faso.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

Sahel
Special envoys for the Sahel to meet in The Hague

EU special envoys for the Sahel to meet in The Hague on 17 and 18 April.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Security reform still a sticking point in political dialogue

Members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries in the village of Abraq, about 60 km northwest of Khartoum, on 22 June 2019. © Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP

Sudan should get its transition to democracy back on track in the first half of April. Thorny issues like the integration of the powerful Rapid Support Forces into the regular army look unlikely to be settled by then, however.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
ExxonMobil revises Rovuma LNG to reduce carbon footprint

The US oil company has decided to redesign its future liquefied natural gas (LNG) trains in Mozambique in order to reduce their carbon footprint. The major is keen to project an image of an environmentally virtuous project.

Subscribers only Energy

Southern Africa
TotalEnergies, Maurel & Prom and Perenco to attend African Energy Chamber forum

Africa's main oil lobby, run by lawyer NJ Ayuk, will organise its next Invest in African Energy Forum in Paris. The event is scheduled for 1 June.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Algeria, France
Paris-Algiers ties still strained over extradition requests

French President Emmanuel Macron and Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers, on the 27th of August 2022. © APP/MaxPPP

A diplomatic détente between Algeria and France has failed to resolve a row over the former's extradition requests to the latter. The case of the Franco-Algerian opposition figure Amira Bouraoui, who was recently exfiltrated to France, has only poured fuel on the fire.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Morocco
Pan-African Youth Union welcomes its third director in 12 months

Established in Rabat since February 2022, the Pan-African Youth Union is struggling to find its marks in Morocco, as is indicated by its recurrent changes of executive director.

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