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Spotlight | Africa
Industry leaders support Berlin's hydrogen diplomacy

Robert Habeck (3rd from left), Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, and Hage Gottfried Geingob (4th from right), president of Namibia, focusing on closer cooperation on hydrogen on 5 December 2022 in Windhoek. © Bernd Von Jutrczenka/DPA via AFP

Eager to diversify its energy supply, Germany is looking into various green hydrogen projects in Africa. Siemens, Enertrag and Bosch are in the vanguard, and Egypt and Namibia are competing to secure investment pledges.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Congo
Sassou battles to hang on to his presidential jet

The Bordeaux court of appeal is to rule today on whether the Congolese president's plane, seized in 2020 by Commisimpex, can be auctioned off. It is one of Congo's last chances of recovering the aircraft.

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DRC
J5 Co helps mark 20th anniversary of African first ladies NGO

La dernière édition du raout annuel de l'Organisation des premières dames d'Afrique pour le développement (OPDAD), qui s'est tenue le 17 juin à Kinshasa, a été préparée par l'agence française J5 Co.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

West Africa

Mauritania
SNIM to relaunch F'Derick operations on its own

The state-owned company run by Mohamed Vall Ould Telmidi believes it has sufficient financial resources to mine the iron ore reserves in the north of Mauritania itself, and has abandoned plans to subcontract out the work.

Subscribers only Mining

Ivory Coast
Confederation of African Football switches AGM to Abidjan

The General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football will not take place at the Sofitel in Cotonou on 13 July, as had been planned, but at the Sofitel in Abidjan.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Artisanal gold production continues unabated despite civil war

Sudanese men pan for gold at the village of al-Abidiya in northern Sudan in 2010. © Ashraf Shazly/AFP

Most of Sudan's gold mines have not been affected by the war between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army. But the closure of the country's airspace has changed the export routes for the precious metal.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders

Kenya
Ruto treads carefully as Mungiki sect shows signs of revival

Kenyan president William Ruto and the former leader of the Mungiki sect, Maina Njenga. © BJ Warnick/Newscom via Alamy / James Wakibia/Sopa/Zuma Press via Alamy

Keen not to erode his central Kenya base, the president is trying to discreetly counter the leader of an infamous banned group that appears to have returned to centre stage.

Subscribers only Politics

Ethiopia
Ethiopian Airlines trial for discrimination against Tigrayans set to start

An Ethiopian NGO is accusing Ethiopian Airlines of discriminating against Tigrayan passengers wishing to travel to Addis Ababa after the war ended. Tomorrow, the court will hear both sides' arguments.

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Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Kenmare courts Sunshine Nuts for job creation

Previously solicited by TotalEnergies to provide jobs for families displaced by its Mozambique gas project, the US food-processing business Sunshine Nuts is now in talks with Irish mining company Kenmare with a view to mounting a similar project.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Algeria
Cevital to resume sugar exports to Europe

Following a year-long export ban, sugar refined by the Algerian company can start crossing the Mediterranean again.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

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