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Spotlight | Mozambique
Angola provides air transport for SADC operation in Cabo Delgado

The SADC member countries fighting terrorist groups in Cabo Delgado province have each taken on a different role in the operation. Angola has been tasked with delivering equipment to the troops on the ground.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

DRC
Airports authority has mixed feelings over Kinshasa airport project

The airport of N'Djili (DRC). © Arsene Mpiana/AFP

Now that the runway at Kinshasa's N'Djili airport has been upgraded, attention is turning to the facility's new terminal, still a long way from completion three years after construction began.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Angola, DRC
Angola fobs off one DRC oil minister after another on disputed offshore oil blocks

The new Congolese oil minister Didier Budimbu (left) met with Angolan oil minister Diamantino Azevedo in Luanda on 26 September 2021. © Twitter/ Ministère des Hydrocarbures RDC

Angola and the DRC are in dispute over three offshore oil blocks. Angola's has not changed its approach to the problem, however. It has absolutely no intention of sharing them.

Subscribers only Energy

Congo
PM Makosso yet to appoint new team four months into the job

Congolese Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso (left) is still working primarily with the team formed by his predecessor, Clément Mouamba (right). © Anatole Collinet Makosso/Twitter

Anatole Collinet Makosso has still not named his new staff, more than four months after taking office. The only notable appointment he has made is that of his secretary general, poached from foreign minister Jean-Claude Gakosso, who in the process loses one of his most valuable men.

Subscribers only Politics

Chad
Ex-Acmat boss Emmanuel Legueu in N'Djamena to plug Arquus armoured vehicles

French manufacturer #Arquus has submitted several light armoured vehicle offers to N'Dj'amena in the past few weeks. #Chad

Subscribers only Defence, Business

West Africa

Niger
Niamey doubly deprived of clout in regional alliance

Niger lost the two key positions it held within the G5 Sahel bloc in July.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ivory Coast
Growing jihadist threat prompts Abidjan to target illicit funding from minerals

An artisanal miner pans for gold at an unlicensed mine near the city of Doropo, Ivory Coast. © Luc Gnago/Reuters

A guide aimed at reducing the risk of terrorist financing and money laundering via the mining sector is in the works, as the government steps up its counterterrorism efforts.

Free access Mining

Mauritania, Senegal
BP spearheads British diplomacy in West Africa

Senegal and Mauritania have become priority targets for British diplomacy since the gas discoveries at the Tortue field, which is being developed by BP.

Subscribers only Energy, Diplomacy

Mauritius, Nigeria
Afrinvest places trust in Port-Louis fiduciary Nexus

One of Nitin Collappen's first operations since taking over the helm of the Mauritian trust Nexus Global Financial Services in August, was to reigster a holding company on 22 September.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
IOG forges links with Monaco

Alexis Mohamed, special advisor to the president of the Republic of Djibouti, and Pierre Dartout, Monaco Prime Minister. © Twitter Account Alexis Mohamed

The president of Djibouti wants to strengthen diplomatic, but above all economic, relations with the principality of Monaco.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Sudan
Hamburg Port Consulting in talks to extend Port Sudan contract

The German business consultancy hired earlier this year by the Sudan Ports Corporation to run the country's only international port aims to double container traffic.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

North Africa

Morocco
Telecoms regulator's 5G plans squeezed between Huawei and US pressure

The Moroccan telecommunications authority ANRT will be hard pressed to ignore alarm signals from all sides about the dominance of the Chinese group's products in Morocco when drafting its roadmap for the rollout of a 5G network.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Tunisia
MPs critical of Kais Saied take flight

While parliamentary activities are suspended, some Tunisian MPs have been able to travel abroad in recent days. Others seem to have left the country before the president's 25 July power grab.

Subscribers only Politics

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