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Spotlight | Guinea
The coup and Covid-19 kill off TotalEnergies' exploration projects

French major TotalEnergies has abandoned blocks A4 and C2 in Guinea's offshore, amid political instability and the need to reduce its exploration costs due to the pandemic.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Gabon
Fortescue makes play for Belinga's iron

Andrew Forrest, president of mining group Fortescue Metals Group. © Joel Carrett/AAP Image

Billionaire Andrew Forrest's Australian mining group has been racking up deals in Africa, and last week signed with Gabon to carry out studies on the Mount Belinga iron ore deposit and potentially relaunch a 20-year-old project.

Subscribers only Mining

Central African Republic
Touadéra launches Dubai charm offensive

President of Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadera. © STR/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Faustin Archange Touadéra is keen to capitalise on visibility at Dubai World Expo to promote investment opportunities in CAR.

Subscribers only Mining, Business

DRC
French delegation set to talk defence and security in Kinshasa

A delegation of French parliamentarians led by MP Françoise Dumas, chairwoman of the Assembly's defence committee, is expected in Kinshasa in early Dec.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

West Africa

Nigeria
Police boost defences with new TAG armoured vehicles to face Boko Haram

US-Emirati armoured vehicle manufacturer The Armored Group (TAG) has equipped the Nigerian police with three armoured vehicles to secure Borno State, in the north-east of the country. A total of twenty vehicles are to be delivered.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Senegal
OCP to open new fertiliser plant as key part of West African expansion

In addition to its three small plants in Senegal, Morrocan state-run OCP will soon build a new high-capacity plant, capable of supplying several countries in the area.

Subscribers only Mining

Ivory Coast
From Mali to CAR, Abidjan doing all it can to get its soldiers UN Blue Helmets

Abidjan is trying to place a new battalion within the UN mission in Mali (Minusma), where Ivory Coast already has 800 Blue Helmet peacekeepers

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Sayed Tirik demands Juba peace deal overhaul as condition for joining ruling council

The tribal leader who instigated an uprising that precipitated General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's coup d'état, is on the verge of joining the country's new Sovereignty Council. In exchange for his participation, he is demanding that al-Burhan renege on the part of the Juba peace agreement that concerns the east of the country.

Subscribers only Politics

Tanzania
Local billionaire Rostam Aziz's firm is new majority stakeholder in Tancoal

After many months of fruitless searching, the Australian firm Intra Energy Corporation has finally found a buyer for its majority stake in Tanzania's largest coal mine: a firm owned by Rostam Aziz, a local billionaire and former treasurer of the country's ruling party.

Subscribers only Mining

Egypt, Madagascar
Sipromad wins €1m court case against Naguib Sawiris' Euronews

Ylias Akbaraly (left), owner of the company Sipromad, and the Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris (right). © Twitter/@Ylias_Akbaraly/Benno Schwinghammer/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP

After lengthy proceedings, a Paris court has ruled in favour of Madagascan company Sipromad in the dispute pitting it against Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris' Euronews TV channel, over the failed takeover of Africanews in 2019.

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

Israel, Morocco
Tel Aviv law firm Naschitz Brandes Amir seeks to capitalise on Israel-Morocco rapprochement

The law firm, which counts defence and cybersecurity companies among its clients, wants to become the go-to counsel for Israeli firms seeking to set up in Morocco.

Subscribers only Business

Libya, Tunisia
Washington and National Guard bolster surveillance balloons programme

Six years of consolidating the Libyan border. © Africa Intelligence/Indigo Publications-2021

The US Department of Justice has decided to boost the number of surveillance balloons it is installing in Tunisia under its ICITAP programme aimed at securing the very porous border with Libya.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

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