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Diplomacy Ports and airports 04/03/2021

Bangui and Paris bicker over French military air traffic controller at capital's airport

The Central African authorities are proving to be very resistant to France's proposal to deploy a French military air traffic controller at the control tower of Bangui airport. [...]

Business Defence 18/02/2021

UN's Darfur logistics provider Tajuj extends ops into CAR

The Sudanese group Tajuj, set up to meet the needs of UN peacekeepers in Darfur, is now emulating the logistics and catering giant Ecolog and is spreading its wings across the continent. [...]

Mining 27/01/2021

The consultants who pulled Dan Gertler out of sanctions purgatory

Consultant Aron Shaviv, in 2015. ©Shaviv Strategy and Campaigns/YouTube

Business Infrastructures 19/01/2021

AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy Free

The African Development Bank has published a brutal assessment of way the Economic Community of Central African States, its partner on numerous infrastructure projects, is being run. [...]

Business Infrastructures 08/01/2021

Lawyers and consultants flock to Brazzaville in search of infrastructure projects

Initially scheduled to take place in Brussels and then Paris, the CEMAC round table on public-private partnerships has finally taken place in Brazzaville, attracting a veritable horde of lawyers specialising in this domain. [...]

Mining 06/01/2021

Belgian trader CCO saved CAR's year in diamond exports

After a catastrophic first quarter amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, diamond exports rose in the second half of 2020 after the arrival of a new trading company in the Central African Republic. [...]

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Business Defence 24/12/2020

Wagner sets up air bridge as armed groups threaten Touadéra ahead of poll

Russian private security firm Wagner has stepped up equipment deliveries to CAR's armed forces over recent days, using a range of large cargo plane brokers. The logistics escalation comes as rebels threaten the 27 December presidential poll. [...]

Politics 24/12/2020

Parisian PR agency ImaGGE backs Catherine Samba-Panza's campaign in France

Early this month in Paris, Catherine Samba-Panza, candidate for president of the Central African Republic, relied heavily on ImaGGE communications agency for PR. [...]

Business Mining 23/12/2020

Jeantet opens new 'green' OHADA desk

Green energy will be the theme of the first two seminars organised by Jeantet's brand new OHADA desk. [...]

Business Defence 14/12/2020

EUTM-RCA buys kit from TAG, Haftar's source of armoured vehicles

The Armored Group (TAG) continues to win contracts with multinational forces, even though the US firm operates in a Libya under sanctions. [...]

Business 27/11/2020

Tripoli and Bangui at daggers drawn over luxury hotel

The Plaza Ledger hotel, the place to be in Bangui, is the prize in a bitter battle between its owner, the Libyan state, and its manager, Zeyad Alzarzour Khalifa, who has the backing of the Central African government. [...]

Dry port projects in Congo and the Central African Republic.

Business Ports and airports 24/11/2020

Sogea-Satom, Olam and Stoa see opportunity in Dolisie and Beloko dry port projects

The three companies are keen to take part in inland port projects in Congo and another in Central African Republic designed to ease congestion at Pointe-Noire. [...]

Abbas Mahamat Tolli, Governor of Central Africa Banks.

Oil & gas 16/11/2020

Bongo and Obiang get BEAC to give in to oil firms

The regional bank has yet to impose the CFA franc on mining and oil firms, thanks to a fuss kicked up by a private sector backed by certain regional leaders. [...]

Business Ports and airports 13/11/2020

Turkey's Damnus follows compatriot Summa into privatised airports sector

The Turkish conglomerate Damnus headed by Nusret Comert is set to run Bangui international airport, where it will also be in charge of refurbishing works estimated to cost €30m. [...]

Business Defence 04/11/2020

Gabon's blue helmets stymied by faulty Chinese APCs Free

Gabon is about to rotate troops within the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, but its soldiers there are still grappling with equipment problems. [...]

BRDM-2 armoured personnel carriers Russia delivered to Central African Republic's army.

Diplomacy Defence 28/10/2020

Two of CAR's Russian BRDM armoured personnel carriers break down

Two of a delivery of ten Russian BRDM-2 armoured vehicles to Central African Republic have broken down. [...]

Mining 22/10/2020

Bangui speeds up creation of mines police unit to obtain much-needed EU aid

A decree opening the way to the creation of a new unit to check on the security and legality of operations at the country's mines was issued a few days ago. Establishment of the new unit is a necessary condition for the release of a €6m aid payment by the European Union. [...]

Diplomacy Ports and airports 13/10/2020

Saudis to rescue Bangui-to-airport road rebuild

Riyadh has volunteered to finance the rehabilitation of a main road axis in Bangui contracted to a Chinese construction giant. [...]

Politics Infrastructures 07/10/2020

CEMAC seeks $3.3bn to finance infrastructure projects

The six members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) are planning a round table in November to raise funds for the construction of roads and electricity plants. [...]

Politics Defence 06/10/2020

Emirates' remote logistics group RA International is to advise CAR general staff

The Dubai-based contractor is to train the Central African Republic's armed forces under the supervision of the US Army. [...]

Politics 18/09/2020

Touadéra forced to find new prime minister and reshuffle his cabinet

Several ministers, including the prime minister, will be running for office in the Central African general elections scheduled for 27 December and are therefore obliged to step down from their posts. [...]

Politics Defence 15/09/2020

Army-rebel USMS units to take up their quarters in Ndélé and Bangassou

The Special Mixed Security Units (USMS) should soon be sent to the Ndélé and Bangassou military training camps. It is there that the European Union Training Mission in the Central African Republic (EUTM-RCA), which is helping to set up the USMS units, is preparing to train the headquarters staff of the Central African African Armed Forces. [...]

US Special Envoy J. Peter Pham, mender-in-chief of fences between Bujumbura and Washington, with Burundi's late president, Pierre Nkurunziza.

Diplomacy Mining 04/09/2020

How rare earths and evangelicals brought Trump closer to Bujumbura

The pending confirmation of Melanie Higgins as the new US ambassador to Burundi, a post left vacant for the past 18 months, spells the final phase of a discreet but important bridging of ties between the United States and Burundi. [...]

Catherine Samba-Panza is planning to officially announce her bid in late August.

Politics 13/07/2020

Ex-president Catherine Samba-Panza eyes return to top job

Catherine Samba-Panza, who served as interim president of the Central African Republic during the transition that followed the coup of 2013, will soon be announcing that she will run for president in December 2020. [...]

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Diplomacy 11/06/2020

June is Sahel month for French diplomats

What with the presidency of the UN Security Council, the renewal of MINUSMA's mandate and the Coalition for the Sahel in June, and the G5 Sahel summit in early July in Mauritania, the Sahel region is set to keep French diplomats very busy during the next few weeks. [...]

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