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The Burkinabe businessman Idrissa Nassa. ©Twitter

Inner circles Business Mining 01/03/2021

Which of his many connections is Idrissa Nassa calling on to boost business?

Diplomacy 01/03/2021

Faure Gnassingbé to review progress on transition in Lomé on 8 March

Togo President Faure Gnassingbé. ©Christophe Morin/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

Oil & gas 26/02/2021

Ex-Tullow Oil boss Paul McDade's new life

Since being forced into retirement a year ago, Paul McDade has embarked on a new adventure in west African oil thanks to Sterling Energy and is now keen to start buying assets. [...]

Oil & gas 25/02/2021

Aker Energy's commitment to training locals bites the dust

The Covid-19 pandemic is a welcome excuse for the Norwegian company to suspend financial aid for Ghanaian state initiatives. [...]

Business 25/02/2021

Strauss-Kahn pursues his business prospecting marathon in Cotonou

Former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who now heads his own Parnasse International consulting company, has been in the Beninese capital, Cotonou, since Sunday 21 February. [...]

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Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa

Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in West and North Africa. [...]

Cocoa beans drying in the sun in Ivory Coast.

Running story Business

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

By jointly introducing a premium of $400 per tonne on cocoa beans in autumn 2020, Ivory Coast and Ghana were seeking to ensure that cocoa producers' revenues were maintained. In so doing, however, they sparked off an open war with the big commodity traders, who have since taken steps to get round the measure and avoid paying the premium. [...]

President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo.

Diplomacy 18/02/2021

Akufo-Addo's Sahelian agenda

The current holder of the ECOWAS rotating chair, Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo, is intending to make the Sahel a central priority of his term at the helm of the regional organisation at a time when jihadist groups are extending their networks into countries lying on the west African coast. [...]

Business Defence 18/02/2021

Erstwhile military ops stalwart ICS faces liquidation

International Chartering Systems (ICS) boss Philippe de Jonquières, whose firm has carried out countless airlifts for the French military, plans to shut down the company after nearly four years of judicial investigation that has failed to lead to an indictment. [...]

Chadian President Idriss Deby welcomes his Burkinabé counterpart Roch Marc Christian Kabore to N'Djamena on 15 February.

Business 18/02/2021

From posh presidential jets to cargo planes, Bonkoungou has something for everyone

Mahamadou Bonkoungou, owner of Air transport company LTI, recently purchased a new luxury jet, used by the president of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, among others. He also invested in a freighter for his construction company Ebomaf. [...]

Oil & gas 17/02/2021

Europeans all in but Russians cold shouldered: Tema LNG's shifting alliances

The construction of Tema's new gas import terminal has brought in its wake a whole galaxy of foreign companies attracted by the opportunities of this future hub. [...]

Business Power 17/02/2021

Accra forced to ask for more time to take over operation of Sheikh Dalmook Al Maktoum's power station

The Ghanaian authorities, who had been due to retake control of the 250-MW gas-fuelled power station on 1 February, are running behind schedule. As a result, the Emirates' Ameri Group is going to have to operate it for a few months longer than originally intended. [...]

Business Power 09/02/2021

Oppenheimer Partners quietly invests in Ghana energy

Oppenheimer Partners, an investment fund owned by the eponymous South African billionaire family, has added Genser Energy group to its ultra-selective asset portfolio. [...]

Oil & gas 04/02/2021

Shell profits from falling out between ENI and state-owned GNPC

The Anglo-Dutch major Shell has taken advantage of the deterioration in relations between the state-owned GNPC and its longstanding partner ENI, whom the government has accused of manoeuvring it into signing an unfavourable contract on Sankofa. [...]

Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who chairs the Grande Loge du Congo.

Politics 02/02/2021

Africa's masonic grand masters using square and compasses for political gain

Although they forbid both atheism and political debate, Africa's so-called "regular" masonic lodges, led by Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, are being torn apart by the political ambitions of their grand masters. [...]

Business 01/02/2021

From Michael Jackson to Ghana's elite, Nicky Wilson's networks stretch far and wide

The mysterious and influential Togolese businessman Nicky Wilson is close to all of Ghana's decision-makers and knows numerous African presidents. [...]

Mining 01/02/2021

Endeavour Mining's new acquisition, Semafo, made to pay its debts

Canadian gold producer Semafo, bought by Endeavour Mining last year, has been ordered to pay sums owed to a transporter that worked on its mines in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger. [...]

Diplomacy 01/02/2021

Embaló's hush-hush campaign for ECOWAS chair

President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is working the region to pave his way to the chairmanship of the regional bloc. [...]

Meeting between Dominique Strauss-Kahn (left) and Guinea Bissau head of state Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Bissau, 15 January.

Business 29/01/2021

Strauss-Kahn pitch to Embaló

In Bissau on 15 January to meet with President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has offered to help Guinea Bissau raise Chinese funding for infrastructure projects. [...]

Business Defence 29/01/2021

DTIS and Paramount offer to beef up parliamentary security in wake of MP's murder

Following the murder in early October of Ekow Quansah Hayford, an MP for the president's New Patriotic Party (NPP), in the midst of the general election campaign, the Ghanaian parliament has decided to beef up the security arrangements for MPs by deploying an additional 200 police officers. [...]

Diplomacy 28/01/2021

Akufo-Addo pulls out all the stops to secure AU number two job for Ghana

With Ghana looking set to lose two of its most strategically important posts at the UN and the African Union in 2021, Akufo-Addo is redoubling his efforts to get Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee appointed as deputy chair of the AU Commission. [...]

Chief of staff of the Ghana Armed Forces Obed Boama Akwa.

Inner circles Diplomacy 22/01/2021

How General Obed Akwa is orchestrating Accra's military diplomacy

Ghana's 16,000-strong army has become one of the main levers of Accra's outsized diplomatic influence in Africa and beyond, with nearly 3,000 soldiers deployed across a dozen UN missions. President Nana Akufo-Addo is particularly fond of his country's armed forces and increasingly relies on his Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Obed Akwa. [...]

Ghanaian gas: western abundance, eastern scarcity.

Oil & gas 21/01/2021

GNPC heavily criticised over decision to import Shell gas

The choice of Shell in Ghana to import gas for the Tema LNG terminal has raised eyebrows, as local producers have the capacity to supply the country's power plants. [...]

Former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Business 20/01/2021

Strauss-Kahn turns to Bissau as he scrabbles for new contracts

Having failed to take advantage of the G20's debt suspension initiative, which brought in new African contracts for all his competitors, former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now offering his services as a consultant in Africa's smallest capitals. [...]

Diplomacy 18/01/2021

Foreign minister Botchway, centrepiece of Akufo Addo's ECOWAS chairmanship

Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo's powerful foreign minister for the past four years, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway is to chair a meeting of her ECOWAS colleagues in Mali on 19 January. [...]

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Which of his many connections is Idrissa Nassa calling on to boost business?

Faure Gnassingbé to review progress on transition in Lomé on 8 March

Ex-Tullow Oil boss Paul McDade's new life

Aker Energy's commitment to training locals bites the dust