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Energy 29/03/2023

TotalEnergies, Maurel & Prom and Perenco to attend African Energy Chamber forum

Africa's main oil lobby, run by lawyer NJ Ayuk, will organise its next Invest in African Energy Forum in Paris. The event is scheduled for 1 June.

Finance Diplomacy 29/03/2023

Macron seeking to include African leaders at global financial pact summit

French President Emmanuel Macron is looking to involve a slate of African leaders at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact that he is hosting in June.

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Infrastructure Mining 07/03/2023

Harare acts to get back on the lucrative Durban-Copperbelt freight route

An aerial view of the newly built Kazungula bridge over the Zambezi river in Kazungula, Botswana, on 10 May 2021. © Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP

Finance Diplomacy 03/03/2023

Hichilema set to meet Macron in Paris

The French government is currently planning for an official visit to Paris by the Zambian head of state, Hakainde Hichilema.

Defence 02/03/2023

NAC prepares for battle over ex-foreign minister Malanji's helicopters

The commercial aviation company National Airways Corp is preparing to contest a preservation order granted to the South African prosecution service for two helicopters acquired illegally by Joseph Malanji. It claims that upgrades costing €800,000 were never paid for.

Commodity traders 19/01/2023

US vanilla importers battle for lower minimum price

The new US ambassador to Antananarivo has made herself the spokesperson in Madagascar for her country's vanilla importers, who view the obligatory minimum price for the spice as much too high and have boycotted the sector in protest.

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Finance Mining Diplomacy 20/12/2022

President Hichilema pampered by Biden administration in Washington

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has been lauded for reforms aimed at turning his country around and has won US support on several fronts. In exchange, Washington wants to secure a supply line for electric vehicle batteries.

President of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema at the US Capitol, Washington, DC, 13 December 2022.

Commodity traders 01/12/2022

Lychee trade hit by corruption allegations

Madagascan lychee exporters have lodged a complaint against the local branch of Transparency International, which has accused them of corruption. The affair, in which France's Compagnie fruitière and the Belgian firm Greenyard are implicated, is being followed closely by Western embassies.

Diplomacy 03/11/2022

Bertolino Miranda Ferreira to take up military attaché duty in Maputo

After three years coordinating Portugal's contribution to combating the insurrection in Cabo Delgado, the navy commander Paulo Gonçalves da Silva is preparing to make way for the air force officer Bertolino Miranda Ferreira at Portugal's embassy in Mozambique.

Politics 22/09/2022

Portugal overhauls its Africa policy team

The Portuguese foreign ministry has decided to overhaul its entire Africa department just months after its first change of boss since 2015.

Mining 07/07/2022

Mining appeals tribunal takes shape

Zambia has at last launched its new appeals tribunal dedicated to settling disputes in the strategic mining sector. It is manned by several big names from the legal and mining worlds.

Mining 04/07/2022

National mining company ZCCM-IH increasing efforts to target cement market

In addition to supplying cement manufacturers with limestone, state-run ZCCM-IH is looking into building a new gypsum factory, another component of cement, as part of its strategy to diversify beyond copper.

Mining 28/06/2022

Air Force flies in to support Hichilema's mining strategy

In addition to the economic and legislative reforms he is putting in place to attract foreign investors to Zambia, head of State Hakainde Hichilema might also be able to count on security support from above.

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Southern Africa: the tough path towards quitting coal

The whole region of southern Africa, and especially South Africa, remains extremely dependent on coal mines, despite protests from environmentalists and pressure from the West in the form of billion-dollar subsidised plans to speed up the coal phase-out.

The Duvha coal-fired power plant, owned by state-owned utility Eskom, in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga province, South Africa, on June 3, 2021.

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Putin's envoy reassures Harare and Maputo but avoids Pretoria

On a tour of southern Africa, Russian Federation Council leader Valentina Matvienko promised Zimbabwe and Mozambique that their imports of basic necessities would not be hit by the war in Ukraine. But the Kremlin envoy notably did not include South Africa in her trip.

Valentina Matvienko, President of the Council of the Russian Federation.

Mining 15/06/2022

ZCCM-IH hunts for new boss to implement strategic plan

ZCCM-Investment Holdings (ZCCM-IH), which manages the state's stake in Zambia's mines, has formally launched the process of recruiting a new CEO.

Mining Diplomacy 13/06/2022

Brenthurst Foundation plays promoter of North American interests in Lusaka

Greg Mills, head of South Africa's Brenthurst Foundation, is showing himself to be increasingly influential with Zambian head of state Hakainde Hichilema. He has recently brokered talks on such major issues as the opening of an Africom bureau in Lusaka and a multi-million dollar investment programme in Zambia by First Quantum Minerals.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema at the launch of Greg Mills' book Expensive Poverty on 27 January 2022 in Johannesburg.

Mining 06/05/2022

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TotalEnergies, Maurel & Prom and Perenco to attend African Energy Chamber forum

Macron seeking to include African leaders at global financial pact summit

Harare acts to get back on the lucrative Durban-Copperbelt freight route

Hichilema set to meet Macron in Paris

NAC prepares for battle over ex-foreign minister Malanji's helicopters

US vanilla importers battle for lower minimum price

President Hichilema pampered by Biden administration in Washington

Lychee trade hit by corruption allegations

Bertolino Miranda Ferreira to take up military attaché duty in Maputo

Portugal overhauls its Africa policy team

Mining appeals tribunal takes shape

National mining company ZCCM-IH increasing efforts to target cement market

Air Force flies in to support Hichilema's mining strategy

Southern Africa: the tough path towards quitting coal

Putin's envoy reassures Harare and Maputo but avoids Pretoria

ZCCM-IH hunts for new boss to implement strategic plan

Brenthurst Foundation plays promoter of North American interests in Lusaka

Vedanta Zinc on the hunt for new CEO

Brasilia injects fresh blood into its African diplomatic corps

African Union foreign ministers set to meet in Lusaka

State mining investor ZCCM-IH to apply ESG to attract foreign investors

Will US sanctions crush Museveni's ambitions for Congolese gold?

Volunteers forced to wait before joining International Ukrainian Legion

Russia sanctions accelerate Airbus and Boeing's hunt for African titanium

Hichilema's gold mine bind

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TotalEnergies, Maurel & Prom and Perenco to attend African Energy Chamber forum

Macron seeking to include African leaders at global financial pact summit

Harare acts to get back on the lucrative Durban-Copperbelt freight route

Hichilema set to meet Macron in Paris

NAC prepares for battle over ex-foreign minister Malanji's helicopters

US vanilla importers battle for lower minimum price

President Hichilema pampered by Biden administration in Washington

Lychee trade hit by corruption allegations

Bertolino Miranda Ferreira to take up military attaché duty in Maputo

Portugal overhauls its Africa policy team

Mining appeals tribunal takes shape

National mining company ZCCM-IH increasing efforts to target cement market

Air Force flies in to support Hichilema's mining strategy

Southern Africa: the tough path towards quitting coal

Putin's envoy reassures Harare and Maputo but avoids Pretoria

ZCCM-IH hunts for new boss to implement strategic plan

Brenthurst Foundation plays promoter of North American interests in Lusaka

Vedanta Zinc on the hunt for new CEO

Brasilia injects fresh blood into its African diplomatic corps

African Union foreign ministers set to meet in Lusaka

State mining investor ZCCM-IH to apply ESG to attract foreign investors

Will US sanctions crush Museveni's ambitions for Congolese gold?

Volunteers forced to wait before joining International Ukrainian Legion

Russia sanctions accelerate Airbus and Boeing's hunt for African titanium

Hichilema's gold mine bind

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