BUSINESS

• GUINEA - Saikou Amadou Diallo, helming the fight against graft

• MOROCCO - Ali Seddiki, investment champion

• TANZANIA - Charles Makakala, Francophile incubator

• KENYA - Justina Wamae, sights set on the middle classes

New hospital contract signals further warming of India-Kenya relations 

Earlier this month, the Indian health consultancy group Astron Hospital & Healthcare Consultants signed a cooperation agreement with Kenyan consultancy firm Elite Edge Consult to support hospital management in Kenya.

Would-be president Siteny's Russian business ties 

Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko, who is running for president, can count on his economic links with the family of Marius Vizer, who heads the International Judo Federation and is close to Vladimir Putin.

• GABON - Biya skips summit, Sassou snubs group photo

• GABON - Congolese delegation plays cat and mouse with Gabonese opposition

• SENEGAL - French rappers Gims and Maes pick luxury concierge service

• EGYPT - Belgium's Queen Mathilde acts as ambassador for tourism

Moroccan data centre leader N+One continues winning streak in Senegal 

Moroccan IT services leader N+One Datacenters has won a contract to equip a data centre under Senegal's Digital Technology Park project.

Consultant Tayeb Benabderrahmane takes his battle against Qatar to World Bank 

The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes will hold a first sitting on 27 March in Washington, DC on the disputes between Tayeb Benabderrahmane and the Qatari authorities.

After brief respite, Tigray starved of cash again 

Ethiopia's central bank sent more than $90m worth of birr in cash to banks in war-ravaged Tigray last month. Within a couple of weeks, there was barely any of it left. Here's why.

Ex-PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin shepherds French business leaders to Brazzaville 

The Fondation Prospective et Innovation, run by the former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, is to dispatch a business delegation to Brazzaville from 27 to 29 March.

Straife advises oil trader BGN International 

The Emirati company is being supported on its Libyan operations by the US consultancy's boss Joseph Fleming, who formerly worked as a lobbyist for eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar.

• SENEGAL - Mouhamadou Lamine Bara, the PR man advising Macky Sall's opponents

• EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Teresa Isabel Nnang Avomo, GEPetrol's new boss at the service of the vice president

• DR CONGO - Trésor Mputu moves from football to politics

• ETHIOPIA - Kidus Fisaha Asfaw, from Mountain View to green construction

US Republicans target Telkom-Huawei and Vumacam-Hikvision partnerships 

US Representative John James used a resolution denouncing joint military exercises by Russia and China in South African waters to single out state-owned telecoms giant Telkom and small monitoring company Vumacam.