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Morocco
Prince Moulay Abdelaziz plays booking agent for Morocco... and his mother's hotels in Dakhla

Prince Moulay Abdelaziz Senoussi is keeping his morale up despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

Subscribers only Business 29.10.2020

Tunisia
MP Yassine Ayari and tax authority hound Maersk

View of containers at a loading terminal in the port of Radès in Tunis.© Reuters

Subscribers only Business 28.10.2020

East Africa
Former Scatec Solar vice president plans to invest in renewable energy projects all over Africa

Norway's Terje Osmundsen aims to use his investment company Empower Invest AS to carry out electricity projects in at least nine African countries.

Free access Energy, Business 28.10.2020

Ivory Coast
Finactu, the maestro of Ivorian expats' savings

Finactu, the go-to financial advisory for French-speaking Africa insurance companies and governments, has set up a banking-insurance consortium with Ivory Coast's savings bank to pool money sent home from the diaspora. One of Finactu's former clients, a subsidiary of insurance firm Atlantique, is on board the project.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 28.10.2020

Marrakesh airport.© YOUSSEF BOUDLAL/Reuters

Morocco
Al Mada eyes Marrakech Airport privatisation

The Royal holding company Al Mada is looking to team with Vinci to manage the country's second airport. The Covid-19 pandemic may hasten the deal.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 28.10.2020

World Bank president David Malpass.© Reuters

Spotlight | Africa
World Bank agonises over choice of new CEO for International Finance Corporation

Four months after the departure of Frenchman Philippe Le Houérou, who had been head of the International Finance Corporation since 2016, World Bank president David Malpass has still not found a new chief executive for the private sector lending institution.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 27.10.2020

DRC
Unlikely German trio push spectacular 10,000 km rail project

German entrepreneur Gernot Constant Wagner, who is already leading a major hydrogen production project in DRC, is pushing another to double the size of the Congolese's rail network.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 27.10.2020

Madagascar
Ravatomanga's discreet associate back in business

José Andrianasolo, a long-standing partner of well-known businessman and friend of President Rajoelina, Maminiaina Ravatomanga, has recently returned to sectors he knows well - tourism and oil transport.

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2020

Morocco
Western Sahara: ONDA to invest €1m in improvements to Dakhla airport

Morocco's national airports office ONDA has launched a tender for improvements at the airport in Dakhla, which the kingdom is looking to turn into a tourism hub.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 27.10.2020

Algeria
BPC Banking Technologies takes Noah-Tarek Kouninef prison sentence in its stride

Russian BPC will provide a mobile payment solution to interbanking consortium SATIM, even with Noah-Tarek Kouninef, who paved their way to the Algerian market, behind bars.

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2020

Tunisia
Korea's LS Cable & System wins first contract with STEG

Korea's LS Cable & System has made its debut on the Tunisian market with an impressive project.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 27.10.2020

Libya
Al Kabir places his men at head of Libyan Foreign Bank to keep eye on petrodollars

The Central Bank of Libya governor has positioned his strongmen on the provisional board of the LFB, which handles all of NOC's petrodollars, as part of his power struggle against Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj.

Subscribers only Business 26.10.2020

The governor of the Libyan central bank, Al Seddik Omar Al Kabir.

West Africa
Barkhane, Sabre, FFCI... military services giant Ecolog struggles to win French army logistics contracts

Emirati group Ecolog was approached to challenge the Bolloré group for the contract to transport supplies to the French armed forces in the Sahel and Ivory Coast but, finally, failed to bid in time. It has nevertheless held on to its UN contract in Mali and is developing its business in South Sudan.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 26.10.2020

A group of Barkhane foot hunters during an operation to combat armed terrorist groups in Burkina Faso (2019).

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Business

Morocco
Prince Moulay Abdelaziz plays booking agent for Morocco... and his mother's hotels in Dakhla

Tunisia
MP Yassine Ayari and tax authority hound Maersk

East Africa
Former Scatec Solar vice president plans to invest in renewable energy projects all over Africa

Ivory Coast
Finactu, the maestro of Ivorian expats' savings

Morocco
Al Mada eyes Marrakech Airport privatisation

Spotlight | Africa
World Bank agonises over choice of new CEO for International Finance Corporation

DRC
Unlikely German trio push spectacular 10,000 km rail project

Madagascar
Ravatomanga's discreet associate back in business

Morocco
Western Sahara: ONDA to invest €1m in improvements to Dakhla airport

Algeria
BPC Banking Technologies takes Noah-Tarek Kouninef prison sentence in its stride

Tunisia
Korea's LS Cable & System wins first contract with STEG

Libya
Al Kabir places his men at head of Libyan Foreign Bank to keep eye on petrodollars

West Africa
Barkhane, Sabre, FFCI... military services giant Ecolog struggles to win French army logistics contracts

Morocco
Hilton moves in with Abu Dhabi royal family in luxury Rabat seaside resort

Ivory Coast
PR agency 35°Nord to open office in Abidjan

Senegal
Eiffage overtakes ex-ministre Thierno Lô's Sotracom on Dakar autonomous port contract

Senegal
Courts to rule on Sendou power station debts

Tunisia
ABCI and Tunis try ICSID mediation to settle 21-year battle over BFT

Egypt, Uganda
Ukraine's Techimpex parades upgraded BMP-1 combat vehicle in Cairo and Kampala

Morocco
Jet Energy prospects for solar projects on continent

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Morocco Prince Moulay Abdelaziz plays booking agent for Morocco... and his mother's hotels in Dakhla

Tunisia MP Yassine Ayari and tax authority hound Maersk

East Africa Former Scatec Solar vice president plans to invest in renewable energy projects all over Africa

Ivory Coast Finactu, the maestro of Ivorian expats' savings

Morocco Al Mada eyes Marrakech Airport privatisation

Spotlight | Africa World Bank agonises over choice of new CEO for International Finance Corporation

DRC Unlikely German trio push spectacular 10,000 km rail project

Madagascar Ravatomanga's discreet associate back in business

Morocco Western Sahara: ONDA to invest €1m in improvements to Dakhla airport

Algeria BPC Banking Technologies takes Noah-Tarek Kouninef prison sentence in its stride

Tunisia Korea's LS Cable & System wins first contract with STEG

Libya Al Kabir places his men at head of Libyan Foreign Bank to keep eye on petrodollars

West Africa Barkhane, Sabre, FFCI... military services giant Ecolog struggles to win French army logistics contracts

Morocco Hilton moves in with Abu Dhabi royal family in luxury Rabat seaside resort

Ivory Coast PR agency 35°Nord to open office in Abidjan

Senegal Eiffage overtakes ex-ministre Thierno Lô's Sotracom on Dakar autonomous port contract

Senegal Courts to rule on Sendou power station debts

Tunisia ABCI and Tunis try ICSID mediation to settle 21-year battle over BFT

Egypt, Uganda Ukraine's Techimpex parades upgraded BMP-1 combat vehicle in Cairo and Kampala

Morocco Jet Energy prospects for solar projects on continent

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About Africa Intelligence

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Indigo Publications' websites

Morocco
Prince Moulay Abdelaziz plays booking agent for Morocco... and his mother's hotels in Dakhla

Tunisia
MP Yassine Ayari and tax authority hound Maersk

East Africa
Former Scatec Solar vice president plans to invest in renewable energy projects all over Africa

Ivory Coast
Finactu, the maestro of Ivorian expats' savings

Morocco
Al Mada eyes Marrakech Airport privatisation

Spotlight | Africa
World Bank agonises over choice of new CEO for International Finance Corporation

DRC
Unlikely German trio push spectacular 10,000 km rail project

Madagascar
Ravatomanga's discreet associate back in business

Morocco
Western Sahara: ONDA to invest €1m in improvements to Dakhla airport

Algeria
BPC Banking Technologies takes Noah-Tarek Kouninef prison sentence in its stride

Tunisia
Korea's LS Cable & System wins first contract with STEG

Libya
Al Kabir places his men at head of Libyan Foreign Bank to keep eye on petrodollars

West Africa
Barkhane, Sabre, FFCI... military services giant Ecolog struggles to win French army logistics contracts

Morocco
Hilton moves in with Abu Dhabi royal family in luxury Rabat seaside resort

Ivory Coast
PR agency 35°Nord to open office in Abidjan

Senegal
Eiffage overtakes ex-ministre Thierno Lô's Sotracom on Dakar autonomous port contract

Senegal
Courts to rule on Sendou power station debts

Tunisia
ABCI and Tunis try ICSID mediation to settle 21-year battle over BFT

Egypt, Uganda
Ukraine's Techimpex parades upgraded BMP-1 combat vehicle in Cairo and Kampala

Morocco
Jet Energy prospects for solar projects on continent