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Tunisia
With Valoria, Veolia takes larger slice of Tunis waste disposal market

Valoria has won a contract for the collection of household and other waste in Soukra, a municipality run by Ennahda member Fairouz Ben Jemaa.

Subscribers only Business 29.07.2020

Kenya, Uganda
I&M Holdings swallows Karia and Morjaria clans' prized bank

The two leading Ugandan families accepted to sell nearly all of Orient Bank to the Kenyan financial services giant on 17 July, spelling the end of a decade of trying to keep control of the struggling bank.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 28.07.2020

Ivory Coast
Secret contract: Ouattara orders two Israel Shipyards patrol boats behind navy's back

An OPV 45 patrol boat.© Israel Shipyards

Subscribers only Defence, Business 28.07.2020

Guinea, Morocco, Sudan
Covid-19: Managem charters RAM plane to bring home executives stranded in Sudan, Guinea

Managem, part of Al Mada, repatriates executives stranded by Covid-19 in Sudan and Guinea aboard chartered Air Maroc plane.

Subscribers only Business 28.07.2020

In Focus | Tunisia, West Africa
Blacklisted by Facebook, Lotfi Bel Hadj becomes Togo's official publicist

Franco-Tunisian publicist Lotfi Bel Hadj.© BFM Business

Subscribers only Politics, Business 27.07.2020

DRC
Busanga dam construction hits home stretch

Despite controversy over the real identity of some its shareholders, the Busanga hydroelectric dam is almost finished.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 27.07.2020

Spotlight | DRC, East Africa
Erik Prince turns increasingly towards Africa

Frontier Services Group, the private security company headed by former American special forces officer Erik Prince, has changed strategy. It is reallocating funds destined to fuel its growth in China and Pakistan to the DRC and Africa generally.

Subscribers only Mining, Business 24.07.2020

The founder of Frontier Services Group (FSG) Erik Prince.

Tunisia
Defence industry: no made-in-Bizerte armored vehicles for Turkey's Nurol Makina

Unlike other Turkish defence firms, whose presence has been growing in Tunisia, Nurol Makina has decided to abandon its project to assemble armoured personnel carriers in the country.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 24.07.2020

Djibouti
Doraleh Port: UAE oil port manager Abass moves into supply services with Marine Tankers

Ships passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait can now refuel from a new supplier, the brand new Marine Tankers Offshore Services Supply that opened its doors mid-July.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 24.07.2020

Kenya
KeNHA opens bidding for Makupa Bridge contract

The Kenya National Highways Agency (Kenha) has at last launched the call for tenders for the Makupa Bridge project first announced by the local authorities in 2017.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 24.07.2020

Ivory Coast
France's Sogea-Satom and Chinese rivals snap up road contracts

The subsidiary of the construction company Vinci, which was the only French firm to have responded to a tender call for several roadworks contracts in the greater Abidjan area, has more than held its own against rival Chinese giants who were also in the running.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 23.07.2020

Africa, Kenya
Kenyan businessman Julius Mwale backs rapper Akon's cryptocurrency

The American rapper and businessman Akon is relying on his Kenyan partner Julius Mwale to help him launch his Akoin cryptocurrency in Mwale's very own Mwale Medical and Technology City and to organise subcontractors for him.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 23.07.2020

Algeria
Social Housing: Tebboune's Turkish favourites, Dekinsan and Atlas, win contracts worth $171m

The two Turkish construction firms which have scooped vast contracts to build social housing had previously won numerous no-bid contracts when President Tebboune was housing minister.

Free access Business 23.07.2020

Congo
Commisimpex Affair: As they battle it out in French courts, Hojeij and Sassou hold secret talks in Beirut

Engaged in extensive foreclosure operations in Paris, Lebanese entrepreneur Mohsen Hojeij, who is seeking to recover €1.2bn from Congo, is holding very hush-hush talks with the president's office.

Subscribers only Business 23.07.2020

Morocco
Mohammed VI's air force puts $1 billion retrofit of F-16 fighter fleet on hold

The Moroccan air force has suspended its programme to modernise its fleet of fighter planes, which was negotiated last year with the Pentagon and US State Department, but the purchase of new aircraft still looks likely to go ahead.

Subscribers only Business 23.07.2020

DRC, South Africa
Pretoria takes cautious steps on Inga III

South Africa, which is counting on output from the Congolese mega-dam to alleviate its troubled electricity public utility Eskom, is nonetheless sceptical of Kinshasa's ability to carry out the project.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics, Business 22.07.2020

Morocco
Minister of Interior Abdelouali Laftit slams Alj clan's control of employers' association

The "Sardine King" Saïd Alj is being dragged in the conflict between the Minister of Interior and his nephew Chakib Alj, who chairs Morocco's employers' body.

Subscribers only Business 22.07.2020

Africa, Canada
Canadian "Warren Buffett" excludes his banks from deal for big new African investment group

Canadian financier Prem Watsa, who heads the giant Fairfax investment group, announced plans to bring fellow investment giant Helios into the capital of his African subsidiary, Fairfax Africa, on 10 July. Fairfax Africa will divest itself of its struggling African banks, however, before Helios proceeds with its investment.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 22.07.2020

Africa, Mozambique, United States
From Cabo Delgado to the Sahel, Crisis Response embedded in Washington's African strategy

Texan defence contractor Crisis Response Co, which already has an extensive presence in Africa, is to strengthen its intelligence-gathering capacities in Mozambique for the US while it continues to expand in West Africa.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 22.07.2020

Morocco
Outgoing RAM boss Abdelhamid Addou begins major asset sell-off

National airline Royal Air Maroc, which is in great financial difficulty, is ready to sell off more than 50% of its assets. Its airport assistance business is one of those in line for the chop.

Subscribers only Business 21.07.2020

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Tunisia
With Valoria, Veolia takes larger slice of Tunis waste disposal market

Kenya, Uganda
I&M Holdings swallows Karia and Morjaria clans' prized bank

Ivory Coast
Secret contract: Ouattara orders two Israel Shipyards patrol boats behind navy's back

Guinea, Morocco, Sudan
Covid-19: Managem charters RAM plane to bring home executives stranded in Sudan, Guinea

In Focus | Tunisia, West Africa
Blacklisted by Facebook, Lotfi Bel Hadj becomes Togo's official publicist

DRC
Busanga dam construction hits home stretch

Spotlight | DRC, East Africa
Erik Prince turns increasingly towards Africa

Tunisia
Defence industry: no made-in-Bizerte armored vehicles for Turkey's Nurol Makina

Djibouti
Doraleh Port: UAE oil port manager Abass moves into supply services with Marine Tankers

Kenya
KeNHA opens bidding for Makupa Bridge contract

Ivory Coast
France's Sogea-Satom and Chinese rivals snap up road contracts

Africa, Kenya
Kenyan businessman Julius Mwale backs rapper Akon's cryptocurrency

Algeria
Social Housing: Tebboune's Turkish favourites, Dekinsan and Atlas, win contracts worth $171m

Congo
Commisimpex Affair: As they battle it out in French courts, Hojeij and Sassou hold secret talks in Beirut

Morocco
Mohammed VI's air force puts $1 billion retrofit of F-16 fighter fleet on hold

DRC, South Africa
Pretoria takes cautious steps on Inga III

Morocco
Minister of Interior Abdelouali Laftit slams Alj clan's control of employers' association

Africa, Canada
Canadian "Warren Buffett" excludes his banks from deal for big new African investment group

Africa, Mozambique, United States
From Cabo Delgado to the Sahel, Crisis Response embedded in Washington's African strategy

Morocco
Outgoing RAM boss Abdelhamid Addou begins major asset sell-off

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Tunisia With Valoria, Veolia takes larger slice of Tunis waste disposal market

Kenya, Uganda I&M Holdings swallows Karia and Morjaria clans' prized bank

Ivory Coast Secret contract: Ouattara orders two Israel Shipyards patrol boats behind navy's back

Guinea, Morocco, Sudan Covid-19: Managem charters RAM plane to bring home executives stranded in Sudan, Guinea

In Focus | Tunisia, West Africa Blacklisted by Facebook, Lotfi Bel Hadj becomes Togo's official publicist

DRC Busanga dam construction hits home stretch

Spotlight | DRC, East Africa Erik Prince turns increasingly towards Africa

Tunisia Defence industry: no made-in-Bizerte armored vehicles for Turkey's Nurol Makina

Djibouti Doraleh Port: UAE oil port manager Abass moves into supply services with Marine Tankers

Kenya KeNHA opens bidding for Makupa Bridge contract

Ivory Coast France's Sogea-Satom and Chinese rivals snap up road contracts

Africa, Kenya Kenyan businessman Julius Mwale backs rapper Akon's cryptocurrency

Algeria Social Housing: Tebboune's Turkish favourites, Dekinsan and Atlas, win contracts worth $171m

Congo Commisimpex Affair: As they battle it out in French courts, Hojeij and Sassou hold secret talks in Beirut

Morocco Mohammed VI's air force puts $1 billion retrofit of F-16 fighter fleet on hold

DRC, South Africa Pretoria takes cautious steps on Inga III

Morocco Minister of Interior Abdelouali Laftit slams Alj clan's control of employers' association

Africa, Canada Canadian "Warren Buffett" excludes his banks from deal for big new African investment group

Africa, Mozambique, United States From Cabo Delgado to the Sahel, Crisis Response embedded in Washington's African strategy

Morocco Outgoing RAM boss Abdelhamid Addou begins major asset sell-off

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Tunisia
With Valoria, Veolia takes larger slice of Tunis waste disposal market

Kenya, Uganda
I&M Holdings swallows Karia and Morjaria clans' prized bank

Ivory Coast
Secret contract: Ouattara orders two Israel Shipyards patrol boats behind navy's back

Guinea, Morocco, Sudan
Covid-19: Managem charters RAM plane to bring home executives stranded in Sudan, Guinea

In Focus | Tunisia, West Africa
Blacklisted by Facebook, Lotfi Bel Hadj becomes Togo's official publicist

DRC
Busanga dam construction hits home stretch

Spotlight | DRC, East Africa
Erik Prince turns increasingly towards Africa

Tunisia
Defence industry: no made-in-Bizerte armored vehicles for Turkey's Nurol Makina

Djibouti
Doraleh Port: UAE oil port manager Abass moves into supply services with Marine Tankers

Kenya
KeNHA opens bidding for Makupa Bridge contract

Ivory Coast
France's Sogea-Satom and Chinese rivals snap up road contracts

Africa, Kenya
Kenyan businessman Julius Mwale backs rapper Akon's cryptocurrency

Algeria
Social Housing: Tebboune's Turkish favourites, Dekinsan and Atlas, win contracts worth $171m

Congo
Commisimpex Affair: As they battle it out in French courts, Hojeij and Sassou hold secret talks in Beirut

Morocco
Mohammed VI's air force puts $1 billion retrofit of F-16 fighter fleet on hold

DRC, South Africa
Pretoria takes cautious steps on Inga III

Morocco
Minister of Interior Abdelouali Laftit slams Alj clan's control of employers' association

Africa, Canada
Canadian "Warren Buffett" excludes his banks from deal for big new African investment group

Africa, Mozambique, United States
From Cabo Delgado to the Sahel, Crisis Response embedded in Washington's African strategy

Morocco
Outgoing RAM boss Abdelhamid Addou begins major asset sell-off