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Somalia, Somaliland
Curious disappearances in Musa Bihi Abdi's entourage…

According to our information, Somaliland's ambassador in Nairobi, Bashe Awil [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.03.2020

Spotlight | Libya
With no Haftar-Bachagha deal, Tripoli fighting continues

Following the failure of the humanitarian truce called for on March 18 by the United Nations to prevent the coronavirus (Covid-19) spreading in Libya, nothing seems likely to stop the fighting in Tripoli between Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.03.2020

Tunisia
Martial Saïed faces Covid-19 alone

Kaïs Saïed has gone into martial mode in the face of the new coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). He introduced a curfew [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.03.2020

Algeria
Chengriha involves DSI in politics

Army chief of staff Saïd Chengriha is not waiting for the intelligence services to be reformed to place military intelligence [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.03.2020

Libya
Haftar bungles Covid-19 response

The repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic could cost General Khalifa Haftar dear in eastern Libya. His crisis management has been [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.03.2020

Algeria
Judge Bouchiouane takes charge of penal affairs and pardons

Abdelmadjid Tebboune has appointed Mohamed Bouchiouane director of penal affairs [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.03.2020

Libya
Oussama al Jouili in the firing line following his defeat in Watiya

The failure of the operation carried out on March 25 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.03.2020

Africa
The UN's closed-door briefing on the economic impact of COVID-19

According to a confidential briefing given to scores of senior African officials during a virtual meeting organised by the UN earlier this month, the novel coronavirus pandemic is projected to almost halve economic growth in Africa in 2020, generating a loss of some $29 billion.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics 25.03.2020

Guinea, Mali
Bamako and Conakry give a jolt to electrical interconnection scheme

After almost two years of delays, Guinea and Mali have issued a tender for the construction of a power line between N'Zérékoré and Sanankoroba.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics 23.03.2020

Kenya
Government invites bids for study of future Nairobi ring road

The Kenya Urban Roads Authority has issued a tender for a prefeasibility study of the Nairobi Beltway PPP (public-private partnership) [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics 23.03.2020

DRC
Coronavirus pandemic thwarts Kinshasa's plans for Banana port

The office of President Felix Tshisekedi, who wants to open [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics 23.03.2020

Spotlight | Morocco
Paris offers €2.2 bn for high-speed line, Beijing €1.4 bn

Negotiations on the contract to build the future Kénitra-Marrakesh-Agadir high-speed rail line are forging ahead. France, which has been negotiating for several months with transport minister Abdelkader Amara and finance minister Mohamed Benchaâboun, is optimistic about the chances of the [.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics 19.03.2020

Morocco
Benchaâboun heads coronavirus fund

Finance minister Mohamed Benchaâboun is to take charge of the special fund for management of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) response [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Libya
Haftar pushes his advantage in Ramla

General Khalifa Haftar's forces are still active in the Ramla area, west of Tripoli, where they made limited but symbolic [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Libya
Austria and Hungary scupper Eunavfor

European Union (EU) high representative for external affairs and security policy Josep Borrell's proposal to revive the Eunavfor Med naval [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Libya
Defence attaché Benoit de la Ruelle set to leave Libyan embassy

Colonel Benoit de la Ruelle, defence attaché at the French [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Tunisia
Moez Labidi to be Elyès Fakhfakh's financial guide

Moez Labidi, who was appointed an adviser to prime minister [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Algeria
Bouteflika era stalwart Bouchema pops up at industry ministry

New industry and mines minister Ferhat Aït Ali Braham, who [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Cameroon
Cavaye Yeguié Djibril makes it back to parliament just in time

On 14 March, the 80-year-old speaker of the Cameroonian parliament, Cavaye Yeguié Djibril , took one of the very last [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Congo
Ludovic Ngatsé takes over as negotiator with IMF

Faced with the possibility that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may delay for a second time its deliberations on the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

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