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Africa
How Seoul is trying to monopolise the continent's e-customs

The market leader in electronic customs systems, South Korea is striving to impose its solutions in Africa.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 09.10.2019

Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara wages a double campaign

Alassane Ouattara and his protégé Amadou Gon Coulibaly embarked on a series of rallies in late September as the 2020 election looms, but there is another, silent, campaign being waged at the treasury, the tax office and the electoral commission.

Subscribers only Politics 09.10.2019

Mauritania, Qatar
Emir al-Thani courts Nouakchott

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz having abruptly severed diplomatic ties with Doha in June 2017, the oil-rich Gulf state is hoping the arrival of the new president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani will revive its relations with Mauritania.

Subscribers only Politics 09.10.2019

West Africa
Why the EU is holding back its latest G5 Sahel contribution

Due to the slowness of operators managing its contributions to the Sahel force, the EU may decide to disburse its funds directly through budgetary aid.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 09.10.2019

Senegal
Rabat's business diplomacy offensive

The Moroccan minister of foreign affairs, Nasser Bourita, is due to travel to Dakar in the coming weeks. The invitation [...]

Free access Politics 09.10.2019

Africa, France
Macron receives Chirac's advisors

In the afternoon of Monday 7 October, Emmanuel Macron received [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.10.2019

Niger
Issoufou's burgeoning assets since 2011

According to an assessment based on official documents, the form [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.10.2019

Benin, Niger
Patrice Talon and Boni Yayi fail to hook up

Patrice Talon had asked his Nigerien counterpart, Mahamadou Issoufou, to [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 09.10.2019

Ivory Coast
Laurent Gbagbo seeks to isolate Simone within FPI

The former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo has asked several of [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 09.10.2019

Mauritania, Senegal
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani to visit Macky Sall

The Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani will travel to the [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 09.10.2019

Africa
Control Risks, Abu Dhabi's private consultant for its African diplomacy

For several months now, the Emirati foreign ministry has been [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 09.10.2019

Mali
UN expert group rebooted

A slightly modified United Nations group of experts will be [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.10.2019

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
ExxonMobil & Co: Trump worried about Obiang's thirst for oil independence

The American government's support of Teodoro Obiang Nguema's regime, in power since 1979, is being to waver. Malabo's handling of ExxonMobil and other American firms' interests and its desire to work more with European, Russian and Chinese firm are beginning [.

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Benin, Niger
CNPC: secret financial arrangement afoot for export pipeline?

The Chinese major has already crunched the numbers to see how it will make a profit from the pipeline to Benin. The latest revelations.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy 08.10.2019

Nigeria
Mature field sale: ExxonMobil shifts into top gear

With President Buhari's new oil team in place at last, the American major has hit the ground running for its grand asset sale plan.

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Senegal
Sparks fly at BP boss Dudley's meeting with President Sall in NY

At the British major's request, Macky Sall agreed to meet and discuss the Aliou Sall/Timis that led to an encounter where both sides were ready to talk tough.

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Ivory Coast, Senegal
PESG's team of oil bigwigs works its moves on Cisse

The fledgling Ivorian services firm Panafrican Energy Services Group (PESG), headed by the former Ivorian country manager for Halliburton, Guy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Senegal
APCL drops a "Timis-friendly" Betto Seraglini for arbitral defence

African Petroleum will now be represented before the ICSID by Eversheds Sutherland.

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Nigeria
How did Dubai emir's cousin get the better of ADM Energy?

Ahmed bin Dalmook Al Maktoum, who briefly chaired ADM, used his name to bump up the company share price and sell his interest just 10 weeks later.

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Niger
Why did oil minister Pierre Foumakoye Gado step up a rung?

Pierre Foumakoye Gado, who has been the Nigerien minister of petroleum without interruption since 2011, was appointed the higher role [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Senegal
New FAR boss Bruno Delanoue, treading on a minefield

Recently appointed country director for the Australian junior firm FAR in Senegal, French national Bruno Delanoue will need to draw [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Ivory Coast
Cairn Energy comes out of period in purgatory to team up with Tullow Oil

According to our sources, the company that discovered the SNE [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2019

Benin, France, Niger
Africarail arbitration ruling due in early 2020

West African rail loop contract is at the heart of a legal row pitting company against Niger and Benin.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 07.10.2019

Tracks of the Africarail West African rail loop project.

West Africa
EU and GIZ back diamond traceability in Mano River

The European Union (EU) and German cooperation agency GIZ will [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.10.2019

Burkina Faso
Artisanal Gold Council adds muscle to fight against mercury in mines

Officially launched in Ouagadougou on September 12 in the presence [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.10.2019

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