Bpifrance

Congo
Sassou's packed Parisian schedule

On the sidelines of the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris, Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso is due to meet a number of French business leaders on 23 June.

Morocco
Mohammed VI's start-up fund swings into action

Yassine Soual, a former director of investments at Bpifrance, has just joined the continent's largest fund dedicated to start-ups, Al-Mada Venture Capital.

Palace Intrigues
William Ruto, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Kaïs Saïed, Ben Moctar Maouloud

Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

KenyaState House employees find First Lady's fasting hard to swallow

CongoDenis Sassou Nguesso honours his oilmen

TunisiaKaïs Saïed blocks football boss from attending FIFA congress

Ivory CoastBen Moctar Maouloud courts French arms companies at Bpifrance salon

Ivory Coast
Bpifrance 'speed dating' event set to boost French defence industry

A defence security meeting in Abidjan scheduled for 13 to 16 March aims to match around 30 French companies with securocrats from Ivory Coast. The event will be headed up by Bpifrance and overseen by Paris.

Guinea
Bpifrance set to finalise Eiffage's €200m hospital contract

The state-owned French investment bank Bpifrance is working on the final details of a €198m contract that construction firm Eiffage won last month to build regional university hospitals in four towns in Guinea.

Ivory Coast
Bpifrance ready to help Eiffage develop rice production

French public investment bank Bpfrance is contemplating financing a project aimed at boosting rice growing in the east of Ivory Coast and led by Eiffage subsidiary RMT

South Africa
Bpifrance sets out to conquer Southern Africa

A delegation from the French state investment bank will visit Johannesburg this month with a view to opening a regional office there. The South African economic capital is also favoured to host the bank's new Africa department, with a launch planned for January.

Togo
Lomé in market for Raidco Marine helicopter patrol boat

The Togolese navy is in advanced negotiations with the French firm to acquire a 70-metre surveillance vessel to help fight piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

Guinea
Conakry turns to French bank Natixis to finance 'Côtière' power line

Guinea has asked Natixis to submit a financing offer for a project to supply electricity to the northwest of the country, a major bauxite mining area where a range of foreign and domestic mining firms are active.

Guinea
Bpifrance moves further into Guinea

The public investment bank is working with the transitional authorities to advance several projects, including the supply of a system to secure the country's airspace, designed by the defense giant Thales.

Ghana
Ocea and Wight merger reshuffles Accra patrol boat market

Finalised in March, the merger between France's Vendée-based shipyard Ocea and the UK's Wight Shipyard has stoked the French shipbuilder's hopes for Ghana Navy's patrol boat market.

France, Nigeria
French firm Prométhée set to launch 20 nanosatellites for Nigeria's space agency

Nigerian science minister Ogbonnaya Onu is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with the French company Prométhée in May, which is likely to lead to the purchase of 20 nanosatellites destined to contribute to counterterrorism and border security activities.

France, Nigeria
French defence industry arrives in force in Abuja

Representatives of some 20 French companies have booked a string of speed dates with the Nigerian armed forces and police in Abuja next week. The government agency Business France and the French military procurement service DGA will be overseeing this promotional drill.