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Senegal
Diomaye Faye turns to Petronas after BP's Yakaar-Teranga gas exit

The Senegalese government is looking for a new partner for the vast Yakaar-Teranga gas field, and the Malaysian multinational is high on its shortlist.

Morocco
Kylian Mbappé's PR guru sets up in Morocco

Patricia Goldman, who counts Renault, Air France and Huawei among her clients, will be assisted by a Casablanca-based agency in her bid to grow her business in Morocco and across Africa.

The New Guard
Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

TanzaniaHappy Itros Sanga, a committed eco-entrepreneur

EthiopiaMaya Misikir, self-taught journalist serving the Ethiopian readership

NigeriaSolape Hammond, Lagos start-up queen

Palace Intrigues
Emmanuel Macron, William Ruto, Alassane Ouattara, Isabel Dos Santos, Chanel

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

France/KenyaWilliam Ruto keeps Emmanuel Macron waiting

Ivory CoastAlassane Ouattara's prized African art museum

AngolaIsabel Dos Santos calls Embalo to the rescue

SenegalChanel VIPs visit Dakar

West Africa
Kosmos execs between a rock and a hard place as frontier exploration ends

The US junior now wants to limit itself to exploration near its existing infrastructure. The decision has led to the departure of several executives who favour the firm's traditional frontier exploration approach.

Ivory Coast
Khady Dior Ndiaye, Kosmos' first country manager

While it has been in possession of five offshore blocks in partnership with BP since 2017, Kosmos Energy has only [...]

Morocco
Designer Chafik Gasmi opens his studio in Casablanca

The celebrated Algerian designer, Chafik Gasmi, has set up shop [...]

Tunisia
Djilani quits the textile trade

The former boss of the UTICA employers federation, Hedi Djilani, [...]

Senegal
Corruption drive leads to minister’s ex.

Aminata Toure, Senegal’s justice minister and a former Time magazine “leader of the 21st century” will apparently stop at nothing to bring corruption to its knees in Senegal - even if that means detaining her ex-husband.

Morocco
Yves Saint Laurent Soon in Business

Luxury goods seem impervious to crisis. While a number of deluxe stores have put off plans to open up in [...]

Morocco
Sarkozy in Morocco with Industry Captains

France reaped a fairly rich harvest from president Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit to Morocco: orders for a TGV train, a [...]

Madagascar
Sarko's Boys in Antananarivo

Although the French socialist party candidate Ségolène Royal was largely in the lead among French people voting in Madagascar in [...]

Algeria
McDonalds

McDonalds is seeking space to open its first fast-food outlets [...]

South Africa
Alain Lorenzo

Currently president and chief executive officer of eLuxury, which sells brand-name goods and services of LVMH on the Internet, Alain [...]

Spotlight | Mozambique
CHISSANO WOWS THEM

On his official visit to Paris this week, Mozambican head of state Joaquim Chissano packed them in: 130 people for the lecture he gave at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, a hundred or so for the dinner in his [.