Elections

Nigeria
S2M eyes army vehicle repair contract ahead of elections

French defence company S2M-Equipment is hoping to bag a deal with the Nigerian Army to bring up to a hundred light vehicles, mainly French-made Panhard AMLs, back into operational condition.

DRC
M23 clashes complicate voter enrolment process

Voter registration for the DRC's presidential and legislative elections scheduled for the end of 2023 is complicated, particularly in the east, due to the security crisis linked to clashes between the M23 rebels and the army.

South Africa
COSATU president fights for control to save ANC alliance

The Congress of South African Trade Unions' pro-Ramaphosa president, Zingiswa Losi, seems to have managed to quell the discontent at the top of her organisation after her opponents wanted to split with the ruling party.

Spotlight | Nigeria
Lebanese billionaire Chagoury banks on presidential candidate Bola Tinubu

Franco-Lebanese businessman Gilbert Chagoury, who lives in Paris, is banking on Bola Tinubu becoming Nigeria's new president after next year's elections. He is hoping to regain the influence he enjoyed under Sani Abacha, the country's military junta leader in the 1990s.

Tunisia
Saïed's supporters set their campaign in motion ahead of legislative elections

Members of the president's inner circle have been busy preparing for the upcoming parliamentary elections by launching a new initiative with the aim not only of spreading the president's political vision but of winning seats in the new parliament.

Madagascar
Electoral commission boss keen to recoup vehicles taken by former team

After arriving at the head of Madagascar's Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) at the end of 2021, Arsène Dama was surprised to discover that the former team led by Hery Rakotomanana had not returned the 4X4 Mitsubishi Pajero Sports made available to them.

Tunisia
EU and Tunis discuss deployment of observers for parliamentary elections

The European Union is in talks with Tunis to send observers to monitor the Tunisian legislative elections scheduled for 17 December.

Central Africa, DRC
Elections 2023: INEC's financing still a bone of contention

Doubts remain over whether the timetable for elections scheduled in the DRC at the end of 2023 will be respected. Denis Kadima, head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), regularly rants in private about the pace of the Ministry of Finance's disbursements.

DRC
Electoral commission head grapples with question of diaspora vote

Denis Kadima, the head of the DRC's national electoral commission [...]

The New Guard
Guinea, Cameroon, Egypt and Zimbabwe

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

GuineaMoussa Moise Sylla, the former journalist who earned Doumbouya's trust

CameroonGuy Gweth, catalyst of Francophone economic intelligence

EgyptRami El-Dokany, from the Arab Federation of Capital Markets to the Egyptian Exchange.

ZimbabweJoana Mamombe, a youthful asset for Nelson Chamisa's presidential ambitions.

The New Guard
South Africa, Uganda, Morocco, Algeria

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

South Africa Fasiha Hassan, Gauteng's MPL pushing to rejuvenate ANC

Uganda Elison Karuhanga, the Lake Albert-connected oil lawyer

Morocco Boucharab, former IT chief of OCP, LVMH and Total, heads into the cloud

Algeria Benghanem keen to put Algeria back on investors' radar

Nigeria
Seplat heads at daggers drawn over ExxonMobil block buyout

The discord between the presidency and the regulator NURPC has led to the deal between US major ExxonMobil and Nigerian junior Seplat reaching an impasse, and the chances of resolving it are getting smaller each day.