Joseph Kabila

DRC
DRC military boosted by Turkish armoured vehicles

Turkish armoured vehicle manufacturer Katmerciler has finalised a contract worth tens of millions of dollars with Kinshasa that had been stalled since 2020.

Algeria
Cuban Africa expert appointed ambassador to Algiers

Cuba is sending a diplomatic heavyweight to Algiers in the person of Hector Igarza Cabrera as its new ambassador. He previously served in Canada, where he worked for the lifting of part of the US embargo.

DRC
Luc Gérard Nyafé's takeover of Banro runs into headwinds

Namoya Mine personnel have accused the DRC entrepreneur of not keeping his promises on jobs and the resumption of operations at the gold mine. Meanwhile, former deputy mines minister Victor Kasongo is laying claim to ownership of the site.

Palace Intrigues
Emmanuel Macron and Andry Rajoelina, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Gims, Dadju, Chantal Biya

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

MadagascarMacron discreetly calls Rajoelina

GabonOligui Nguema flies Air Omar

CongoENI books Gims and Dadju for private concert

CameroonChantal Biya's highly political birthday bash

Equatorial Guinea, Kenya
Lukashenko selects intriguing team for his African tour

On his visit to Equatorial Guinea and then Kenya, the Belarusian leader was accompanied by certain figures without an obvious connection to the stated goal of his trip, namely agriculture and healthcare.

DRC
‘Prophet' Mukungubila eager to return from South African exile

The self-proclaimed "prophet of the eternal", Pastor Paul Joseph Mukungubila, is champing at the bit to return home to the DRC after a decade in exile in South Africa.

Palace Intrigues
Emmanuel Macron, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Dan Gertler, Faustin-Archange Touadéra

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

FranceMacron's new ‘Mr Africa' to start in January

GabonOmer Laviv, Dan Gertler's go-between with Oligui Nguema

Central African RepublicRussian deputy defence minister misses Touadéra on Bangui stopover

LibyaParis embassy diplomat chastised by Quai d'Orsay

DRC
Belgian ambassador's low-profile meeting with Joseph Kabila

On her first official visit to the country in late November, Belgium's ambassador to the DRC, Roxane de Bilderling, travelled to Lubumbashi and met with former president Joseph Kabila.

DRC
French foreign ministry's Africa director expected in Kinshasa

Christophe Bigot, head of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Africa and Indian Ocean Division (DAOI), will arrive in Kinshasa on 8 November.