Paul Kagame

DRC
Unease grows over Kagame opposition plans to meet in Kinshasa

Though postponed, a gathering of 60 Rwandans from the worlds of politics, civil society and academia planned for early this month in an attempt to unify the opposition to Paul Kagame could further degrade relations between Kinshasa and Kigali.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Félix Tshisekedi, Mahamat Idriss Déby

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

Ivory Coast Ouattara and Sassou neatly avoid the Soro issue

DRC Tshisekedi calls up Israeli counterpart for support

Cameroon Did the Chadian ambassador stay or go?

The New Guard
Nigeria, Mozambique and Rwanda

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

NigeriaBimbola Kolawole, a rising energy expert

MozambiqueErnesto Max Elias Tonela, Nyusi's rep in Paris

RwandaTesi Rusagara, the builder of Kigali Innovation City

DRC, Rwanda
Neither Kagame nor Tshisekedi to attend Macron's Paris summit

Neither Kagame nor Tshisekedi will attend Macron's summit for a new global financial deal, to be held in Paris on the 22 and 23 June.

Angola
More MPLA associates do well out of privatisation programme

The list of winners in the 2019-2022 privatisation programme is growing. It includes honorary consuls, some foreign entrepreneurs and Angolan businessmen with ties to the president's office.

Egypt, Ethiopia
Egypt and Ethiopia at loggerheads over AU human resources budget

Frosty relations between Addis Ababa and Cairo as a result of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project are likely to stall processes in the African Union. The Egyptian head of the budget subcommittee still refuses to agree to a budget increase which would allow staff on temporary contracts, many of whom are Ethiopian, to be given a permanent status.

DRC
Tshisekedi forced to reshuffle intelligence chiefs after ANR boss taken ill

ANR intelligence agency boss Jean-Hervé Mbelu Biosha's health problems have forced DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi to rush through a security services reshuffle that had been on the cards for at least a year.

Guinea
Rwanda's Aldira set to bag deal to build gold refinery in Conakry

The Rwandan company Aldira, led by Jean de Dieu Mutunzi, is poised to sign a contract with the Guinean state to build the country's first gold refinery.

DRC
Tshisekedi sceptical of future of Addis framework peace agreement

DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi does not look favourably on potential future discussions on a "re-evaluation" of the 2013 Addis Ababa framework agreement for peace in the DRC and the Great Lakes region.

DRC
CENI turns down international offer to audit electoral roll

Rather than accept an offer by four organisations - among them the African Union and UN - the DRC's electoral commission has called for expressions of interest in conducting an audit of the country's electoral register.