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The New Guard
Chad, Guinea, Sudan

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

Chad Nair Abakar passes from engineer to football ambassador

Guinea Ex-journalist Kourouma polishes his country's image at the EU

Sudan Mayada Adil, the doctor who speaks for Sudanese women

South Sudan
Egyptian giant Elsewedy Electric lodges complaint against Juba

Elsewedy Electric filed a complaint against the South Sudanese Ministry of Energy and Dams with the ICSID in late September.

DRC
Fortescue to decide by year end whether to continue on Grand Inga megadams

After Congolese authorities blocked the project for over a year, the Australian firm has now given itself until the end of 2023 to decide whether or not to give up on the Grand Inga project.

The New Guard
Nigeria, Gabon, DRC, Egypt

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

Nigeria Ajuri Ngelale, Tinubu's rising comms star

Gabon Anges-Kevin Nzigou, the key opposition lawyer ready to pounce

DRC Junior M'Buyi, the international finance expert back in Kinshasa

Egypt Serial investor Mohamed ‘Nagaty' Aboulnaga strikes again

Nigeria
Blocks 321 and 323: KNOC and Abuja gear up for battle before ICSID

Nigeria and Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) have each picked an arbitrator to represent them before ICSID in the long-running dispute over the OLP 321 and 323 oil fields.

East Africa, Ethiopia
Indian firm selected for first phase of digital ID project

The government has launched a vast programme to set up a digital identity system for citizens. Its printing and data storage contracts offer rich pickings.

Nigeria
Tinubu chooses multiple companies to end gas flaring

Often singled out for the amount of gas it flares, Nigeria is taking another big step forwards in the process it began eight years ago to put an end to this practice.

Palace Intrigues
Félix Tshisekedi, Andry Rajoelina, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Paul Biya

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

DRC Theft of 120-tonne shipment of copper raised in Tshisekedi meeting

Madagascar Rajoelina's former chief-of-staff's missed meeting

Algeria Tebboune's first UN General Assembly in NYC

Cameroon The military lobbies Biya

Kenya
Ruto caught between Washington and his own camp amid plans for tougher anti-gay law

Keen to alienate neither his political allies nor his foreign partners, the Kenyan president is saying very little about the controversial draft legislation.

Botswana
Gaborone bags World Bank green subsidies

President Mokgweetsi Masisi's administration is soon to receive $3.5m from the World Bank for green consultancy services.

Spotlight | Mauritania, Senegal
GTA domestic gas not due to arrive in Senegal or Mauritania before 2025

BP and Kosmos Energy plan to begin production in the Grand Tortue offshore LNG project early next year, but the pipelines and power stations needed to supply Mauritania's and Senegal's domestic markets are far from ready.