AFRICA : Guinea, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana - 27/07/2022

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CAMEROON GHANA IVORY COAST NIGERIA Commodity traders 21/10/2022

Cameroon and Nigeria's talks with cocoa cartel bear fruit

Details have emerged about Yaoundé et Abuja's talks in Abidjan to join the Ivory Coast-Ghana Cocoa Initiative, set up to defend the interests of the world's two largest cocoa producers.

SOUTH AFRICA Politics 04/10/2022

Frontrunner Cyril Ramaphosa draws up his final "top six" shortlist for ANC congress

The South African leader and president of the African National Congress, who looks likely to be re-elected at the ANC's elective conference in December, has already picked his favoured candidates for the party's top jobs.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responds to questions in parliament surrounding cash allegedly kept on his private farm, in Cape Town, South Africa, September 29, 2022.

Alex Pierre-Arnaud Assanvo, secretary-general of the Ivory Coast Ghana Cocoa Initiative. © Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters

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GHANA IVORY COAST Commodity traders 29/07/2022

New cocoa initiative still far cry from Ouattara and Akufo-Addo's chocolate heaven

The Ivory Coast-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (ICCIG), based in Accra since September 2021 and headed by the experienced Ivorian Alex Assanvo, is struggling to bring multinationals on board. It is also trying to persuade the two regulatory bodies to radically shift their priorities.

GUINEA Mining 13/07/2022

Ismael Diakité spearheads negotiations for Winning Consortium Simandou Free

The former Rio Tinto exec and current chairman of the Chamber of Mines, who is also the deputy managing director of the Chinese-Singaporean-Guinean consortium, has been leading the negotiations on the Simandou iron ore project.

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KENYA - Solomon Kuria, the link between Kenyatta and Odinga.
SOUTH AFRICA - Nonceba Mhlauli, President Ramaphosa's youth champion
CONGO - Steven Moussala, Prime Minister Anatole Makosso's Franco-Congolese sherpa
GUINEA - Mohamed Lamine Solano, Conakry's voice in Washington.
MOROCCO - Omar Chraibi, the man behind Voltalia's solar victory.

SOUTH AFRICA Politics 25/03/2022

ANC pillars are wobblier than ever ahead of conference, giving Ramaphosa room to scheme

The ruling party's deeply dysfunctional Youth League and Women's League have rarely been in poorer health, with the military veterans associations also in disarray. As a candidate for re-election as party president in December, Cyril Ramaphosa sees in their predicaments a chance to undermine his rivals.

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SOUTH AFRICA Politics 11/03/2022

ANC Women's League seeks direction ahead of December elective conference

The ANC Women's League, an entity born from the ashes of the Bantu Women's League in 1948, is struggling to make its voice heard on the national scene but still wants to hold sway when the party decides on its top six in December this year.

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Cameroon and Nigeria's talks with cocoa cartel bear fruit

Frontrunner Cyril Ramaphosa draws up his final "top six" shortlist for ANC congress

New cocoa initiative still far cry from Ouattara and Akufo-Addo's chocolate heaven

Ismael Diakité spearheads negotiations for Winning Consortium Simandou Free

KENYA - Solomon Kuria, the link between Kenyatta and Odinga.

SOUTH AFRICA - Nonceba Mhlauli, President Ramaphosa's youth champion

CONGO - Steven Moussala, Prime Minister Anatole Makosso's Franco-Congolese sherpa

GUINEA - Mohamed Lamine Solano, Conakry's voice in Washington.

MOROCCO - Omar Chraibi, the man behind Voltalia's solar victory.

ANC pillars are wobblier than ever ahead of conference, giving Ramaphosa room to scheme

ANC Women's League seeks direction ahead of December elective conference

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Cameroon and Nigeria's talks with cocoa cartel bear fruit

Frontrunner Cyril Ramaphosa draws up his final "top six" shortlist for ANC congress

New cocoa initiative still far cry from Ouattara and Akufo-Addo's chocolate heaven

Ismael Diakité spearheads negotiations for Winning Consortium Simandou Free

KENYA - Solomon Kuria, the link between Kenyatta and Odinga.

SOUTH AFRICA - Nonceba Mhlauli, President Ramaphosa's youth champion

CONGO - Steven Moussala, Prime Minister Anatole Makosso's Franco-Congolese sherpa

GUINEA - Mohamed Lamine Solano, Conakry's voice in Washington.

MOROCCO - Omar Chraibi, the man behind Voltalia's solar victory.

ANC pillars are wobblier than ever ahead of conference, giving Ramaphosa room to scheme

ANC Women's League seeks direction ahead of December elective conference

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