The New Guard
Nigeria, Mozambique and Rwanda

The New Guard
Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Congo

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

Nigeria Oladosu brings ecofeminism to Paris summit

Ivory Coast Anguié, leading light of Abidjan cybersecurity

Senegal Thiam, a young activist fighting for African heritage

Congo The Obo brothers, Brazzaville's bureaucrat-farmers

Mozambique
Total and Maputo worlds apart on the future of Mozambique LNG

Total is walking on eggshells with the Mozambican authorities, wanting to both draw lessons from the close of its LNG facility build and stand firm on the terms of its return.

France, Rwanda
Finance is key to Franco-Rwandan rapprochement

Although relations between France and Rwanda remain dependent on the highly contentious issue of historical responsibility for the genocide, public investment bank Bpifrance is taking an active interest in the new Kigali International Financial Centre being set up by the government of Paul Kagame.

Spotlight | Mozambique
Filipe Nyusi's team standing in Armando Guebuza's shadow

The government the new president Filipe Nyusi inaugurated on 17 January is much more technocratic in nature than that of his predecessor Armando Guebuza. And yet, while Nyusi is personally not particularly active in private business (ION 1389), the majority [.