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Spotlight | Africa
Corsair boss' African odyssey to try to get airline back on track

Corsair airline CEO Pascal de Izaguirre.
Corsair airline CEO Pascal de Izaguirre. © Vincent Isore/IP3 Press/MaxPPP
Pascal de Izaguirre sought to forge personal relationships with a handful of African heads of state last year to try to get his airline out of its financial difficulties. He relied in particular on the help of French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy. His endeavours met with mixed results. [...]
Published on 30.01.2024 at 04:40 GMT Reading time 4 minutes Pierre-Elie de Rohan Chabot, Antoine Rolland
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Spotlight | Congo
Brazzaville suffers major setback in Commisimpex arbitration in Paris

An arbitration court in Paris has rejected Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso's latest appeal to overturn a tribunal ruling ordering Congo to pay over $1.5bn to Mohsen Hojeij's company, Commisimpex. It's a legal setback that exposes the methods of the lawyers and private investigators hired by Brazzaville to try to establish a corruption link between the Lebanese businessman and one of the arbitrators.

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Denis Sassou Nguesso at Brazzaville airport in March 2023.

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