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[...] KENYA Energy Commodity traders FUEL DISTRIBUTOR RUBIS FORCED TO CHANGE TACK IN NAIROBI BURKINA FASO CANADA AID CUT RILES BURKINABE GOVERNMENT BUT INDIRECT FUNDING CONTINUES Some officials in Burkina Faso have expressed dismay at Ottawa's suspension of its direct budgetary support in the wake of the coup d'état. [...] EAST AFRICA WHY HASSAN SHEIKH MOHAMOUD MISSED IGAD SUMMIT GHANA Energy MINISTER PREMPEH GRANTS AKER ENERGY YET MORE TIME FOR PECAN FIELD DEVELOPMENT SOUTH AFRICA PRIVATE SECTOR TALKS STALL OVER PROSECUTION SERVICE FUNDING CONGO Defence FRENCH FIRM THEMIIS TO PROVIDE MARITIME SECURITY TRAINING IN BRAZZAVILLE ISSUE 11/07/2022 ISSUE IN FOCUS 1. 2. 3. Guinea's president, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, in Conakry on 17 September 2021. © John Wessels/AFP GUINEA RUSSIA Mining Diplomacy MOSCOW STRUGGLES TO STAY AFLOAT IN POST-CONDÉ CONAKRY Former Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Djibrill Yipènè Bassolé (photo from April 2012). © Issouf Sanogo/AFP WEST AFRICA Diplomacy FROM ABIDJAN TO DOHA: THE SECRET MISSIONS OF FORMER MINISTER DJIBRILL BASSOLÉ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) and his Minister of Mining and Energy, Gwede Mantashe. © Gianluigi Guercia/AFP SOUTH AFRICA Energy Politics ESKOM'S FATE CAUGHT UP IN THE CLASH BETWEEN RAMAPHOSA AND MANTASHE Guinea's president, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, in Conakry on 17 September 2021. © John Wessels/AFP GUINEA RUSSIA Mining Diplomacy MOSCOW STRUGGLES TO STAY AFLOAT IN POST-CONDÉ CONAKRY Former Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Djibrill Yipènè Bassolé (photo from April 2012). © Issouf Sanogo/AFP WEST AFRICA Diplomacy FROM ABIDJAN TO DOHA: THE SECRET MISSIONS OF FORMER MINISTER DJIBRILL BASSOLÉ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) and his Minister of Mining and Energy, Gwede Mantashe. © Gianluigi Guercia/AFP SOUTH AFRICA Energy Politics ESKOM'S FATE CAUGHT UP IN THE CLASH BETWEEN RAMAPHOSA AND MANTASHE All focus pieces THE CONTINENT BRAZIL Diplomacy 07/07/2022 BOLSONARO ENTRUSTS AFRICA FOREIGN MINISTRY DEPARTMENT TO NOVICE Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (L) with South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa in Osaka, Japan, 28 June 2019. © Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin/Reuters AFRICA Business 06/07/2022 THE NEW GUARD : IVORY COAST, CHAD, SOUTH AFRICA AND SOMALILAND Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics. This week: Ken Kakena (Ivory Coast), Mamadou Djimtebaye (Chad), Nobuhle Pamela Nkabane (South Africa), Mohamed Ahmed (Somaliland). [...] AFRICA Politics 05/07/2022 PALACE INTRIGUES: MACKY SALL, ASSIMI GOÏTA, GEORGE WEAH, EVARISTE NGAMANA AND MARINE LE PEN Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peak into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond. This week: Macky Sall telephones Assimi Goïta; George Weah is the special birthday guest of the ex-rebel Prince Johnson; Paris refuses the deputy speaker's medical evacuation to France; and Marine Le Pen has a tête-à-tête with France's former ambassador to Algeria, Xavier Driencourt. [...] All articles on Africa FREE ARTICLES 1. 2. 3. CONGO Finance Politics 01/07/2022 ROTHSCHILD LENDS BRAZZAVILLE HELPING HAND WITH ITS DEBTS The advisory bank Rothschild is supporting the Congolese government in the refinancing of its debts with a variety of traders, totalling over a billion dollars. Negotiations with the IMF are meanwhile being taken care of by the prime minister's advisers with the help of the Ivorian banker Ibrahim Magessa. [...] ETHIOPIA NIGERIA Diplomacy 29/06/2022 OBASANJO'S SOFTLY-SOFTLY APPROACH TO TIGRAY MEDIATION CAUSES FRUSTRATION ALL ROUND Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. © Christian Thompson/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP The African Union-elected mediator of the Ethiopian crisis, Olusegun Obasanjo, is keeping very quiet about his methods. But his international goals could clash with the 2023 Nigerian presidential election. [...] KENYA Defence Business 23/06/2022 CERBAIR BAGS SECURITY CONTRACT WITH KENYAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE Anti-drone specialist Cerbair has won a contract to protect a dozen Kenyan National Intelligence Service (NIS) sites. The deal was clinched thanks to telecoms consultant Laurent Catinot. [...] CONGO Finance Politics 01/07/2022 ROTHSCHILD LENDS BRAZZAVILLE HELPING HAND WITH ITS DEBTS The advisory bank Rothschild is supporting the Congolese government in the refinancing of its debts with a variety of traders, totalling over a billion dollars. Negotiations with the IMF are meanwhile being taken care of by the prime minister's advisers with the help of the Ivorian banker Ibrahim Magessa. [...] ETHIOPIA NIGERIA Diplomacy 29/06/2022 OBASANJO'S SOFTLY-SOFTLY APPROACH TO TIGRAY MEDIATION CAUSES FRUSTRATION ALL ROUND Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. © Christian Thompson/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP The African Union-elected mediator of the Ethiopian crisis, Olusegun Obasanjo, is keeping very quiet about his methods. But his international goals could clash with the 2023 Nigerian presidential election. [...] KENYA Defence Business 23/06/2022 CERBAIR BAGS SECURITY CONTRACT WITH KENYAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE Anti-drone specialist Cerbair has won a contract to protect a dozen Kenyan National Intelligence Service (NIS) sites. The deal was clinched thanks to telecoms consultant Laurent Catinot. [...] Access the free section EASTERN AFRICA AND THE HORN UGANDA Energy Commodity traders 11/07/2022 MUSEVENI EMBARKS ON MULTIPLE MISSIONS TO TACKLE INFLATION Faced with growing popular discontent, the Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni has made a number of declarations in an attempt to calm the social climate. His first target is fuel prices. [...] ETHIOPIA Business 11/07/2022 TIGRAYAN BUSINESSES CONDITIONALLY REOPEN IN ADDIS Since February, the federal government and several Tigrayan business people have been negotiating for a resumption of trade. The hotel and restaurant sector is particularly affected in the capital. [...] News In Brief KENYA 06/07/2022 HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM HAS ANOTHER CRACK AT KENYAN MARKET ETHIOPIA 30/06/2022 TPLF SUFFERS SIGNIFICANT DEFECTION AMONG ITS AFAR ALLIES EGYPT |ETHIOPIA 20/06/2022 RESPONSIBILITY FOR GERD BOUNCED BACK TO SAMEH SHOUKRY SOUTH SUDAN Politics Diplomacy 08/07/2022 IGAD POWERLESS IN FACE OF JUBA'S POLITICAL DEADLOCK A lack of resources is hampering the mechanisms the regional bloc put in place to monitor South Sudan's transition. [...] UGANDA Energy 08/07/2022 MUSEVENI'S TEAM FORCED TO CURB DOWNSTREAM GOALS The government is struggling to garner enough enthusiasm from private sector partners to finance its ambitious refinery and storage projects. [...] Spotlight RWANDA Business Diplomacy 07/07/2022 MACRON-KAGAME RAPPROCHEMENT BOOSTS FRENCH BUSINESS IN KIGALI Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in December 2021 in Paris. © Christophe Petit Tesson/EFE/EPA/MaxPPP All Eastern Africa and the Horn articles SOUTHERN AFRICA AND ISLANDS ZIMBABWE Mining 11/07/2022 STATE-OWNED KUVIMBA MINING REGAINS CONTROL OF A PARCEL OF THE FREDA REBECCA GOLDMINE Freda Rebecca's gold mine, Zimbabwe. © Greenshoots Communications/Alamy banque d'images MADAGASCAR Business 08/07/2022 OLD REAL ESTATE ROW POISONS RELATIONS BETWEEN POWERFUL HIRIDJEE AND RAZAALI CLANS First cousins Hassanein Hiridjee, of the Axian group, and Goulam and Irchad Razaali, of EDL, have feuded for decades over a plot of land in Antananarivo. Just as the Razaali siblings were about to regain possession of the land, a top prosecutor curiously did an about-face. [...] News In Brief BOTSWANA 11/07/2022 DE BEERS-GABORONE DEAL STILL STUCK ON STATE'S SHARE SOUTH AFRICA 08/07/2022 RUSSIAN ELITE'S JET MAKES LOW-KEY STOPOVER IN SOUTH AFRICA ANGOLA 05/07/2022 SONANGOL COUNTS ON DIAMOND FIRMS TO BOOST REVENUE ZAMBIA Mining 07/07/2022 MINING APPEALS TRIBUNAL TAKES SHAPE Zambia has at last launched its new appeals tribunal dedicated to settling disputes in the strategic mining sector. It is manned by several big names from the legal and mining worlds. [...] Spotlight SOUTH AFRICA Politics 06/07/2022 FARMGATE: RAMAPHOSA PLAYS FOR TIME IN ETHICS TESTIMONY OVER PHALA PHALA HEIST SCANDAL South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. © Reuters Spotlight SOUTH AFRICA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Diplomacy 05/07/2022 PRETORIA DRAGS HEELS OVER GUPTA BROTHERS EXTRADITION All Southern Africa and islands articles WEST AFRICA NIGERIA Energy 11/07/2022 WITH ITS NOPL PIPELINE STILL SHUT DOWN, TOTALENERGIES LOOKS FOR ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS The French major TotalEnergies stopped delivering gas to the Alaoji thermal power station several months ago, because its pipeline was vandalised. Yet Greenville LNG has proposed an alternative: transport by truck. [...] GUINEA Infrastructures Mining 11/07/2022 RAILWAY FORCES UMS TO READJUST ITS BAUXITE OPERATIONS The railway of the Société Minière de Boké. © Indigo Publications - 2022 News In Brief NIGERIA 08/07/2022 OPEC SECRETARY GENERAL BARKINDO'S DEATH DEPRIVES BUHARI OF A CRUCIAL ALLY SENEGAL 07/07/2022 AMBASSADOR PHILIPPE LALLIOT TO STAY ON IN DAKAR MALI 06/07/2022 SPAIN'S SWIFTAIR STARTS FLYING FOR MINUSMA Bola Tinubu, a presidential candidate in the February 2023 election, and President Muhammadu Buhari. © Reuters Inner circles NIGERIA Energy Politics 08/07/2022 BUHARI'S NNPC BOARD APPOINTEES A BOON FOR TINUBU'S PRESIDENTIAL BID TOGO TURKEY Defence 08/07/2022 LOMÉ'S TURN TO SUCCUMB TO CHARMS OF TURKISH TB2 COMBAT DRONES After success in Niger, Turkey's "drone diplomacy" is continuing to work its magic in West Africa: a few weeks ago, the Togolese army took delivery of a consignment of Bayraktar TB2 combat drones to protect its northern border against incursions by armed groups from Burkina Faso. [...] GUINEA Mining 08/07/2022 INDIAN FIRMS MAKE BAUXITE HEADWAY The Indian firm Ashapura is ready to mine one of its bauxite deposits in Guinea, at a time when several of its compatriots are entering the country to begin exploration of the same ore, which is in great demand by Indian industrialists. [...] All West Africa articles CENTRAL AFRICA CAMEROON Politics 11/07/2022 AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN FERDINAND NGOH NGOH AND FRANCK BIYA MAY BE IN THE WORKS Cameroonian President Paul Biya. © Kepseu/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP FRANCE GABON Business 11/07/2022 TIME FOR TOMI TO PAY FRENCH TAXES, RULES COUNCIL OF STATE After years of court battles over tax on commissions, the French Council of State ruled Michel Tomi had to pay some taxes in France. [...] News In Brief AFRICA |FRANCE 11/07/2022 FRANCOPHONIE SECRETARY OF STATE ZACHAROPOULOU APPOINTS CHIEF OF STAFF CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 08/07/2022 FRANCE QUITS MINUSCA COMMAND IN FURTHER SIGN OF MILITARY DISENGAGEMENT CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC |FRANCE 07/07/2022 LAWYERS PREPARE FOR LONG BATTLE IN CASTEL AFFAIR Spotlight DRC Defence Politics Diplomacy 08/07/2022 CHAOTIC CONGOLESE ARMY AND UNDERPOWERED MONUSCO STRUGGLE AGAINST M23 The current military governor of North Kivu, General Constant Ndima Kongba. © Alexis Huguet/AFP GABON Business 08/07/2022 SWISS INQUIRY INTO ALLEGED SANTULLO BACKHANDERS TAKES ON INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION After four years of Swiss investigations into the payments allegedly made by construction firm Sericom to senior Gabonese officials, the Office of the Attorney General is seeking assistance from other national jurisdictions. For its part, the Santullo family is still trying to unfreeze its accounts, but so far in vain. [...] DRC Defence 07/07/2022 TURKISH PARAMILITARY FIRM SADAT GOES ON CHARM OFFENSIVE IN KINSHASA The private company is taking an interest in the DR Congo's security market, lured by opportunities to train its armed forces and police and by the country's need for military equipment. [...] All Central Africa articles NORTH AFRICA Breaking news ALGERIA FRANCE Diplomacy 12/07/2022 ALGERIA APPOINTS NEW AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE Breaking news published 12/7/22 at 12:25. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has appointed an experienced diplomat to head the Algerian embassy in France. [...] ALGERIA Energy 11/07/2022 OXY KEEN TO MOVE ON FROM POST-ANADARKO APATHY Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub. © Rod Lamkey/CNP/Abacapress.com News In Brief NORTH AFRICA 06/07/2022 MOSCOW PLANS TO HOLD ITS RUSSIAN-ARAB SUMMIT IN CAIRO INSTEAD OF MARRAKECH TUNISIA 01/07/2022 TRANSPORT MINISTRY HITS THE BUFFERS IN HUNT FOR RAILWAY FUNDS TUNISIA 29/06/2022 GERMAN PRESIDENT TRIES TO RE-ESTABLISH CONTACT BETWEEN KAIS SAIED AND G7 COUNTRIES MOROCCO Infrastructures 11/07/2022 JEAN-MARIE MESSIER ENGINEERING VEOLIA-TAQA PARTNERSHIP FOR CASABLANCA DESALINATION PLANT French businessman Jean-Marie Messier. © Francois Lafite/Wostok Press/MaxPPP MOROCCO Energy 08/07/2022 TARIK HAMANE LEAVES MASEN TO LEAD TOTALENERGIES' HYDROGEN PLANS The head of development at the Moroccan sustainable energy agency, where he was effectively the second in command, has joined Total Eren, the renewable energies arm of French major TotalEnergies. In his new role he will develop green hydrogen production. [...] NORTH AFRICA Energy Diplomacy 08/07/2022 IN ALGIERS, KAIS SAIED GETS BORDERS REOPENED, BUT NO NEW GAS Kais Saied and Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune attend the celebration the anniversary of Algeria's independence on 5 July, 2022. © Algerian Presidency/Anadolu Agency via AFP All North Africa articles Scroll over the map to access the latest articles by country LIBERIA Abidjan and Accra allied against multinationals in new cocoa war New ECOWAS commissioners unveiled following intense lobbying Ouagadougou ponders G5 Sahel membership after Mali's exit From Abidjan to Doha: the secret missions of former minister Djibrill Bassolé ECOWAS leaders at loggerheads over successor to Akufo-Addo George Weah takes on Mittal over the future of the country's iron mines, railways EU wants four African navies to fight piracy together Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon undertook discreet African tour Tycoon Bonkoungou launches new airline in Togo Doumbouya confident of facing down ECOWAS See more articles LIBERIA ON TWITTER See all tweets from Africa Intelligence 1. 2. 3. 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[...] ETHIOPIA Commodity traders 07/07/2022 CASH-STRAPPED ADDIS FACES FERTILISER SHORTAGE The Ethiopian government stockpiled fertiliser before the crisis and price hike. At a time when foreign exchange reserves are at their lowest, this hoard could help finance farming subsidies. [...] GHANA Energy 06/07/2022 AKER ENERGY, HOBBLED BY RUSSIAN PARTNER LUKOIL, POSTPONES PECAN DEVELOPMENT The Norwegian firm has been stalling for two years on its DWT/CTP licence in Ghana. It has once again postponed submitting plans for the offshore Pecan field, citing the presence among its partners of the Russian company Lukoil, whose founder is under Western sanctions. [...] KENYA Commodity traders Politics 05/07/2022 KENYATTA FAILS TO DELIVER KEY COFFEE SECTOR REFORM Kenya's coffee sector, once the flagship of national agriculture, is in trouble. The president's plans to reform it have been undermined by tension between the agriculture ministry, the senate and the national assembly, and will probably not happen before he leaves office. [...] Employees process coffee at the Central Kenya Coffee Mill near Nyeri, Kenya. © Baz Ratner/Reuters UGANDA Energy 05/07/2022 TOTALENERGIES AND CNOOC FINALLY SEE FUNDS FLOWING FOR EAST AFRICA PIPELINE European investors have never warmed to the Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline project, but South African Standard Bank is signing on. [...] See more articles Search Continue without accepting → CHOOSE HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS MANAGED Africa Intelligence uses cookies to provide reliable and secure features, measure and analyse website traffic and provide support to the website users. Apart from those essential for the proper operation of the website, you can choose which cookies you accept to have stored on your device. 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