The state-owned company had revenue of around $1bn in 2022, even though its own production has been on the wane for years. Gécamines' directors are exploring new avenues to revive the mining of "strategic" minerals.
Until the end of August, two candidates with very different profiles were in the running to replace the outgoing Africa adviser at the Elysée Palace. French President Emmanuel Macron intends to make his decision in the next few days.
A host of diplomats and advisers are involved in preparations for the United Nations General Assembly later this month. Guinean president, Mamadi Doumbouya, is expected to attend and is counting on this event to push forward his political agenda.
The closure of Niger's airspace after the country’s coup has severely affected the revenues of Africa's air traffic control body ASECNA, whose boss Mohammed Moussa has slashed employee benefits in a bid to offset the losses.
The Kenyan administration wants to review some of its privatisation commitments without damaging its good relations with the Washington DC-based international lending institutions.
Ahead of elections in 2026, the Ugandan president is making strategic moves in Buganda kingdom, where he is distancing himself from his old allies as he finds new ones.
Extradited to the US in July, Mozambique's former finance minister is currently awaiting trial. His lawyer recently pleaded for the case to be dismissed, citing difficulties in gaining access to documents and potential witnesses for a speedy trial.
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's office had trouble getting the state machinery working on its candidature to join the BRICS and failed in its attempt, unlike the six other countries to have officially applied.
The French foreign ministry's top Africa diplomat Christophe Bigot is expected in Algiers over the next few days to discuss the situation in Niger.
