The former Mozambican minister of finances will soon be extradited to the United States, where he will be tried for corruption as part of a hidden debt case. Washington, which wanted to avoid having him extradited to Mozambique at all costs, called on several civil society organisations in his homeland to achieve its goal.
Though postponed, a gathering of 60 Rwandans from the worlds of politics, civil society and academia planned for early this month in an attempt to unify the opposition to Paul Kagame could further degrade relations between Kinshasa and Kigali.
In January, the French customs office at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport seized tens of thousands of euros from the president of the Cameroonian Football Federation, Samuel Eto'o.
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State firm Russian Helicopters, whose production lines have been disrupted by the war in Ukraine, has failed to provide the Mi-171 transport helicopters Benin needs to strengthen its air force in the fight against armed groups in the north.
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Defence In an internal note, Samuela Isopi raises doubts about Nigeria's presidential election that did not appear in the official report of the EU observer mission.
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As fighting continues between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan's capital city, some diplomatic missions are being forced to find alternative ways of resuming their activities. Port Sudan and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia are among the preferred options.
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Diplomacy Uganda is preparing to borrow $2.6bn from UK Export Finance to start laying track between Malaba and Kampala. Construction is due to start in September.
Nedbank is trying to recover the 50 million Namibian dollars it loaned to businessman Benjamin Hauwanga in 2020.
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Egypt is taking steps to ensure that a fund conceived to help states in the global south will take shape at the next United Nations climate change conference in Dubai at the end of the year.
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