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Spotlight | DRC
Foreign private military contractors flood into North Kivu

Soldiers of the Congolese Republican Guard walk on the tarmac of the airport in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on 12th November 2022. © Alexis Huguet/AFP

Africa Intelligence lifts the veil on the private security companies currently operating in the eastern DRC city of Goma. There are dozens of former Soviet soldiers present, as well as a French businessman and a Romanian veteran of the French Foreign Legion.

Subscribers only Defence

Central Africa

Chad
N'Djamena bids for leadership of air traffic control agency ASECNA

Chad's foreign affairs ministry has for several weeks been preparing its candidacy for the head of ASECNA (Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar).

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Diplomacy

West Africa

Guinea
Bpifrance set to finalise Eiffage's €200m hospital contract

The state-owned French investment bank Bpifrance is working on the final details of a €198m contract that construction firm Eiffage won last month to build regional university hospitals in four towns in Guinea.

Subscribers only Business

West Africa
MTN to downsize in Africa in 2023

Telecomms giant MTN has mandated the South African bank Absa for the sale of some of its smaller operations in Africa. The financial services company has already started evaluating several of these assets.

Subscribers only Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan, United States
Robert B. Crowe, Sudan's lobbyist in Washington

An Anglo-Sudanese company has hired Crowe to promote its interests with the US administration and Congress. The move comes shortly after the signing of a framework agreement between Sudan's military junta and part of the civilian opposition.

Subscribers only Business

Africa, Comoros islands, Kenya
Comoros set to chair African Union as Nairobi makes way

Comoros President Azali Assoumani arrives for the opening ceremony at the Paris Peace Forum at The Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris on 11th November 2021. © Raphael Lafargue/Abacapress

There should not be no further obstacle to Comoros presiding over the pan-African organisation as of next month.

Free access Diplomacy

Ethiopia
Paris and Berlin seek to act in unison in the Horn

The French and German foreign ministers are due in Addis in a week's time for talks with the Ethiopian government. Paris and Berlin are doing their best to adopt a common diplomatic stance in the region.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Base Resources presses Rajoelina for green light to mine Toliara Sands

The Australian firm's boss Tim Carstens is hopeful that he will soon be allowed to start mining the Toliara Sands deposit in Ranobe, where operations have been suspended for over three years.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Algeria
Bettahar Boudjellal, the discreet guardian of Qatar's secrets

Based in Doha for over a decade, the Franco-Algerian lawyer may turn out to be an unexpected link in the chain between the PSG spying affair and the 'Qatargate' affair at the European parliament. The figure at the centre of the Paris football club inquiry, the lobbyist Tayeb Benabderrahmane, recently launched legal action against him in Algeria, while Belgian investigators want to question him about his links to the MEP scandal.

Subscribers only Politics

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