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Central Africa
West Africa
Eastern Africa and the Horn
Southern Africa and islands
North Africa

The Congolese president's personal representative for international affairs, Françoise Joly.

Spotlight | Congo
Françoise Joly, Sassou's enigmatic adviser, champions Dubai trader Masono

Obtaining a shipment of Congolese crude is usually mission impossible for non-French-speaking traders, but the Emirati firm Masono managed to acquire its first one in September and is in line to be awarded more. This feat is due to the intervention of Françoise Joly, the Congolese president's international affairs representative.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders

Central Africa

Alexandre Vilgrain, former CEO of SOMDIAA.

Cameroon
With Vilgrain ousted, Castel takes a firmer hold of SOMDIAA

Alexandre Vilgrain, CEO of Cameroon's flour market leader SOMDIAA, has been forced to resign, following the publication of a report by an American NGO accusing his company of financing an armed group in the Central African Republic.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

West Africa

Mauritania
TotalEnergies hitches its wagon to Chariot's vast hydrogen project

The British junior's Projet Nour is set to generate 10 GW of wind and solar power in the Nouadhibou region to produce hydrogen via electrolysis, a scheme dear to the heart of Mauritania's energy minister.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Ivory Coast
Border protection: Israel's Avnon Group chases the military high command hard

With TAR already set to supply 10 helicopters to the Ivorian army, its sister company, iSTAR, is making a bid for a contract to supply surveillance drones. Both subsidiaries of Israel's Avnon Group, they aim to play a role in the country's efforts to protect its borders.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Ivory Coast
Ouattara tinkers with BICICI takeover task force

The president has made several adjustments to the pool of public entities in charge of preparing the takeover bid for the Ivorian subsidiary of BNP Paribas, the Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie de Côte d'Ivoire.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Ivory Coast
Arrests linked to cocaine trafficking investigation send Freemasons into turmoil

The arrest and the indictment of several influential members of Ivory Coast's main masonic lodge, the Grande Loge de Côte d'Ivoire, last month as part of an investigation into a cocaine seizure in April in Abidjan has put Grand Master Sylvere Koyo in a tight spot.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

The new Somali president, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud.

Egypt, Somalia
Farmajo-foe Egypt sees hope in Hassan Sheikh's election

After years of choppy relations with former Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known as "Farmajo", Cairo is counting on the accession of newly elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to bring about plainer sailing.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Tanzania
Kemexon taking Tanzanian coal to the world

A Belgian-owned company registered in Hong Kong that mainly trades in petroleum, energy and mineral products, Kemexon, is in charge of exporting coal from Ruvuma Coal, southwest Tanzania, to Europe and Asia.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders

Ethiopia
New-look Jawar Mohammed steps back into the limelight in the diaspora

Released from prison in January, Oromo activist Jawar Mohammed finally broke his silence in May by giving two interviews to Amharic- and Oromo-speaking audiences in Ethiopia and its diaspora.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana
Constell Group seeks to expand diamond operations in Botswana

The Indian group, which advises Botswana's diamond industry, has joined the ranks of other major diamantaires that have recently flocked to grow their footprint in the country.

Subscribers only Mining

Mozambique
TotalEnergies brings back first subcontractors to Cabo Delgado

TotalEnergies has still not ended the force majeure it decreed more than a year ago that shut down its Mozambique LNG mega-project after insurgent attacks. But it is preparing to reopen the Afungi site where the two LNG liquefaction trains will be built.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Morocco
OCP fails to get visas to attend the Vivatech trade fair in Paris

The giant Moroccan phosphates group has become the latest victim in the visa war raging between Paris and Rabat. Relations between the two countries are currently at a low ebb.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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