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Israeli companies will provide equipment to strengthen security at MINUSMA bases (above in Kidal).

In Focus | Israel, Mali
Africa gives Israeli firms IAI, Elbit and Mer a back door into the worldwide UN base security market

By dint of hard lobbying, Israel's IAI, Elbit and Mer groups have succeeded in landing the contract for the provision of protection at MINUSMA camps in Mali. They are now looking to repeat the feat at the 40 or so UN peacekeeping bases throughout the world, some of them in the Middle East.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Central Africa

Congo
Total boss humours lord of the manor Sassou but makes his intentions clear

Patrick Pouyanné played along as Congo's president showed off his domains, but behind the Total CEO's remarkable patience lay a determination to extract his pound of flesh.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Unloading an iron cargo in the port of Forecariah, Guinea.

Guinea
India's Odhav group hopes to strike a new bonanza on the edges of Simandou

Odhav Multi Industries, which has been looking to get into Guinea's iron ore mining business for several months, has applied for permits adjacent to Simandou, one of the biggest unexploited iron ore deposits in the world

Subscribers only Mining

Nigeria
OML 133: appeal hearing for ExxonMobil and Shell in $2.5bn NNPC suit not due before 2021

The dispute between state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) and ExxonMobil and Shell over the distribution of income from OML 133 is not due to be heard before early next year by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Subscribers only Energy

Mauritania, Senegal
China's Poly Changda clinches Rosso bridge contract

After a tender involving 17 international companies, China's Poly Changda Engineering won the contract to build a bridge linking Senegal to Mauritania.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

An Ethiopean Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.

Ethiopia
State keeps tight lid on Ethiopian's passenger branch but is ready to privatise logistics

Ethiopian Airlines' passenger and freight lines, the real cash-earners of the airliner, will remain in the state's hands but its logistics and maintenance branches could be opened up to private investors.

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Africa, European Union
ACP group works on last details to step out of the Cotonou accords

Negotiations over the free trade deal that is supposed to replace the Cotonou accords are drawing to a close and the EU is waiting for ACP states to make one last amendment.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Zimbabwe
Michael Luzich: from the Las Vegas strip to the gold mines of Zimbabwe

Michael Luzich, known for doing business in casinos and race cars, has just signed an agreement to purchase the Penhalonga gold project in Zimbabwe from Prospect Resources.

Subscribers only Mining

Sindika Dokolo and his wife Isabel dos Santos.

Angola
Tense negotiations over Sindika Dokolo memorial

After the memorial event for late Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo held on 5 November by his widow Isabel dos Santos in Dubai, where the couple lived and where Dokolo died on 29 October, the family of former president José Eduardo dos Santos planned to hold three simultaneous masses.

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

Algeria
French firm CAN runs into an ambush on its Kherrata Gorge roadwork contract

The firm's contract for consolidation of the mountain road to Kherrata has been reallocated for the third time in five years, causing further delays on this important project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Tunisia
Kaïs Saïed transfers Covid medical purchases to military

Defense Minister Brahim Bertégi, one of the few members of the government who is close to the president, has been put in charge of emergency drug and medical equipment procurement.

Subscribers only Politics

The Fact-Finding Mission in Libya (FFML) should in particular investigate the mass graves discovered in Tarhouna.

Libya
UN prepares for war crimes investigation

Established in June and led by Morocco's Mohamed Aujjar, the UN's international Fact-Finding Mission to Libya will investigate war crimes committed since 2016, not least those allegedly committed by Khalifa Haftar's forces.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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