Former finance minister Manuel Chang, jailed in South Africa in 2018 for his role in Mozambique's secret loans scandal, is the subject of a fierce tug of war within the South African government. Securocrats want him extradited to Maputo, while the justice minister wants to send him to the US.
President Idriss Déby's sudden death on 20 April has sent shockwaves throughout Chad and further afield, prompting France to raise its operation Bharkane to maximum alert. Officially, the leader was killed in combat fighting the Fact rebels, but many questions remain on the circumstances leading to his death.
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Eurasian Resources has set itself an ambitious goal - it wants to extract up to 20m tonnes of bauxite per year from the Telimele site in Guinea - but still needs the government's green light on its mining convention.
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Mining The smuggling of oil from Nigeria and undeclared cargos from CNCPC's refinery have reached such levels that the authorities have been forced to take action.
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At the request of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, US. Special Envoy to Sudan Donald Booth, who manages day-to-day African affairs at the State Department, is set to travel to Sudan to offer his government's guarantorship of the peace process.
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Diplomacy Kampala is reluctant to hand Kinshasa the reins of the Regional Oversignt Mechanism set up to help them fight the many armed groups active in eastern DRC.
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Diplomacy Gagan Gupta travelled to Rwanda earlier in April with electric rickshaw company Mauto Electric CEO Mansoor Ali Khan.
Years after leaving the Botswanan mining sector, the businessman and rally driving afficionado has registered two companies under his own name. A prelude to new investments?
Maputo is in a hurry to buy armoured vehicles to help its beleaguered army fend off insurgents wreaking havoc in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado. South African suppliers are keen to oblige.
On April 16 President Masisi made Elias Magosi, permanent secretary in the presidence since 2019, an acting ambassador-at-large.
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Casa Transports wants to transform its transportation management system into a vast high-tech video surveillance system to be used by the police. China's Huawei and Hikvision are interested in the contract, as is AB Protection, whose CEO Mounir Belmahi has many ties within the Makhzen.
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Business After cancelling a trip planned for March because of Covid-19, Jean Castex will head to the Tunisian capital next month for talks about security and economics with his counterpart Hichem Mechichi.
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Diplomacy Carlyle has tried unsuccessfully for years to convince US courts that it was robbed by Morrocan refinery operator Samir and should therefore be compensated by its insurance. But an appeals court has just reversed the ruling against it, reviving the hopes of the beleaguered US fund.
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Energy Moroccan financier Yariv Elbaz's Swiss grain trading firm supplies leading miller Forafric with wheat from Ukraine and Russia.
