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A mining contract worth more than $1bn may be at the heart of rising tensions between Bamako and Abidjan.

In Focus | Ivory Coast, Mali
Billion-dollar deal paranoia unnerves shaky Abidjan-Bamako relations

One of the factors behind the sharp decline in Ivorian-Malian relations is a mining contract worth over $1bn signed in October 2021 between a German group and a Malian firm. Africa Intelligence has followed the politically charged financial trail that leads from Berlin to Rabat, and Dubai to Bamako, under which lurks the shadow of Russian interests and those of the Ivorian opposition leader Guillaume Soro.

Subscribers only Mining, Diplomacy

Central Africa

Technicians at an oil pipeline in Badila, Chad, 9 June 2013.

Cameroon
Why Exxon and Petronas sought arbitration with Yaoundé over Chad-Cameroon pipeline

ExxonMobil and Petronas are caught up in a painful withdrawal from Chad, and are now also facing similar difficulties in neighbouring Cameroon.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy

West Africa
Doha prepares to launch major mediation centre

Qatari diplomacy is in the final stages of setting up a major mediation centre, to be called the Center for International Conflict Resolution.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Sahel
French Foreign Office set to name new Sahel Special Envoy

A replacement for current Special Envoy for the Sahel Frédéric Bontems is due to be named. Bontems will become French Ambassador to South Africa.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

India
Narendra Modi's team to look into African Union joining G20

The decision on whether to initiate the process to admit the African Union to the G20 will largely fall to the Indian PM Narendra Modi, who will be overseeing the next summit of the organisation in India in 2023.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Kenyatta financiers flock to Ruto administration

Financiers working for former president Uhuru Kenyatta and his pick of presidential candidate Raila Odinga have since turned to William Ruto in the hopes of protecting their business empires and are willing to pour cash into the new head of state's key projects.

Subscribers only Politics

The shipping port of Port Sudan, 9 October 2021.

Sudan
Shipping giants under fire as Khartoum strives to fix port chaos

Port Sudan, the beating heart of Sudan's economy, faces the twin complications of lax regulation and the spill-over effects of last year's protest blockade. The government has set up two committees in an effort to resolve the chaos.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
From Madagascar to Cabo Delgado, the nine lives of Sofema's CN-235 plane

A CN-235 troop transport aircraft sold in 2019 by Sofema to Madagascar has just been delivered in new livery to Mozambique by Paramount. It will be deployed in the fight against Islamist insurgents in Cabo Delgado.

Subscribers only Defence

Mozambique
ExxonMobil and ENI prepare the ground for the second Coral FLNG

While safety issues are far from being resolved in the Cabo Delgado province, the two majors operating in Block 4 are working hard to develop offshore solutions.

Subscribers only Energy

Madagascar
Egypt's EGAAD consortium to build new motorway and invest in local medicine production

EGAAD director general Reda Boulos is carrying out new projects in Madagascar. His group is to take part in the construction of a new motorway between Antananarivo and the port of Toamasina, and negotiating to set up a PPP to invest in the Pharmalagasy pharmaceuticals plant.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

North Africa

Tunisian PM Najla Bouden at the MEDEF Summer Conference La REF 2022, Paris, 30 August 2022.

Tunisia
PM Najla Bouden skating on thin ice after smiling at Israeli president

Relations between Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed and his prime minister are at a low ebb. Najla Bouden's smiles for the Israeli president at the COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh appear to have made her imminent departure all the more likely.

Subscribers only Politics

Greece, Libya
Behind the latest clash between Tripoli and Athens

The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs' recent visit to Libya set off a new crisis between Athens and Tripoli, which can be traced back to Greece's rivalry with Turkey.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Libya
Brussels wants to boost cross-border cooperation between Tripoli and Sahel states

A conference on cross-border cooperation between Libya and Sahel states against organised crime and trafficking will be held in Tunis on 22 and 23 November.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

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