The legal action taken against the first lady's brother in Dubai has torn apart President Teodoro Obiang Nguema's family but also further weakened the opposition to the Equatorial Guinean regime. This is how it all happened.
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A behind-the-scenes adviser to the director of Douala port, the Cameroonian businesswoman is the driving force behind the independent authority set up to take over from Bolloré.
The Guinean government, pushing pooling in the mining sector to the extreme, is seeking to impose Monaco Resources as the go-to firm for marketing bauxite produced by firms less experienced in trading. The move comes as mining companies are experimenting with sharing capacity or infrastructure, an often fraught process.
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Mining Matrix Energy's tight connections to the powers that be in Nigeria has allowed it to play a prominent role in the country's oil trading.
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Energy The Liberian ship registry and the consulting company which it hired to promote it have jointly begun a discovery process in a US court in an attempt to prove that the other party is at fault.
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Business After thrashing out the deal for more than two years, French hotel giant Accor has transferred its African hotels to the Franco-Qatari Kasada investment fund. Financial entities based in Luxembourg, Mauritian and Qatar are involved.
As the country gears up for legislative elections on March 6, there have been intense negotiations about who will be in the next government. The president has already pencilled in a few names.
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No date has yet been fixed for the visit to Paris planned by Djiboutian president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh for the end of January. According to our information, the French presidency is responsible for this delay.
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Diplomacy CTG, which specialises in hiring project managers for humanitarian agencies, is increasing its presence in Somalia's security sector.
Although it has put its activities on hold in recent months, the Dyck Advisory Group retains its contract to mentor the police in the face of the Cabo Delgado uprising.
One of the ideas the Zambian state mining company ZCCM-Investments Holdings (ZCCM-IH) has in mind to increase its revenue by 2026 is to develop a mining supply chain.
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Libyan state-owned airline EACS is set to retake possession of the Airbus A340 which served as Muammar Gaddafi's presidential jet. The aircraft's return is being held up, however, by the unwillingness of the French embassy in Libya to issue visas for the company's technicians.
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Business The French subsidiary of the Japanese marine electronics giant has clinched a contract to kit out Tunisian coast guard vessels with surveillance systems that will strengthen the fight against irregular migration.
