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Tunisia's President Kais Saied and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas inaugurating the new Palestinian embassy headquarters in Tunis on December 8, 2021.

In Focus | Africa, Palestine
Palestine quietly rebuilds African networks to counter overwhelming Israeli activism

From its heyday in the 1980s, Palestine's diplomatic presence in Africa - a 24-embassy strong network - has lost its lustre while Israel continues to gain ground. Wanting to counter Tel Aviv's push across the continent, Ramallah has taken steps to overhaul its strategy and build new networks.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

DRC
UN assigning consultants to establish battery precursor factory in Katanga

DR Congo has plans to make the most of its resources in cobalt, nickel, lithium and manganese by building battery cathode precursor factories in the Haut-Katanga Special Economic Zone. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will lend a hand.

Subscribers only Mining

African Union High Representative for Chad, Basile Ikouébé.

Chad
AU Chad High Representative's reports systematically buried

Appointed in July as the African Union's high representative for Chad, Congolese diplomat Basile Ikouébé has been sending his reports to his superiors in Addis Ababa. But to date, these have never been discussed in any meeting.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Guinea
Junta making slow work of installing post-Condé ambassadorial line-up

Although most of Guinea's ambassadors were recalled in early February, none of them has so far returned to Conakry. Interim president Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya is nevertheless pursuing his efforts little by little to change his country's diplomatic line-up abroad.

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Gambia, Senegal
Ankara trapped between its two West African allies over Casamance

Senegal's military operation against separatist bases in northern Casamance over the past two weeks relies heavily on Turkish expertise. But Ankara is also a close ally of Gambia, which has historic ties to the Casamance rebels and has been deeply affected by the crisis.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
Politicians, businessmen, lawyers... the individuals in the firing line from the 'clean hands' operation

The investigation against former budget minister Abdoulkarim Aden Cher continues to grow with each passing week. Africa Intelligence reveals the names of the individuals questioned and investigated.

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Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Christo Wiese makes a comeback punt in wake of crippling Steinhoff affair

The billionaire lost his shirt when scandal struck the furniture giant in 2017. Buoyed by a recent compensation payout, the self-made South African is back in business.

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Madagascar
China's CR18 wins bid for south-eastern access road

Construction giant China Railway 18th Bureau Group Co (CR18), which was competing against four other companies (three Chinese groups and Sogea Satom), has won the tender launched by the Malagasy Road Agency for the first works on the RNT12A road.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Botswana
Masisi's diamond strategist, Jacob Thamage, visits UN headquarters in New York

Botswana's Jacob Thamage, coordinator of state-owned diamond-processing centre Diamond Hub Botswana and new chair of the Kimberley Process following Botswana's assumption of the organisation's presidency in November, was in New York 21-22 March

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

The Cevital group covers 80% of the oil needs of the Algerian market.

Algeria
Sugar and oil exports ban puts Cevital on a sticky wicket

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's ban on foodstuff exports directly threatens the interests of Algeria's largest private company, which as well as being a major sugar exporter, had plans to sell vegetable oil abroad.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Libya
Haftar war crimes trial to resume in Virginia in June

One of the war crimes trials facing General Khalifa Haftar in the United States has resumed and a new hearing has been set for 16 June.

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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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