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Morocco
Shipowners tired of waiting for merchant navy assessment

Moroccan shipowners have been waiting since July for US firm BCG to deliver a report ordered by the Ministry of Transport. One of their key concerns is how ship orders will be financed.

Morocco
Under pressure, Royal Air Maroc seeks strategy consultant

RAM is making improvements ahead of the 2030 World Cup. The airline is studying proposals from strategy consultancies in response to two invitations to tender issued at the end of the summer.

Senegal
McKinsey consultancy quietly involved in urea plant project

The American consulting giant has supported the state oil company Petrosen in conducting two studies into the feasibility of a major project to build a urea plant. Dakar is counting on this initiative to reduce its dependence on foreign imports.

The New Guard
Benin, CAR, Qatar-Somalia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

BeninAbiola Oïtchayomi, BCG consultant and cofounder of African publication Jamaa

Central African RepublicPamela Audrey Derom, standard-bearer for youth

QatarFaisal bin Abdullah Al Hanzab, the new ‘Mr Somalia'

Nigeria
NNPC moves in after Seplat fails to buy ExxonMobil blocks

ExxonMobil is more than ready to negotiate withdrawal conditions for shallow offshore blocks with Nigeria's state agency. But it will be no easy matter.

Southern Africa, United States
Tracr diamond tracking software battle resumes with De Beers and BCG lawsuit

After more than a year of waiting, a former BCG employee is resuming legal action against the company and De Beers over the development of its Tracr blockchain-based diamond tracking software, which he claims was based on the results of his doctoral research in the field.

Morocco
Parisian ventures mark Moulay M'hamed Elalamy's transformation of Saham Group

The son of industry minister Moulay Hafid Elalamy has set up a real estate company in Paris and is exerting his influence on the family group by restructuring its management and Saham's activities.

Morocco
Akhannouch generation 2.0 joins family business

The daughters of Morocco's agriculture minister Aziz Akhannouch have in recent months embarked on a range of e-commerce ventures, a move that will also boost their parents' businesses.

Spotlight | Africa
McKinsey scores win over BCG in Libreville in pan-African battle of consultants

Embroiled in a fierce battle for government contracts in Africa with rival Boston Consulting Group since the spring, McKinsey has scored a significant win over its rival in Gabon.

Algeria
Sonatrach 2030: Tebboune preserves slice of BCG-Ould Kaddour legacy

It seems that "Sonatrach 2030", the ambitious plan to overhaul Sonatrach's business model elaborated by America's Boston Consulting Group between 2017 and 2019, will not after all be rejected by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.