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Palace Intrigues
Félix Tshisekedi, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Patrick Pouyanné, Paul Kagame, Mohammed VI

Intrigues big and small - every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

DRCTshisekedi's Caribbean stay

CARGrey clouds hang over Touadéra's birthday weekend

RwandaTotalEnergies boss Pouyanné to attend Kigali CEO forum

MoroccoMohammed VI invites clerics to palace

Central African Republic
Discreet Parisian meeting between Touadéra and Tamoil RCA boss

Enguerrand Rochefort met the CAR president in Paris last week to discuss the problems his company faces in the Central African market.

Tunisia
Tunis falling behind on renewable energy plans

Several renewable energy power generation projects in Tunisia are running late and a company that won several tenders has decided to scale back its investments.

Cameroon
Foreign backers come to Camwater's aid

Cameroon's public drinking water supply company has called upon European, Indian and American banks to fund the modernisation of its systems.

Morocco
Rabat welcomes Brazilian agricultural firms with open arms

Brazil will officially attend Morocco's SIAM agricultural fair, thus confirming its heightened interest in a market that it began exporting cattle to last year.

Rwanda
Kigali overhauls its EU diplomacy amid tensions with Belgium

Rwanda has decided to transfer responsibility for European affairs to Berlin following a diplomatic standoff with the Belgian authorities.

Tunisia
Australian miner Himilco Resources secures new minerals permit

The mining firm has obtained a second permit, thus expanding its presence in the country.

The New Guard
Senegal, Morocco, Ethiopia

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

Senegal Senegalese engineer Frédéric Zanklan takes charge at Eramet company

Morocco Ismael Belkhayat, serial start-upper

Ethiopia Dawit Abebayehu prepares his country's "ESG" strategy

Morocco
Paris court dismisses Campus ESG's case against French group Exel'Conseils

On 26 March, the Paris Court of Appeal dismissed a case brought by Campus ESG challenging the jurisdiction of that court in a dispute with its former parent company Exel'Conseils.

Lesotho
Chinese state giants CCEC and Sinohydro lose water network contract to Sino-Botswanan UCE

The Sino-Botswana company Unik Construction Engineering has begun building a water transmission network and reservoirs in the Leribe district, in the north of Lesotho.

Morocco
Aziz Akhannouch tackles touchy social matters

A decrease in butane gas subsidies, pension reform, unemployment benefits... Halfway through his term, a plateful of strategic and sensitive matters await Morocco's prime minister.

The New Guard
Senegal and Ivory Coast, DRC, Cameroon

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

Senegal/Ivory Coast Yannick Houphouët Kouablan, watchman for the Teranga security group

DRC Taxman Floyd Kabuya dreams of being Kinshasa governor

Cameroon Emmanuel Olivier Ava-Ava, Central Asia's link to Yaoundé

Kenya
Multi-billion dollar tax shortfall thwarts Ruto's economic plans

The Kenya Revenue Authority has collected considerably fewer shillings than expected, greatly irking President William Ruto's economic advisers and prompting a dressing down from the Treasury.

Senegal
Mali's GIC wins race for Dakar to Saint-Louis motorway over France's Artelia

A consortium led by Mali's Groupe d'Ingénierie et de Construction (GIC) has just won a €2.8m contract to supervise the construction of a section of the planned motorway from Dakar to Saint-Louis.

Tanzania
Indian companies scoop court-building contracts

Two Indian companies, Deep Construction and Rizvi Builders, have won major contracts to build new courthouses in Tanzania.