newsNIGERIA : Kano State shaping up as key battleground of 2023 presidential electionTheWorldsNewsNovember 24, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 24, 20220 The incumbent governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, is staking everything on the Nigerian general election in February. His political fate now depends on...
newsIVORY COAST : Ezzedine family buys Castel’s water business in Abidjan for €16.7mTheWorldsNewsNovember 24, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 24, 20220 The Société de Limonaderies et de Brasseries d’Afrique (Solibra), a subsidiary of French group Castel, is about to sell its...
newsGERMANY/FRANCE : French-German parliamentary diplomacy ramps up over the SahelTheWorldsNewsNovember 24, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 24, 20220 On 1 December, Berlin will host a symposium on rethinking the French and German military presence in the Sahel in...
newsSENEGAL : Ex-PM Aminata Touré talks 2024 presidential election with former opponentsTheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 20220 Since her September departure from the majority after President Macky Sall refused to appoint her as parliamentary speaker, Aminata Touré...
newsINDIA/SENEGAL : Macky Sall makes moves as India’s rice protectionism puts Dakar on edgeTheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 20220 Senegal is one of Africa’s leading consumers of broken rice and New Delhi’s measures over the past three months to ban, and then limit, the...
newsNAMIBIA : QKR wants more space at Navachab goldmineTheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 20220 QKR Namibia (QKR), which owns the Navachab gold mine on the outskirts of the town of Karibib, northwest of Windhoek,...
newsBURKINA FASO/CONGO/IVORY COAST/EQUATORIAL GUINEA/GUINEA BISSAU : Palace intrigues: Alassane Ouattara, Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Aristides Gomès, Omar Denis Bongo JuniorTheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 20220 Ivory Coast/Burkina Faso: Ouattara wary of the Burkinabe PMAlthough Alassane Ouattara’s inner circle quickly built ties with the new Burkina...
newsMAURITANIA : Ghazouani launches investment drive from Tokyo to WashingtonTheWorldsNewsNovember 22, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 22, 20220 A delegation from MEDEF, the French employers’ organisation, is due to visit Mauritania in the first half of 2023 to...
newsKENYA : Under pressure from Beijing, Ruto reveals little about mammoth rail contractTheWorldsNewsNovember 22, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 22, 20220 Was Kenya’s main port used as collateral for an EximBank of China loan to build the Nairobi-Mombasa rail link? The disclosure on 7 November by...
newsTUNISIA : PM Najla Bouden skating on thin ice after smiling at Israeli presidentTheWorldsNewsNovember 22, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 22, 20220 As she was about to leave on 10 November for the fifth Paris Peace Forum, Prime Minister Najla Bouden was...