ALGERIA : Promised Sahel export hubs slow to get off the ground
Algiers has been slow to make good on its ambitions to develop Sahel trade by building logistics hubs in the far south. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s...
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FRANCE/MALI : Emmanuel Macron cancels visit to Bamako
French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Mali, announced on 15 December, will not take place after all. The government is...
BURKINA FASO : Kaboré’s party faces existential crisis
The announcement of a new government, which was formed on 13 December under the leadership of Lassina Zerbo, does little...
AFRICA : Viasat, SpaceX and Airtel look to launch Africa’s internet into orbit
At the end of November, Nasdaq-listed US satellite telecommunications giant Viasat began the process of becoming a Mozambican internet provider. The...
NAMIBIA : Kalahari copperbelt fever slowly spreads to Namibia
Rocketing copper prices, which have risen from $2.2/lb in March 2020 to over $4.4/lb this December, have proved a boon...
GUINEA : Dynamic rejoins race to produce bauxite
In order to meet its ambition to ship a first boatload of its bauxite in mid-May 2023, Dynamic Mining, the...
MOROCCO : Why Brussels envoy Youssef Amrani is still missing in action
Mohammed VI brought to an end a seemingly interminable diplomatic hiatus when, on 14 December, he officially appointed 19 new...
MOZAMBIQUE : TotalEnergies reviews all its options in Cabo Delgado
Deploy several floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities? Move the land-based LNG trains further south? TotalEnergies’ contractors on the Mozambique...
AFRICA : Russia opts for Saint Petersburg as summit venue in face of African squabbling
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov has finally made up his mind. The second Africa-Russia summit will take place in November 2022 in President Vladimir...
SOUTH AFRICA : Denel’s top brass struggles to turn around troubled defence champion
In early December, at the behest of finance minister Enoch Godongwana, South Africa’s National Treasury released €160m to pay off part of the debt of...
