NAMIBIA : QKR wants more space at Navachab goldmine
QKR Namibia (QKR), which owns the Navachab gold mine on the outskirts of the town of Karibib, northwest of Windhoek,...
Month : November 2022
BURKINA FASO/CONGO/IVORY COAST/EQUATORIAL GUINEA/GUINEA BISSAU : Palace intrigues: Alassane Ouattara, Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Aristides Gomès, Omar Denis Bongo Junior
Ivory Coast/Burkina Faso: Ouattara wary of the Burkinabe PMAlthough Alassane Ouattara’s inner circle quickly built ties with the new Burkina...
MAURITANIA : Ghazouani launches investment drive from Tokyo to Washington
A delegation from MEDEF, the French employers’ organisation, is due to visit Mauritania in the first half of 2023 to...
KENYA : Under pressure from Beijing, Ruto reveals little about mammoth rail contract
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...
TUNISIA : PM Najla Bouden skating on thin ice after smiling at Israeli president
As she was about to leave on 10 November for the fifth Paris Peace Forum, Prime Minister Najla Bouden was...
MOZAMBIQUE : ExxonMobil and ENI prepare the ground for the second Coral FLNG
The final investment decision (FID) by ExxonMobil and ENI for a second FLNG (vessel storing and liquefying gas at sea),...
MOZAMBIQUE : From Madagascar to Cabo Delgado, the nine lives of Sofema’s CN-235 plane
The CN-235 plane, which was once operated by the French company Sofema, has just been delivered to the Forças Armadas...
IVORY COAST/MALI : Billion-dollar deal paranoia unnerves shaky Abidjan-Bamako relations
In a complex web of ties linking Berlin and Bamako via Dubai, tonnes of gold and $1bn are now at the heart of a political...
CONGO : Medef seeking investments but not Jean-Jacques Bouya in Brazzaville
The French employers’ federation, MEDEF, is due to visit Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of Congo, from 7 to 9 December, after a stop...
MOZAMBIQUE/RWANDA/EUROPEAN UNION : Kigali poised to receive €20m from EU to fund its military intervention in Cabo Delgado
The EU, through the European Peace Facility, could delay by a few weeks the release of its €20m aid package to finance Kigali’s military intervention...
