CONGO/FRANCE : Chrysoula Zacharopoulou’s tour of the two Congos
France’s secretary of state for the Francophonie, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, is to visit Brazzaville from 18 to 20 December to discuss the One Planet Summit with Congolese...
Month : December 2022
LIBYA : New Libyan ambassador due in Paris by year’s end
The new Libyan ambassador to Paris, Khaled Kagigi, will officially take up his post next week. He replaces Hamed Ahmed Elhouderi, who had been in...
IVORY COAST : Service providers at Abidjan airport want out
Security firm Avisecure, an offshoot of Canadian group Visual Defence, may soon sell its business at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny International Airport in Abidjan....
IVORY COAST : Bruno Le Maire’s Ivorian agenda
France’s economy minister Bruno Le Maire will travel to Abidjan on 18 December to attend the launch of the third phase of upgrade works at...
CHAD : ExxonMobil’s messy exit from Chad
The last employees of ExxonMobil left Chad by plane on the evening of Friday 9 December, just a few hours before Savannah...
DJIBOUTI : EU’s $40m overspend on Doraleh desalination plant
Africa Intelligence has learned that the European Union is now about €40m over budget on the project to expand the...
UGANDA : Ugandan opposition struggles to reap benefits from NRM infighting
The statement came as a surprise. Last week, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the eldest son of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, declared that...
SOUTH AFRICA : Ramaphosa chivvies state capture probe along
There have still been no convictions relating to the “state capture” scandal which occurred under Jacob Zuma’s presidency and involved...
ETHIOPIA/GABON/SENEGAL : African battle for coveted UNESCO post
A reception hosted on 24 November by China’s ambassador to UNESCO, Yang Jin, for thirty of his counterparts has given rise...
LIBYA : Saddam Haftar puts eastern Libyan banks at his service
Khalifa Haftar, the eastern Libyan strongman, remains in charge of military tactics, while his son Saddam Haftar handles the clan’s financial strategy, especially in the...
