SOUTH AFRICA : South African customs to investigate Russian arms deliveries
Disbelief is growing among the South African public and opposition following a delivery of military equipment in early December by...
Month : January 2023
AFRICA : Football bosses in final stage of picking CAN 2025 host nation
The many powerful members of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) who attended the World Cup in Qatar in December...
NIGERIA : Oil minister Timipre Sylva plays the long game
Samuel Ogbuku’s confirmation as the new managing director of the state-owned Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by the senate on...
CHAD : Savannah wins arbitration battle after junta blocks Exxon asset takeover
The open war between Savannah Energy and the Chadian state intensified late last month. Chad says the British junior announced the takeover of ExxonMobil’s shares...
LIBYA : Former SNC-Lavalin executive Riadh Ben Aissa wins legal battle to keep Paris flat
France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, on 6 December annulled a 26 October 2021 decision by the Paris appeal...
MADAGASCAR : Ambatovy fine-tunes its industrial strategy
The Malagasy mining and industrial leader Ambatovy is already making the most of the country’s Law on Large Scale Mining...
SENEGAL : Dakar speeds up work on its new national port strategy
Port development is one of the priorities of Prime Minister Amadou Ba, who raised the subject during a general policy...
GUINEA : In Conakry, Condé’s former ministers living under tight surveillance
Alpha Condé has made an address to his fellow Guineans for the first time since he was ousted as president...
SOUTH AFRICA/SAUDI ARABIA : Energy lobbyist NJ Ayuk smooths relations between Pretoria and Riyadh
NJ Ayuk, head of the Johannesburg-based African Chamber of Energy (AEC) lobby group, has been schmoozing Saudi Arabia for several months. The Cameroonian lawyer, who...
AFRICA/COMOROS ISLANDS/KENYA : Comoros set to chair African Union as Nairobi makes way
The deal is done. Kenya has given up its battle to prevent Comoros from taking over the post of first...
