SENEGAL : New owners for Senergy 2
La plus ancienne centrale solaire photovoltaïque d’Afrique de l’Ouest, Senergy 2, est sur le point de changer de propriétaires....
Month : February 2023
ERITREA/KENYA : Afwerki cosies up to Ruto at Abiy’s expense
After a rapprochement in 2018, the Eritrean leader Isaias Afwerki is now increasingly distancing himself from the Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali....
LIBYA : LIA loses lawsuit against property tycoon Roger King
On 10 February, the Libyan Investment Authority lost the lawsuit it brought to the UK courts in 2018 against British property tycoon Roger Milner King,...
SOUTH AFRICA : Hyve Group and African Energy Chamber go head-to-head in court
The Johannesburg High Court has now heard for a second time about a dispute between the London-based events giant Hyve Group,...
WEST AFRICA/FRANCE : Macron to bring forward statement on French bases in Africa
Emmanuel Macron is currently putting the final touches to an announcement – as eagerly awaited by his fellow Europeans as...
NIGERIA : Ex-MEND leader Tompolo struggles to curtail oil theft
In September last year, Government “Tompolo” Ekpemupolo, the former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta...
CONGO/GABON : Bongo and Sassou ready to bury hatchet
As well as providing a platform for the region’s environmentalists, the One Forest Summit that opens in Libreville on 1 March could serve as an...
AFRICA : Africa’s small oil producers court Gulf states at OPEC
The Saudi delegation that visited the Republic of the Congo in mid-February made a promise to international cooperation minister Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, the son...
IVORY COAST : Worried Ivorian cocoa traders turn to Ouattara for help
As the main harvest of the 2022-2023 season comes to end, most Ivorian cocoa exporters belonging to the Groupement des...
NIGER : Tensions brew between Orano and Niamey over Imouraren
Beneath the surface, tensions are brewing between Orano and the Niamey government. Officially, relations between the French giant, led by...
