AFRICA : Guinea, Morocco, Tanzania, Kenya
Guinea – Saikou Amadou Diallo, helming the fight against graftLess than six months after taking on its leadership, Saikou Amadou...
Month : March 2023
NIGERIA : Key witness fails to show during $11bn P&ID vs Nigeria hearings
A snippet of information let slip by lawyer David Wolfson on 9 March, the last day of a complex trial...
ALGERIA : Abdelmadjid Tebboune prepares major reshuffle
Numerous ministers are likely to be affected by a major government reshuffle, the details of which are currently being finalised. Ramtane Lamamra, who has been...
AFRICA : Paul Biya, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Ali Bongo, Gims, Mathilde of Belgium
Gabon: Biya skips summit, Sassou snubs group photoAll four of the forest basin region’s leaders attended the One Forest Summit...
IVORY COAST : BICICI’s new shareholders appoint their Ivorian directors
The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) is set shortly to approve the names of the new Ivorian directors...
MALI : General Harouna Samaké, the army’s well-connected new boss
The Malian ambassador to Moscow, General Harouna Samaké, was accompanying the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on an official visit...
GUINEA : The $500m stand-off developing over Simandou
President Mamadi Doumbouya has ordered the consortia led by Rio Tinto and Winning International Group to complete negotiations with the government in Conakry on the...
SOUTH AFRICA : State Security Agency loses out in Ramaphosa’s reshuffle
The long-awaited cabinet reshuffle, announced on the 6 March by President Cyril Ramaphosa, did not reassure those lobbying for a...
SENEGAL : Cheikh Ndiaye liaises between Italian defence firms and Dakar
The 12th annual African Air Chiefs Symposium, held in Dakar from 28 February to 3 March, provided an occasion for...
IVORY COAST : Cargill granted extra cocoa beans quota
Unlike the other major international traders in Ivory Coast, the agricultural trading giant Cargill has been able to continue buying...
