CAMEROON : Yaoundé cancels visit from Canadian envoy to discuss Anglophone crisis
Ottawa will have to show a little more patience before attempting to initiate talks again about the Anglophone Crisis. Its assistant deputy minister for global...
Month : April 2023
MOROCCO : Youssef Ziani launches Fès industrial park project with SORTRAC
Building Ain Bida’s industrial park will cost close to €18m. The project is funded by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Fès-Meknès region....
IVORY COAST : Thales targets lucrative military radio contract
Thales representatives in Ivory Coast are currently chasing after a contract for military radios that could be worth tens of millions of euros....
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/FRANCE : TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR
The Central African subsidiary of the French energy giant TotalEnergies is changing hands. The firm, which is riddled with debts...
SOMALIA : Hargeisa treads tightrope with Washington over Las Anod crisis
The government of Somaliland did not dither over its response to a US State Department statement published on 30 March...
LIBYA : Dabaiba aligns his militias with Haftar’s military
After years of division, top security officials from the west and east of the country posed smiling on 26 March...
ANGOLA : Lourenço completes diplomatic overhaul with appointments to Lusaka, Pretoria and Washington
A swathe of key Angolan ambassadorial appointments has been made to complete the list announced last month (AI, 16/03/23). President...
NIGERIA : NNPC relocates trading subsidiary to Dubai
The appointment of Franco-Swiss national Jean-Marc Cordier as head of the trading subsidiary of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp...
BURKINA FASO : Ouagadougou edges closer to gold refinery build
Burkina Faso’s cash-strapped military leader Ibrahim Traoré has a critical contract to award for the construction and running of a...
KENYA : Washington’s role in Ruto-Odinga détente
The suspension of demonstrations led by the Azimio la Umoja coalition announced on Sunday by opposition leader Raila Odinga was the result of delicate diplomacy....
