KENYA : Leadership dispute paralyses Kenya’s powerful Chamber of Commerce
The latest casualty in the conflict between the old and new leadership teams at the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce...
Month : July 2023
SUDAN : Hemeti gains recruits in Darfur rear base
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemeti, received some welcome news from Darfur on 16 July when the Central Reserve Police (CRP)...
NORTH AFRICA : Moncef Sassi to keep an eye on foreign affairs for Kais Saied
The appointment on 6 July of Colonel Major Moncef Sassi as a chargé de mission in the private office of...
IVORY COAST : Société Générale deputy CEO Palmieri seeks to reassure Abidjan
In early July, the French banking group Société Générale dispatched its new deputy chief executive Pierre Palmieri to Abidjan. Officially,...
ALGERIA : Algiers cold-shoulders Chinese companies involved in Bouteflika-era scandals
The Algerian leader Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who has been on an official visit to China since 17 July at the invitation of Xi Jinping, is looking...
AFRICA : Mali, Kenya, Uganda
Mali – Ali Soumaré, from PS to PRAfter a spell in French politics, notably with the Socialist Party (PS), 42-year-old...
BURKINA FASO : Junta clinches lightning sale of Tambao and Inata mines
It all happened very quickly. Barely four months passed between the junta’s approval of the sale of the state’s mining...
LIBYA : NOC boss Farhat Bengdara manoeuvres to set up financial oversight committee
National Oil Corp (NOC) chairman Farhat Omar Bengdara has been working for several months behind the scenes on the creation of a High financial oversight...
EGYPT/TURKEY : Ambassador Amr Soliman Elhamamy, architect of Sisi’s visit to Ankara
No sooner had Amr Soliman Elhamamy been promoted to the rank of ambassador to Ankara than he found himself immersed...
AFRICA : MbZ, Félix Tshisekedi, Alassane Ouattara, Qin Gang, Gims
DRC: MbZ to visit Kinshasa on 15 AugustUAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, known as MbZ, is to make...
