Angola/Botswana : Luanda seeks to outmanoeuvre Botswana in race for 2025 AU presidency
President João Lourenço is nurturing hopes of beating Botswana to the African Union presidency in 2025 and is already lobbying behind the scenes....
Month : October 2023
Burkina Faso/Ivory Coast : Saïd Sanogo, Abu Dhabi’s oil rep in Abidjan and Ouagadougou
Emirati oil giant ADNOC has tasked BSC International, which is run by Saïd Sanogo, with boosting its sales of refined products in Burkina Faso and...
DRC : EGC struggles to make cobalt comeback
Under Eric Kalala, who was appointed its managing director at the end of May, the Gecamines artisanal cobalt subsidiary Entreprise...
South Sudan : Lakes State governor Rin Tueny Mabor’s security lab
In a country rocked by armed and inter-communal violence, South Sudan’s Lakes State stands apart. The insecurity there has been...
Libya : Washington accepts continuing Turkish military presence in Libya
One of the conditions of the October 2020 cease-fire between the eastern and western enemy camps was the departure of...
Madagascar : Unsold vanilla stocks pile up as presidential election approaches
The situation is not about to improve on the vanilla front in Madagascar which now has around 4,500 tonnes of...
Gabon : Freemasons chose new leader to replace Ali Bongo
The election of Jacques Denis Tsanga as Grand Master of the Grande Loge du Gabon (GLG), the country’s most powerful Masonic lodge that counts most...
Niger : New intelligence chief Souleymane Balla-Arabé faces steep learning curve
He was far from being the most high-profile officer in the Forces Armées Nigériennes (FAN), but on 31 July Lieutenant Colonel Souleymane Balla-Arabé was appointed...
South Africa : Pandor’s phone call to Hamas causes embarrassment to Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s teams had not planned to devote a large part of their day on 17 October to responding...
South Africa : Orbiflex and weapons maker Ordtech eye west African market
The South African company Orbiflex in early October contacted the business development division of Armscor, Pretoria’s state arms procurement agency,...
