Senegal : Former star goalie Cheikh Seck now a defence sector broker
The Senegalese army staff, headed by General Mbaye Cissé, has ordered 50 military trucks from Mercedes-Benz to strengthen its logistical...
Month : November 2023
Madagascar : National Assembly speaker and Christian churches bid to defuse electoral crisis
The results of the first round of Madagascar’s presidential election are expected on 24 November. But around thirty leading figures from the political, diplomatic, military...
Southern Africa : Russian diamonds row paralyses Kimberley Process annual meeting
The annual meeting of the Kimberley Process (KP), the body which presides over the diamond industry’s transparency rules, ended in...
Nigeria : Olaf Scholz revives major Siemens project in Nigeria
Talks on Nigeria’s Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) will continue this week at Siemens Energy’s headquarters in the German city of...
Mauritania : EU funding helps French firms Delair and Sillinger bag border defence deals in Mauritania
Funds provided by Brussels under the European Peace Facility (EPF) are benefiting the French defence sector in Mauritania.The European Union...
South Africa : Ramaphosa skipped Saudi-Africa summit over Riyadh’s BRICS prevarication
Officially, Cyril Ramaphosa stayed away from the first-ever Saudi-Africa summit in Riyadh on 10 November because he had an important event to attend in Pretoria....
Comoros islands : Funding Azali Assoumani’s African Union presidency
Since Comorian President Azali Assoumani became president of the African Union, he has been doing a great deal of travelling...
Ivory Coast : Orabank deal stalls over contested sale price
The soap opera surrounding the takeover of pan-African banking group Orabank by Vista, founded by Burkinabè American Simon Tiemtoré, continues....
Nigeria : Abuja agrees to settlement with ENI over OPL 245
In London, the hearing led by Laurent Lévy and a three-person arbitration team at the World Bank’s International Centre for...
Africa : From Dubai to Cape Town, upstart trader Coral Energy rolls out African offensive
The small world of oil trading was rocked earlier this year by the death of Russian trader Ilya Pereguda, struck down by pneumonia in Dubai...
