Madagascar : Diplomatic community shores up speaker of parliament
It was a close call for Christine Razanamahasoa, the speaker of Madagascar’s lower house, who was almost dismissed by her peers after sharply criticising Andry...
Month : November 2023
Mauritania : Three firms vie for contract to build Mauritania’s second submarine cable
Sonatel, the Senegalese subsidiary of French giant Orange, Mauritania Submarine Link Consortium and Ireland-based EllaLink are competing for the contract to build Mauritania’s second submarine...
Congo : Security services dismantle Commisimpex side channel
Brazzaville recently suffered a major setback against Commisimpex at an arbitration tribunal in Paris (AI, 07/11/2023), but even before that latest...
Burundi : Bujumbura to make fresh EITI mining transparency application
Much of the cabinet meeting on 6 November chaired by Évariste Ndayishimiye was devoted to reviving the country’s mining sector....
Tunisia : Court revisits banking practices of Ben Ali era
Tunisia’s transitional justice system is once again looking at a Ben Ali-era corruption case. On 11 November, the chamber of...
Ivory Coast : Foxtrot and Tullow Oil hone their drilling plans
The Ivorian coastline will be the theatre of several offshore drilling campaigns in the coming months, ENI’s discovery of the...
Ethiopia : Abiy’s dream team prepares for stock exchange launch
To help him launch the new Ethiopian stock exchange, Abiy Ahmed has gathered around him a group of managers drawn from the private sector and...
Ivory Coast : Tidjane Thiam secret phone tap agitates Ouattara’s inner circle
In the upper echelons of the Ivorian state, rumours of the recording’s existence have been doing the rounds for almost three years. Always referred to...
Morocco : Benoit La Salle hammers out Tangiers graphite plant details with Rabat
The Canadian mining operator Benoît La Salle, who is the boss of Aya Gold & Silver, has been clarifying the...
Africa : Alassane Ouattara, Emmanuel Macron, Faure Gnassingbé, Charles Blé Goudé, Blaise Matuidi
Ivory Coast – Ouattara and Macron try to set date for meetingAs Africa Intelligence announced, French president Emmanuel Macron is...
