Congo : Commisimpex buys back Sassou’s jet for $7.1m
Commisimpex has bought back Sassou’s Falcon 7X jet for $7.1m...
Month : December 2023
Ethiopia : Government short of cash to pay GERD contractors
Work on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the River Nile, which has been entirely self-financed by government bonds, could shortly suffer new delays....
Algeria/Tunisia : Algiers commissions Cevital to supply sugar to Tunis
The Tunisian government is facing another year of sugar shortage and has asked Algeria for an emergency supply....
Benin : Singapore’s Rex set to take over Sèmè oil field
Benin’s Sèmè oil field (block 1) will be taken over by the Singapore-based Rex International Holdings....
DRC/Kenya : The Corneille Nangaa affair rips apart Kinshasa-Nairobi relations
Corneille Nangaa spent time preparing his visit to Nairobi to highlight his exile and his transformation into a radical political...
Kenya : Nairobi seeks guarantees before sending police to Haiti
Kenya’s decision to contribute police units to an international security mission in Haiti is far from meeting with unanimous approval...
Angola : Alrosa stakes indirect claim in SML
The identity of the shareholders in Sociedade Mineira de Luele (SML) has come as something of a surprise. Late last...
Ivory Coast : Ouattara allies squabble over Bougouanou bauxite
The Ivorian courts are to attempt to untangle the threads of the conflict that since 2020 has pitted a number...
Niger : Hama Amadou’s political manoeuvres unsettle Tchiani
Since returning to Niger in September after two years of exile (AI, 11/09/23), Hama Amadou, the leading opponent of former...
Angola/Congo/DRC : Swiss prosecute Trafigura for ‘bribing’ Angolan officials
Trafigura and two of its former executives are being tried before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on suspicion of active bribery of officials in Angola....
