Liberia : Robert Friedland seeks to schmooze president-elect Boakai
US-Canadian magnate Robert Friedland is due to meet Liberia’s new head of state, Joseph Boakai, before the end of the...
Month : December 2023
Gabon : Traders compete to finance GOC’s bid to takeover Carlyle’s oil assets
At the end of November, Gabon Oil Co (GOC) officially announced that it was exercising its right to pre-empt the Gabonese oil assets put up...
Somalia : IMF set to give Mogadishu clean slate
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board is scheduled to meet in Washington on 13 December and should finalise a three-year-long...
Cameroon : Samuel Eto’o nervously awaits publication of new book
The journalist Jean-Bruno Tagne, who led Samuel Eto’o’s 2021 election campaign to head the Cameroonian Football Federation (FECAFOOT), has written a behind-the-scenes story of his...
DRC : Ivanhoe loses legal battle against Vidiye Tshimanga
Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines is going to have to rein in its ambitions for Western Foreland after losing its appeal in Paris against Vidiye Tshimanga’s firm....
Morocco : Health minister Aït Taleb loosens purse strings for Oriental region
The Oriental region, one of the hardest hit by rising unemployment in Morocco, is currently the focus of attention of government ministers and Health Minister...
Algeria/Egypt/Libya : Africans sceptical of Al Jaber’s COP28 renewables pledge
The Emirati sultan Ahmed al-Jaber has just four days left to persuade Libya, Algeria and Egypt, three of the continent’s...
Mozambique/Zimbabwe : Harare serves as Minsk’s stepping stone into southern Africa
Presidents Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus and Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe met last week while in Dubai for the COP28, which...
Burkina Faso/Niger : EU rift precipitates G5 Sahel crisis
A confidential document leaked to French-language African media outlets on 2 December came as a big surprise to many Western...
Burundi : Ndayishimiye jettisons old guard to consolidate power in Bujumbura
It has taken him three years, but President Evariste Ndayishimiye has now achieved his goal. After East African Affairs Minister Ezéchiel Nibigira’s departure in last...
