Ivory Coast : Ouattara to visit Macron at Elysée Palace
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is to travel to France on 25 January. While he will start with a short stay...
Month : January 2024
Morocco : Label’Vie digs itself out of supermarket boycott hole
The firm Label’Vie, run by Zouhair Bennani and Rachid Hadni, and which owns Carrefour Market and Carrefour brand stores in...
Angola : Sonangol: Isabel dos Santos indicted for ‘defrauding Angolan state’
The Angolan judiciary has issued an indictment against Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the late president José Eduardo dos Santos...
Nigeria : Tinubu paves way for businessman Samuel Dossou-Aworet in sale of Shell assets
Nigeria’s attitude to the sale by oil majors of their assets in the Niger Delta has undergone a radical change....
Mozambique : Mozambique LNG: TotalEnergies decision on force majeure imminent
There has been a resurgence of attacks by Islamist groups in the region, but the keenly awaited resumption of work on Mozambique LNG, which is...
Central African Republic : Wagner prioritises provinces over Bangui
Paramilitaries from Russia’s Wagner are significantly stepping up security at Ndassima near Bambari in the Ouaka prefecture of the Central...
DRC : Macron’s new Africa adviser heads to Kinshasa
French President Emmanuel Macron’s new Africa adviser Jérémie Robert is due in Kinshasa for Félix Tshisekedi’s inauguration on 20 January....
Algeria : Lobbyist Tayeb Benabderrahmane pursues battle with Rachida Dati’s lawyers
The next round in the legal stand-off between French-Algerian businessman Tayeb Benabderrahmane and those he claims acted as his advisers during his 2020 detention in...
Algeria : Transport minister confines ferry to Bejaia port for repairs
The Algerian ferry Tariq-Ibn-Ziyad, belonging to the Entreprise nationale de transport maritime de voyageurs (Algérie Ferries), has been moored at the port of Béjaïa since...
Ivory Coast : China’s CREC-COVEC consortium pulls out of Abidjan electric bus project
Despite winning the international call for tenders in October, the consortium made up of Chinese companies CREC and Covec has withdrawn from the Bus Rapid...
