Morocco : French foreign minister Séjourné expected in Rabat this week
France’s new foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné will travel to Morocco on 25 February where he will meet with his Moroccan...
Month : February 2024
Niger : Oil and electricity sour junta leader’s relations with Beijing
The head of Niger’s ruling junta, Abdourahamane Tchiani, is considering handing the coveted Bilma oil block to state-owned Société Nigérienne du Pétrole (SONIDEP) at a...
Tunisia : The four influential officers that have Kais Saied’s ear
Tunisia’s National Security Council has just completed an investigation into the escape of several prisoners from the country’s Mornaguia prison...
Morocco : Electric batteries: Rabat consults renowned physicist Rachid Yazami
The day after the fifth LeaderSHE Talks in Fez, Abdellatif Miraoui, Morocco’s minister for higher education, discreetly received world-famous Moroccan...
Mauritania/Senegal : BP’s launch plans for Tortue thwarted again
The Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (Tortue/GTA) Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit, which is supposed to collect the associated liquids...
Guinea : Doumbouya pursues international lobbying campaign to extend transition period
Doubts are growing over just how willing General Mamadi Doumbouya’s junta really is to leave power within a year. And with good reason, just before...
Mauritania/Tunisia : Saïed due to travel to Nouakchott
Barring any last-minute changes, President Kaïs Saïed is to travel to Nouakchott before the end of the month for an...
Angola : Agro-food giant Carrinho looks to expand abroad
A delegation from Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), a Brazilian state-run company that the academic Silvia Maria Fonseca Silveira...
Togo : Army overseeing construction of new secret northern base
For weeks now, construction equipment has been in operation near the hamlet of Dihiaga, not far from the border with...
DRC : Last chance for Congo Airways’ survival plans to take off
If Congo Airways does not manage to acquire working aircraft of its own, duly entered in the Congolese register, by 2 March, it risks having...
