Ethiopia/Kenya/Morocco : Morocco, Kenya, Ethiopia
Morocco: Brahim Yacoubi Soussane, at helm of naval industryBrahim Yacoubi Soussane has been chair of the Moroccan naval hub, CINM,...
Month : February 2024
Africa : African securocrats flock to Riyadh arms fair
Saudi Arabia’s second World Defense Show (WDS), which is taking place in Riyadh from 4 to 8 February, has been...
Cameroon : UK troops caught up in military turf war
On 16 January, President Paul Biya received Alastair McPhail, Britain’s special envoy for the UK-African Investment Summit 2024, which is scheduled to take place in...
Africa : OPEC launches African charm offensive
OPEC Secretary General Haitham al-Ghais of Kuwait plans to travel to Abuja in May to meet Nigerian President Ahmed Bola...
Nigeria : Afreximbank struggles to get Project Gazelle backers
State-owned oil company Nigerian National Petroleum Corp’s (NNPC) ambition to raise billions of dollars in financing for its Project Gazelle,...
Senegal : Military equipment brokers push for deals in Dakar
Since the beginning of the year, Dakar’s hotels have been brimming with military equipment brokers working hard to secure contracts....
DRC : Kinshasa paves way for secret negotiations with Kigali
Three years after the start of the conflict, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi is still struggling with the M23 in eastern DR Congo. It is pursuing...
Mozambique/Rwanda : Nyusi in urgent security talks with Kagame
On 25 January, the Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi discreetly flew into Kigali for urgent talks with the Rwandan leader Paul Kagame. Their...
DRC : Tshisekedi clan involved in former Katanga province’s mining wild west
On the phone from one of his regular haunts, Dubai or Johannesburg, “Monsieur Coco” was getting into his stride. “I’m going to have you whipped,...
DRC : Head of UN peacekeeping expected in Kinshasa
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, is due to visit Kinshasa in February to discuss the details of MONUSCO’s withdrawal from Ituri...
