Central African Republic : Third IMF support tranche snags on reform of hydrocarbons sector
Hervé Ndoba’s week in Washington last month was fraught. The Central African finance minister was in the US capital for […]...
Month : November 2024
DRC : Kinshasa promises to audit exceptional security spending
Security spending was at the heart of recent discussions between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Congolese government which […]...
Ethiopia/Somalia : Paramilitary defectors alter security balance between Addis Ababa and Mogadishu
The Ethiopian federal state of Somali Regional State (SRS) in the east of the country is undergoing a rapid reshaping […]...
Nigeria : Nigerian junior Green Energy close to completing new Rivers oil terminal
For the past few days, engineers have been carrying out a series of tests on four, several-metre-high reservoirs, installed a […]...
DRC : Intel agency probes authenticity of data on Dan Gertler’s former oil block
Hard drives that vanish before suddenly reappearing in a safe in the Congolese hydrocarbons ministry: the affair is embarrassing right up to the top echelons...
Tunisia : French student Victor Dupont released from Tunisian detention
French researcher Victor Dupont has been released by the Tunisian authorities and is due to return to France on 15 November. The 27-year-old PhD student...
Zimbabwe : Finance minister Ncube struggles to make mark as Harare’s debt negotiator
President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Mthuli Ncube as finance minister in September 2018. He hadn’t even known him when President Robert Mugabe was ousted almost a...
South Africa : Opposition leader John Steenhuisen struggles to assemble his agriculture ministry team
Just over four months since being sworn in as Minister of Agriculture at the beginning of July, South African opposition […]...
Africa : Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Nadia Fettah, Rachida Dati
Republic of Congo – Sassou hosts VIP bankers in Oyo strongholdOn 4 November, the Congolese president Denis Sassou-Nguesso invited top […]...
Rwanda : Gold trader Alain Goetz sets legal guns on Rwanda and Western sanctions
Alain Goetz is waging legal and political battles on several fronts. At the same time as trying to extricate himself and companies he controls from...
