Libya : How Libyan Investment Authority plans to unfreeze its assets
The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) secured a partial victory at the United Nations sanctions committee on Libya on 16 January […]...
Month : January 2025
Angola : Finance woes stall Soyo refinery project
The usual optimism within the Quanten Consortium has been replaced by open worry as the US joint venture’s plan to […]...
Mauritania : Ghazouani still unable to use his presidential plane
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani’s plane has been at a standstill for 10 months. Grounded in the United Arab Emirates, […]...
Southern Africa : Macron sets course for Indian Ocean’s southern islands
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to honour the invitation from his Madagascan counterpart Andry Rajoelina to the fifth summit of the Indian Ocean Commission...
Equatorial Guinea : Treasury Minister delegate Obono Angue becomes Vice President Teodorin’s bête noire
As the Equatorial Guinean economy sinks ever deeper into recession with each passing year (its GDP contracted by 5.7% in […]...
East Africa : From Ethiopia to Tanzania, the common electricity market sparks envy
As the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, co-organised by the World Bank (WB) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), opens […]...
Senegal : Future of Air Senegal in doubt
Air Senegal’s management teams received a somewhat alarmist letter on the morning of 17 January. Written by Bpifrance’s air transport […]...
Egypt : Cairo’s military wheat takeover rattles suppliers from Sofia to Moscow
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has taken a risky gamble. For more than a month, the Egyptian president has been struggling to convince grain markets of the...
Libya : How Khalifa Haftar and Abdelhamid Dabaiba sacrificed NOC boss
The departure of the head of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), officially for health reasons, came at a time when his […]...
South Sudan : Juba launches programme to clean up public finances
The Canadian company FreeBalance has been awarded a two-year contract worth around $15m, financed by the World Bank, to improve the management of South Sudan’s...
