Senegal : Dakar’s secret €300m arms contract
The financial difficulties that have plagued President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s administration for months did not prevent the Ministry of the Armed Forces, headed by Birame...
Month : March 2025
Morocco : Moulay Hafid Elalamy makes his business comeback surrounded by trusted allies
Late last year, the businessman and former minister Moulay Hafid Elalamy (MHE) drew on 30 years of experience of running his own holding company, Saham,...
Madagascar : Base Toliara company speeds up revision of mining investment legislation
The process of revising the law on large-scale mining investments (LGIM), enacted in 2022, is reaching an advanced stage. The […]...
Africa : Félix Tshisekedi, João Lourenço, Burna Boy, William Ruto
DRC – Félix Tshisekedi ruffles João Lourenço’s feathersIn Windhoek, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi tried to request a meeting with his […]...
Senegal : Eramet goes on offensive against critics of its Grande Côte mineral sands mine
The French mining group Eramet, a tad overwhelmed by the scale of the controversy over the social and environmental impact of its Grande […]...
Morocco : NEO Motors prospects for new business with Mohammed VI’s backing
NEO Motors’ customer base is becoming increasingly eclectic. In early March, the automobile manufacturer delivered its first consignment of entirely Moroccan-made vehicles to the Royal...
Algeria/Ivory Coast/Namibia : Ivory Coast, Namibia, Algeria
Ivory Coast – Simon Seroussi, Israel’s new ambassadorThe Ivory Coast authorities have accepted Simon Seroussi as the new head of the […]...
Senegal : Faced with attempted coup d’état accusations, General Kandé seeks to clear his name
Brigadier General Souleymane Kandé, who served as the army’s chief of the Land Forces from 2022 to 2024 under former […]...
Algeria : French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot expected in Algiers
Despite the daily skirmishes between Paris and Algiers, Jean-Noël Barrot’s teams and his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf are secretely planning […]...
Morocco/Somalia : How Puntland and its allies battle Islamic State in Somalia
Western intelligence services are stepping up their hunt for the terrorist organisation Islamic State (ISIS) in the Levant and in Africa. British and US intelligence...
