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The Democratic Alliance leader is struggling to make his voice heard within South Africa’s new ten-party coalition. Steenhuisen, who now serves as agriculture minister, relies on a small circle of loyalists to try and counterbalance the dominant ANC.
The prominent Congolese magistrate, who in February described the death of former minister Chérubin Okende as a suicide, recently forked out $910,000 for property in the Belgian capital.
Article published on 21/11/24
Russia has just got the go-ahead from the Gnassingbé government to open an embassy on its soil next year, marking a further phase in the rapprochement between the two countries.
The Nigerian cocoa market, which is made up of small-scale producers and is largely deregulated, fears the impact of the European legislation on its exports. The industry is trying to rally support for its cause.
In 2023, ABCI Investments was awarded only modest compensation for the 1989 expropriation of its Banque Franco-Tunisienne.
Nigeria, Djibouti and South Africa are among 12 countries to have called for continued collaboration between UNESCO and the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. The re-election of Donald Trump in the US has raised doubts over the organisation’s future.
Intrigues big and small – every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.
The president’s new chief of staff may lack political clout, but he has a strong business background and enjoys support from powerful government figures. During Tshisekedi’s first term, the leadership of his private office was deemed erratic, and he is keen to buck that trend.
The decision to end the export ban on Central African diamonds taken at the Kimberley Process general assembly met with strong opposition from the EU, Canada, the UK and the US.
The promotion of Stev Onanga to presidential adviser, at a time of tension with his immediate boss, is a fresh indication of the head of state’s capacity to exploit internal strife as a means of exercising his authority.
The Italian major has won a three-year legal battle to not have its Sankofa field unitised with that of the Ghanaian junior, which now has to pay for the former’s US legal fees before the case can be closed.
The new military coordination body, which is modelled on the United States Africa Command, is working to reorganise France’s presence on the continent. In addition to preserving military outposts in West and Central Africa, the project entails closer cooperation with a handful of other African states, some of which are English-speaking.
African governments have been slow in releasing the funds promised for the future African hydrocarbon bank. The project, led by Nigeria’s Omar Farouk Ibrahim, is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2025, but only a portion of the financing it needs has been raised.
As they attempt to recapture Khartoum from the RSF, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s SAF is increasing its PR campaigns, hiring a bevvy of lobbyists in Washington.
The ousting last month of his deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, threatened the Kenyan president’s standing in the centre of the country. Now he wants to show he’s listening to growers of a leading export earner irked by recent sector reforms.
The Ethiopian PM has appointed the former Addis Ababa mayor and minister of mines, whom he dismissed last year, to revitalize the struggling railway. An early supporter of Abiy, Takele has surrounded himself with loyalists, which risks raising some hackles.
The Belgian businessman, who specialises in refining and exporting gold from the Great Lakes region, claims Rwanda owes him tens of millions of dollars in compensation. At the same time, he is battling to persuade the US and EU to lift their sanctions on him.
The future of the East African Community and regional insecurity topped the agenda of a recent tete-a-tete between Kenya President William Ruto and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
The Kremlin is using a Russian nationalist organisation, the Double-Headed Eagle Society, to woo South Africa’s white supremacists. Its goal is to discreetly exert pressure on the majority party, the ANC, a long-standing ally of Moscow.
The International Monetary Fund believes that Christian Ntsay’s government has not met the commitments it promised, particularly with regard to setting up a mechanism to adjust prices at petrol pumps, and so could miss out on millions of dollars.
Laborinho was dismissed in early November officially because of his handling of the issue of fuel smuggling to the DRC. He had, however, made no bones of his ambitions to run in Angola’s 2027 presidential election.
Libya’s state oil company owes almost $42m to the fuel trader, which is taking legal action in the UK. The Libyan financial watchdog has meanwhile referred the case to the public prosecutor.
The Moroccan prime minister is carrying out a major reorganisation of his cabinet and has just appointed a new secretary general.
Trading, exploration and production, renewable energy and mining… The Franco-Algerian businessman has a wide-ranging portfolio, which has brought him success to date in Algeria, West Africa and, most recently, Europe.
Via their lobbying agency Linkers, Myriam Abikzer and Driss Benhima are coaching Azura, the kingdom’s leading tomato company, which has come under fire from the European Union over its labour costs and questionable environmental practices.
Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.
Israeli ambassador Rony Yedidia Clein recently moved her offices in Abidjan to the Sofitel Ivoire hotel for security reasons.
In view of a $2.87bn deal signed with the IMF, the Congolese government has pledged to audit the massive sums poured into the war effort in the east of the country.
CAR finance minister Hervé Ndoba is counting on international aid to wrap up his 2025 budget but finds himself at odds with the powerful energy minister Arthur Bertrand Piri.
It is in advanced talks to sell Énergie Rurale Africaine.
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