The Military Intelligence Corps (MIC), a Kenyan intelligence agency which advises the President and the military chief of staff on issues of national security, has a new director. He is general ...

The investigation that opened last November (see our exclusive report, Africa Intelligence,23/11/20) into the loss-making sale of 5m tonnes of Nigerien uranium by France's Areva group (now Orano) in ...

Discussions on Somalia between the African Union and Qatar are coming aground. Working over the last few weeks to bring backers together to discuss the financing of AUSSOM, the AU's new peace-keeping ...

French diplomats expect Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo to lead the delegation at the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), which will be held in Nice, France, ...

On 4 June, after two years of legal proceedings, the Paris Court of Appeal once again rejected the attempt by companies Jeune Afrique Media Group and Africa Media Group to have Indigo Publications, ...

The surprise partnership between Emirati operator Taqa and the royal company Nareva has redrawn the map for energy players in Morocco, without however overshadowing the deal agreed a few months ...

The Franco-Malagasy mixed commission will meet for the second time in Paris on 30 June, six years after the first meeting in Antananarivo. The committee is charged with adjudicating on the handing ...

At the end of May, Société du Patrimoine Minier du Niger (Sopamin) won its arbitration case against British trader Curzon Uranium at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Geneva (AI, 27/11/24 ...

Cocoa giants Cargill, Olam, Sucden, Barry Callebaut and Touton, ranked among the ten largest exporters of Ivorian beans, are under pressure from their chocolate manufacturer customers. Because of the ...

A handful of French military veterans gave training to around 20 Senegalese officers in November. The officers who received the training are active in a range of services, from the gendarmerie to ...

Angola ENI Block 15/06: Lourenço bends over backwards for oil majors The Italian major ENI has every reason to be delighted. Already galvanised by the good results in February from its Agogo-3 ...

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