: Alongside 17 heads of states, the chairperson of the African Union Commission is also expected to attend the event, which Vladimir Putin is hosting on 28 and 29
: KENYA | The crackdown on illicit alcohol is emerging as a prominent issue in political debate ahead of the general election. The president’s camp wants to take up opposition figure Rigathi Gachagua’s
: T he announcement is expected at the next congress of the National Rally (Rassemblement National), scheduled for 24-25 October in Orléans. As Marine Le Pen's campaign team has made a series of appointments in recent weeks, responsibility for international affairs is set to pass to the party's vice president, Louis Aliot. By entrusting the portfolio to one of her closest allies, Le Pen aims to exert tighter control over an
: Following several delays and a rescheduled timeline put in place in September, ExxonMobil – the operator of Rovuma LNG (18.6m tonnes of liquefied natural gas, LNG, per year) – is finally preparing to reach its Final Investment Decision (FID). Valued
: The transport minister has announced the lifting of the suspension of the technical assistance contract between the state-controlled railway company and Vecturis, a Belgian firm specialising in the management of rail
: Kassoum Traoré, acting director-general of the port of Abidjan, has tasked his team with assessing whether Abidjan Terminal and Côte d’Ivoire Terminal can be merged to streamline and improve their
: There is palpable unease in Djibouti City. For several weeks, the capital has known it is in the sights of Yemeni intelligence services. Their chief concern is Djibouti's murky role in supply networks serving Yemen's Houthi rebels. One company in
: Over the years, Tahir Hamid Nguilin has established himself as one of President Mahamat Idriss Déby's key figures. Appointed minister of finance in 2019 by the president's father, Idriss Déby, this trained central banker navigated the transition period following the marshal's death in 2021 without losing ground. Quite to the contrary in fact, as each cabinet reshuffle has provided an opportunity to strengthen his grip on power. In 2024, Nguilin
: The ANP Algerian army's Sukhoi Su-30s made a strong impression in Niamey. They were sent to Niger in late August to support General Abdourahamane Tchiani, who had been targeted in an attempted coup (AI, 02/09/26). Algiers has however also carried
: No launch date has been announced, with the project now significantly behind schedule. The organisation has been at a near standstill for several years
: Mmakgoshi Lekhethe, the first woman to hold the post of CEO of the state-owned Industrial Development Corp – a role to which she was appointed in December 2024 – is now in Parks Tau’s
: The French embassy in Abidjan, headed by Jean-Christophe Belliard, has just sent out invitations to nearly 450 political leaders and figures from the security
: Dissent is rare in the hushed world of the BGFIBank group. But a clash in 2026 between shareholders shook the upper echelons of the Gabon-based financial institution, where discretion is the
: The Paris Judicial Court has upheld a garnishment order issued by CFS 37 Funding against the French company NYS, following the case between the State and Projet Pilote
: The Tanzanian prime minister spent five days in the UK in early October promoting investment in his country, but did not manage to secure a meeting with a representative of the British
: Wenfeng’s local executives, who have been in dispute with the head of Guinea International Corp for several months, say they want to participate in the other proceedings brought against the
: President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are still awaiting replies from five more leaders across the continent but 17 heads of state have confirmed that they will be attending the third Russia-Africa Summit, to be held in
: Claiming that it has received no payment from South Sudan more than 60 days after the court’s ruling, QNB’s lawyers are asking the Washington court to register the judgment nationwide in the United
: The former Egyptian ambassador to Brazil, Wael Aboulmagd, is one of two candidates in the running to head the International Renewable Energy Agency, a UN organisation based in Abu
: At the request of Cyril Ramaphosa's administration, the public development agency Industrial Development Corp (IDC), headed by Mmakgoshi Lekhethe, has