Xi Jinping’s new Africa man | Kenyatta-Odinga entente frays over referendum | Sangomar: Woodside foils Lukoil's plans

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15% OFF your subscription until 28/08/2020 SUBSCRIBE Daily issue Tuesday 25 August 2020 SPOTLIGHT  AFRICA   CHINA    Xi Jinping sends new top Africa man Wu Peng to front line     Low profile diplomat Wu Peng, who has had charge of Chinese policy in Africa since the end of June, has had to hurriedly organise China's counter-attack to Taiwan's diplomatic breakthrough in Somaliland.  [...] CENTRAL AND WEST AFRICA  GABON   POLITICS    Minister Frank Nguema's business partners hotly dispute his handling of TV+   Joseph Atomo, the co-shareholder of TV+ Gabon alongside Sports Minister Frank Nguema, filed a complaint at the end of July against his partner (and cousin) for "breach of trust". He accuses Nguema of billing the channel's advertisers through a personal company.  [...]      GAMBIA   POLITICS    WAPP determined to build solar power park   The Economic Community of West African States is wanting to structure an ambitious 150-MW solar power project in Gambia in order to export excess output to other members of the bloc as part of its efforts to create a single power market.  [...]      IVORY COAST   POLITICS    Presidential elections: the spin doctors stirring a media war   With just three months to go to the elections, a bevy of communications firms are busying themselves around the candidates.  [...] EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA  KENYA   POLITICS    Constitutional referendum: Kenyatta-Odinga sacred union begins to fray   Behind Raila Odinga's flurry of attacks on President Uhuru Kenyatta lies a row over the constitutional referendum calendar.  [...]  UNITED STATES   KENYA   DIPLOMACY    Pentagon trains Kenya's special forces to fight Al-Shabaab NORTH AFRICA  ALGERIA   BUSINESS    Senator-businessman Khaled Boudjabeur provides security for new phosphates rail line   Security company El Amine Gard, which is owned by the Tebessa senator, is to protect the Infrarail base in the city in charge of the project.  [...] OIL & GAS  SENEGAL   CORPORATE STRATEGY    Struggling in Equatorial Guinea, Lukoil foiled over Sangomar by Woodside   The cut-price acquisition of Senegal's Sangomar field by Lukoil, a firm run by a close associate of Vladimir Putin, has been derailed.  [...] MINING SECTOR  MOZAMBIQUE   FINANCING AND ADVISORY    Blue-blooded couple help Intra Energy branch into Cabo Delgado gold   Faced with difficulties in Tanzania, where it is the largest coal producer, Australia's Intra Energy wants to diversify its activities by getting a makeover in Mozambican gold. A couple of European aristocrats with a robust local network helped steer its path.  [...]    FREE       TANZANIA   FINANCING AND ADVISORY    Mining arbitration: litigation funds threaten Magufuli regime   After months of threatening to file arbitration against the Tanzanian state for cancelling their mining permits, three firms should now be able to take action thanks to litigation financial backers.  [...] RUNNING STORY  WEST AFRICA     NORTH AFRICA     TURKEY     POLITICS       Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa   Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in West and North Africa. To achieve its goals, the Turkish government is counting on the assistance of its religious networks. [...] Read this running story Discover our subscription offers

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