Hamdok's Gulf lenders play hardball | Putin preps Cairo visit | EU without permanent security in Tripoli

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Daily issue Thursday 27 May 2021 SPOTLIGHT  SUDAN _ _   Hamdok's difficult debt relief conversation with the Gulf     Germany and France may be happy to write off virtually all of Sudan's debts, but the Gulf states are asking for something in return before they will renegotiate.  [...] CENTRAL AND WEST AFRICA  NIGER _ _   Bazoum eyeing consultants to help renegotiate sovereign debt   After attending the Paris summit on African economies, Niger's new President Mohamed Bazoum is considering hiring a legal and financial advisory team to help him meet his country's financial obligations.  [...]      IVORY COAST _ _   Gbabgo to return to Abidjan in June but without a public welcome   Following long negotiations, Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara 's negotiators have finally reached an agreement which will allow the former president to return to Ivory Coast next month... in undercover mode.  [...]  WEST AFRICA _ _   ECOWAS finally moves forward with Praia-Dakar-Abidjan corridor project EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA  SOUTH AFRICA _ _   Johann Rupert takes advice from an archbishop and a banker on his Covid-19 business support fund   South African businessman Johann Rupert has recruited several advisers to help him distribute the funds he is providing for small companies suffering from the effects of the Covid lockdowns. One of them is Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, who also advises the Oppenheimer family on its coronavirus business support fund.  [...]      KENYA _ _   Ministers battle over Ethiopian border county   Kenyan interior secretary Fred Matiang'i wants to limit the flow of Ethiopian migrants through Marsabit. But he is hampered by his Treasury counterpart Ukur Yatani, who is in conflict with the current governor of the border county.  [...]      RWANDA _ _  FRANCE _ _   Tidjane Thiam joins Macron's Kigali delegation   The former CEO of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam, is part of the official delegation accompanying President Emmanuel Macron to Kigali on 27 May, alongside a few ministers and hand-picked business leaders.  [...] NORTH AFRICA  LIBYA _ _   EU delegation returns to Tripoli with no permanent security provider   The European Union has not yet picked a company to provide security for its representation in Libya over the long term. It has however awarded temporary contracts to the French company GEOS, the Maltese firm Sentinel Atlas and Septimius Security, an Irish-Libyan outfit.  [...]  LIBYA _ _   Expertise France resumes service in Libya and tends to its local networks      RUSSIA _ _  EGYPT _ _   Vladimir Putin due in Cairo OIL & GAS  NIGERIA _ _   UTM Offshore to launch Nigeria's first FLNG venture with backing of DPR and ExxonMobil   Following the lead of Cameroon and Mozambique, Nigeria is finally moving into floating liquefied natural gas technology. An extremely well-connected businessman in the Niger Delta, Julius Rone, is orchestrating proceedings.  [...]      GHANA _ _   Still no shotgun wedding in sight for ENI and Springfield   More than a year after authorities in Ghana ordered the unitisation of ENI's Sankofa and Springfield's Afina fields, the process is at a standstill.  [...] MINING SECTOR  MOZAMBIQUE _ _   Pathfinder sends out warning to Africa Great Wall directors over heavy minerals permit   Having battled in the courts since 2011 to recover a mining licence that it claims was expropriated by retired FRELIMO general Jacinto Veloso, the British firm Pathfinder Minerals now has to take on a new adversary: China's TZM Resources.  [...]  UNITED STATES _ _  DRC _ _  LIBYA _ _   Washington wraps up criminal action against Och-Ziff over Dan Gertler transaction Discover our subscription offers

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