The current US ambassador in Yaoundé, Christopher Lamora, is soon to take up his post in Bangui (AI, 28/05/24), and is to be replaced by Elizabeth Moore Aubin. She has been US ambassador in Algiers ...

Okba Haftar, son of Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the dominant figure in eastern Libya, wants to position himself as a leading name in cyber security and digital ...

Faced with chronic fuel shortages, Lusaka has just revived long-dormant pipeline projects extending towards both coasts of the continent. While the desire to diversify supply seems justified, these ...

The presidential party's plans for the selection of candidates in the upcoming elections are gathering pace in the face of growing opposition. Amid mistrust from the grassroots and post-election ...

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As the French president closes the Africa-France summit in Kenya, he and his team are already working on his next major trip to the continent – a journey that may well be the last of his two terms in ...

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By early October, the presidential office had already initiated mass reporting of accounts deemed particularly virulent, without any account closures taking place. This situation has irritated the ...

Aside from its mining sector, the African gold industry is struggling to develop in areas such as refining, trading, institutional gold purchasing and jewellery. In order to change this situation, a ...

Lieutenant General Franck Ntumba, who heads the military affairs unit in the president's office, placed an initial order for nine UAVs and a pilot station (AI, 21/02/23). The Congolese treasury has ...

Werede was not in charge of mining issues in Reda's temporary administration. But this one-time hero of the Tigray struggle, who commanded the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) that opposed the army during ...