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QatarEnergy boss Saad Sherida al-Kaabi has decided not to invest in Nigeria, despite a visit by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu aimed at reinvigorating his country's oil and gas sector.
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The Botswana Defence Force is in talks with India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited with a view to acquiring several of its LCA Tejas fighter planes.
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NIGERIA | US lobbying firm Moran Global Strategies, which has been representing the Biafra Republic Government in Exile since June, is using attacks on Christians in Nigeria as an argument in favour of independence for the country’s Biafran region.
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📣 Ethiopia's civil war is prompting growing unease among ambassadors stationed in Addis Ababa, where the
#AU
is headquartered. The pan-African organisation has discreetly told its staff it’s time to leave.
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📣 Moroccan officials have been instructed not to receive French ambassador Christophe Lecourtier. Several ministers and representatives of the kingdom have cancelled him in recent weeks, as ties grow frostier between Rabat and Paris.
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ETHIOPIA | Abiy Ahmed’s government has been hit with a wave of defections in the Amhara region, to which it has responded with a political and security purge.
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📣
#DRC
: Though
@moise_katumbi
's US lobbyists in Washington have been actively seeking to undermine relations between the Biden and
#Tshisekedi
administrations, the
#US
remain staunchly behind the Congolese leader.
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One of two frigates recently bought by
#Algeria
put in a poor show when supposedly on joint manoeuvres in the French port of Toulon earlier this month: its missiles were out of order thanks to lack of maintenance.
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Tension is rising between Brussels and Addis Ababa. In the midst of intense dialogue, the
#EU
's new special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Annette Weber (
@EUSR_Weber
), is still waiting to meet with the Ethiopian autoritites.
#Ethiopia
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DRC | Turkish armoured vehicle manufacturer Katmerciler has finalised a contract worth tens of millions of dollars with Kinshasa that had been stalled since 2020.
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According to UN experts, Rwanda is understood to have strengthened its military presence in DRC, where its troops have largely supplanted M23's combatants. Uganda has come under fire on the strength of documented proof of its support for the rebellion.
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Somaliland, long seen as a beacon of stability in a troubled region, is facing increasing disorder as fighting continues between the breakaway province’s army and militias loyal to Somalia and backed by al-Shabaab fighters.
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[REVELATIONS - 1/5] Tehran has been negotiating with the Niger junta since late 2023 on a deal to deliver 300 tonnes of uranium concentrate. In return for the uranium, Iran will allegedly supply Niamey with tactical drones and Manpads.
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#Kenya
's new president William Ruto has secretly decided to put an end to the monopoly enjoyed by Autoport Freight Terminals Ltd, a company owned by Ali Hassan Joho.
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In eastern DRC, the rise of a Banyamulenge armed group, the Twigwaneho, has sparked concern among Congolese security services and the FBI. They suspect that their war effort is being financed from the US.
@Africa_In_EN
investigated ⬇️
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🔴 A new damning UN report has established Kigali's continued direct involvement with DR Congo's M23 rebels, despite condemnations from Western governments.
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Our journalist Antoine Galindo was arrested on Thursday 22 February in Ethiopia and remains detained. We are outraged by his unjustified arrest, a serious attack on press freedom, and call for his urgent release.
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After nearly 40 years of reporting, Africa Intelligence becomes a daily publication to better reflect the fast and complex developments taking place on the continent. This change saw a joining of the site's five long-standing newsletters! Find out more:
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📣 The restructuring of the
#Nigeria
oil administration has brought back leading figures from the Goodluck Johnathan era (
@GEJonathan
).
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Although officially denied by Kinshasa, the coalition between the DRC's military and various armed groups against the M23 rebels has, however, been well documented by the Rwandan intelligence services (NISS) ⬇️
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The controversial meeting between Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush and her Israeli counterpart was intended to be a preamble to an encounter between Libyan and Israeli Prime Ministers Abdelhamid Dabaiba and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Bayraktar-TB2 armed drones that Morocco will receive will be equipped with Canadian-made Wescam LX-15 optronics, despite Ottawa's decision to ban the sale of such equipment to Turkish manufacturer
@baykarmakina
.
#Morocco
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Despite his victory in the polls, William Ruto remains concerned about the financial and symbolic weight that the heirs of Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi carry. The Kenyan president is pulling out all the stops to make his rivals, who he sees as a political threat, bend. ⬇️
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The Gupta brothers are not actually in custody in the UAE and have used their South African passports to travel and do business. They were last spotted in Switzerland.
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@PaulKagame
and his teams had to battle right up to the line to ensure that Kigali will serve as the headquarters for the new African Union body. The support of
#Morocco
was key to the victory of
#Rwanda
.
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🔔
#Congo
Oil trader Lucien Ebata was detained this morning (6 October) at Paris's Le Bourget airport in possession of a large quantity of cash.
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🔔UN Secretary-General António Guterres will arrive in Addis Ababa on 28 November for a short visit. In
#Ethiopia
he'll meet PM Abiy Ahmed Ali following a peace agreement by the Ethiopian govt signed 2 November
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In Brazil, Lula da Silva's victory heralds an economic and diplomatic rapprochement between Brasilia and African capitals. For Brazilian bosses, the return of
@LulaOficial
heralds the resumption of the African campaign that was halted in 2016. We break it down here ⬇️
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#Libya
A specialist in aerial surveillance missions, the Franco-Luxembourg firm CAE Aviation is once again active in the Libyan theatre of operations, two years after providing support for the military offensives of Khalifa Haftar
#intelligence
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Global battery giants have been battling for stakes in lithium projects under development in
#Zimbabwe
and
#Mali
. Now they've set their sights on one by
@AtlanticLithium
in
#Ghana
. The UK firm hired consultants to help scrutinise the offers it's getting.
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#Uganda
@Jervois_Mining
's management is quietly working to win round key Ugandan private and public actors with the hope this will help it win a licence for the country's flagship project: the reboot of the
#Kilembe
#copper
mine.
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KENYA | Skating on thin ice… Africa Intelligence understands that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was informed last month of a growing risk of impeachment proceedings being brought against him.
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In early July, the British House of Commons voted on first reading in favour of a bill officially recognising Somaliland's independence. To get approval on second reading, however, its supporters will have to work hard to win over the British government.
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The first CH-4 combat drone system has just been delivered to the DRC by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. This equipment is intended to strengthen the FARDC's capabilities in the war against the M23.
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📣 Kinshasa needs an edge over the M23 rebels and hopes Chinese drones in the sky and French Foreign Legion-led Romanian soldiers on the ground will help tilt the balance of power
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Tensions are rising between Djibouti and Somaliland, whose leaders have accused each other of destabilisation. Djibouti denies any ill intent towards its neighbour, but is having trouble digesting a deal Somaliland signed with Ethiopia in January.
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📣In recent weeks, Joseph Kabila has been sending messengers to different African presidencies to relay his forecasts of forthcoming chaos in the DRC. Western diplomats, concerned by his predictions, have been in contact with him.
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👥 Macky Sall (
@Macky_Sall
) pays great attention to his public image, which is handled by a small group of advisers currently trying to restore his reputation after it took a heavy knock in the violent demonstrations of March.
#Senegal
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Tensions between
#Kenya
and
#Somalia
have prompted the Kenya Air Force to bolster Nairobi's military deployment on the north-eastern border, as its aircraft will still patrol Somalian skies to support the Kenyan contingents within
@amisomsomalia
.
#defence
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[THREAD]
#DRC
: How does Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, targeted by US sanctions, maintain ties with President Felix Tshisekedi? Today, Africa Intelligence reveals the role of a very special middleman at the heart of this reconciliation... 1/6🧵
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NIGER | The military junta has cashed in $400m from China’s CNPC without resuming oil exports to Benin.
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#Uganda
Advised by the children of
@KagutaMuseveni
, the
@KagutaFdn
is very active in trumpeting the president’s track record and is focusing on two issues on social media: east African integration and the revival of inter-generational dialogue.
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Turkey's Baykar (
@Baykar_Savunma
), which has close links with Erdogan (
@RTErdogan
), is to supply attack drones to the Moroccan army.
#Algeria
#Morocco
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📣 Africa Intelligence lifts the veil on private security companies currently operating in the eastern DRC city of Goma under the leadership of a French businessman and a former member of France's Foreign Legion.
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#Somaliland
's defence minister Abdiqani Mohamoud Aateye and the head the Somaliland National Armed Forces
@NuhTaani
have brought in UK consultancy
@AdamSmithInt
to help steer the overhaul of its defence services
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#Morocco
: Mohammed VI’s army is about to place a second order for armed Bayraktar
#TB2
drones manufactured by Turkey’s Baykar as tensions mount with
#WesternSahara
and neighbouring
#Algeria
. Other suppliers are being solicited too.
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Following the breakdown of diplomatic relations with
#Algeria
, Rabat has asked for
#SaudiArabia
's help in representing its interests with its neighbour. The Saudi Crown Prince is also keen to mediate between the two countries.
#Morocco
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SUDAN | After years out of the public eye, Al-Gony Hamdan Dagalo has made his return. The ultra-powerful General M. Hamdan Dagalo's youngest brother is now one of the rising figures of the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces' backchannel diplomacy.
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Rwandan army officers have made a number of trips to the northern Mozambican gas-producing province. They are looking into how they might intervene against the violent armed groups operating there.
#Mozambique
#CaboDelgado
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In this week's 'in focus' piece, we reveal how Kyiv is going behind Moscow's back to arm itself in Sudan. 1/6 🧵
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📣
#China
allows African countries where it has auto assembly plants to market vehicles wholly made from Chinese components as nationally manufactured.
#Madagascar
#Uganda
#Gabon
#Nigeria
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Northern Rangelands Trust's project in Kenya was presented as a model of environmental and community protection. But it is now under fire from its donors and firms such as Netflix and Meta which buy its carbon offsets.
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Egypt is proving to be the biggest, but not only, obstacle to the UNSMIL boss Abdoulaye Bathily’s plans for a high-level panel to enable the holding of elections in Libya this year.
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But in the face of Ruto's public attacks and manoeuvring, the opposition is rallying itself. Find out more in this week's investigative report by
@nmchl
:
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#Kenya
: the president has been exploiting the closure of the
#Dadaab
and
#Kakuma
refugee camps to political ends to put pressure on the Somalian leader
@M_Farmaajo
.
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The EU provided financial aid to Rwandan forces in Cabo Delgado last year, and is now planning to help troops from southern African nations deployed in the troubled Mozambican province.
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The Turkish defence industry is upping the pace in
#Nigeria
, where negotiations with the high command of the Nigerian Air Force under Air Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao are in full flow.
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The French armed forces are keen to be involved in the creation of a light aviation unit within the
@HQNigerianArmy
. There is a chance that
@Airbus
will supply helicopters. Competition from Turkey's TAI (
@TUSAS_EN
) and Italy's
@Leonardo_live
remains tough.
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#Algeria
Once at odds over a big IT contract, state-controlled oil giant
@sonatrach_dz
and CNPC subsidairy
@Richfit_Canada
have put their differences behind them and are teaming up once again.
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NIGER | China National Petroleum Corp's fears have proved to be founded; General Abdourahamane Tchiani's government has awarded the Bilma block to the Société nigérienne du pétrole, representing a major challenge for the state-owned company.
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KENYA | An Iranian scandal could pose a risk to the Kenyan economy. The Iranian Debsh Tea Company—and Kenya's main buyer of tea—is accused of having embezzled nearly 1.4 billion dollars and lied about the origin of its tea leaves.
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Kidnapping has become an industry in northwestern Nigeria. The gangs at work have prospered and modernised, with local politicians, military and jihadists all involved behind the scenes. The activity is damaging the local economy, but the state is struggling to tackle the issue⬇️
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SENEGAL | Who will become head of communications in Bassirou Diomaye Faye's cabinet? The position has plenty of takers. While key figures from the presidential party are well positioned, they are up against media professionals from civil society.
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Central to Algerian diplomatic strategy, the negotiations around the Mali peace deal known as APR have been entrusted to a general close to President Tebboune, helping to bury Ramtane Lamamra's recent defeat. A thread 🧵
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NIGERIA | The president's son Seyi Tinubu was recently appointed director of a subsidiary of Chagoury Group, marking another step in the return to favour of its Lebanese-Nigerian owner.
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SUDAN | The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), after sustaining losses inflicted by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, have sought reinforcement from paramilitary forces with ties to the former Omar al-Bashir regime ⬇️
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Read our weekly investigative feature to find out more about the MPA's operations, all the way from the US to the South Kivu highlands:
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ETHIOPIA | The main reason behind Frehiwot Tamiru's meteoric rise? Without a doubt her unshakeable loyalty to the prime minister. Indeed, the Ethio Telecom CEO has worked alongside Abiy Ahmed since the start of his time in office.
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UGANDA | Senior government officials are accused of having deliberately taken part in violent acts against members of the opposition in new testimony laid before the International Criminal Court by opposition leader Bobi Wine.
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[THREAD] Ever since Félix Tshisekedi took power, Washington had hoped he would curb
#China
's huge influence in the country. Four years later, the United States is bitterly disappointed… 1/6
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A few weeks ago, a handful of Western diplomats were given two NISS reports that documented the interactions between senior FARDC officers and FDLR leaders. These reports show in detail Kigali's explanation of the ongoing crisis in eastern DRC 2/7
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📣 Felix Tshisekedi is carrying out a radical reorganisation of the Congolese mining sector via an unprecedented partnership with the United Arab Emirates., which could lead to the sale of 10 or more mining permits.
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#Nigeria
’s land army and the Nigerian Air Force (
@NigAirForce
) have simultaneously announced their intention of procuring helicopters to meet their respective needs.
#defence
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TUNISIA | Bell, Airbus, or Leonardo… Which company will be the one to supply a dozen new helicopters to the Tunisian air force? The project—already postponed several times—has been placed back on the table by defence minister Imed Memmich.
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(🎁 Try our free article) The renovation of the train line linking Zambia to Tanzania, built by China in the 1970s, has been back on the agenda since Samia Suluhu Hassan came to power - and Beijing is pushing for a new contract to be awarded.
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👥The number of Indian embassies in Africa has grown in the past five years from 29 in 2018 to 47 this year. We break down how that has panned out, region by region. ⬇️
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Africa Intelligence has come to understand that in mid-October .
@ENGIEgroup
gave formal notice to the
#Kenya
Electricity Generating Co (
@KenGenKenya
) that it was pulling out of the race for the 140 MW Olkaria VI project.
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By stopping the sale of 12 urgently needed attack helicopters to
#Nigeria
, the US has inadvertently boosted Nigerian-Russian military cooperation.
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Originally created by Mohammed VI’s brother to manufacture Boeing 787 spare parts, TDM Aerospace has developed more global ambitions.
#Morocco
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NIGERIA | Turkish defence firms Asisguard, Havelsan and Nurol Makina have finalised a deal with the outgoing government for the supply of drones, armoured vehicles and electronic systems which will be used to secure the dangerous Abuja-Kaduna road.
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DRC - The reorganisation of the forestry sector, after decades without regulation, has been met with resistance from industry giants and local leaders. The country's international partners are starting to doubt the environment minister's ability to make good on her reform ⬇️
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