A former first-term White House and Department of Energy adviser, the ex-US Special Forces officer now heads private critical minerals firm GreenMet. Working on the frontier of politics and business, he is taking his first trip to Nigeria, where he will launch an extractive and industrial project.
After ceasing the operations of its local branches in Nigeria and Ivory Coast, the French flagship firm in the defence electronics sector has decided to quietly close its Senegalese office, which coordinated its activities in the region.
Kenya Wine Agencies had filed an appeal with the competition authority to suspend the transaction between East African Breweries and the Japanese beverage giant announced in December 2025, but to no avail.
The Moroccan bank is set to sign a cooperation protocol with the main eurozone market at the end of June concerning the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Morocco’s flagship research institution has appointed the new head of its French branch, the first to open abroad in 2024.
Jean-Marc Châtaigner is expected to be replaced in the coming weeks, after three years in the role.
France’s diplomatic body has put the finishing touches on its list of appointees to chancelleries in Dakar, Maputo and Dodoma. Still, a handful of key posts have yet to be filled.
Intrigues big and small: every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.
The €15m pledged by the European Union is set to be unlocked, with the disbursement conditional on Cameroon making progress in the fight against Russia’s shadow fleet.
The second edition of the Cameroon-EU economic stakeholders gathering, to be held in Yaoundé on 16 and 17 June, will focus on the country’s energy sector, as investors, lenders and public officials examine the sensitive Nachtigal dam dossier and the future of Socadel, the entity set to replace Eneo.
Introduced into the upper echelons of power by Louis-Paul Motaze, the man at the helm of Innovendi Data Technologies has emerged as a discreet yet influential operator straddling Yaoundé and Kinshasa. He has become a pivotal figure in financing port infrastructure and logistics projects.
France’s newly created prosecutor’s office for tackling organised crime has opened a judicial investigation into an alleged money laundering network suspected of channelling funds into Russian financial systems, in a case that echoes the arrest of a suspected Nigerian drug trafficker in Switzerland.
The head of the Rapid Support Forces has just appointed a new security and defence council within the Tasis coalition. In the long term, he has to organise an army opposed to that of Port Sudan.
Although financial deadlines are set for June, the French oil giant has been unable to restore a climate of trust with the Mozambican head of state, who is himself having to navigate between political factions.
Appointed foreign affairs minister in June 2024, he has since been handed some of Pretoria’s most sensitive missions, including his country’s G20 presidency and a bruising diplomatic row with the United States. He has relied on a tight circle of loyal officials to navigate the turbulence.
The president of the Royal Moroccan Mixed Martial Arts Federation, Hamza el-Harchali, has managed to secure the organisation of an MMA event in the coming months in the kingdom.
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