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Premium badgeDRC: Broken submarine cables disrupt West African internet speed

It could take a month for the Orange Marine team to start repairs on fibre optic lines damaged during underwater landslide off the DRC coast.

Capacity building and PPPs are a strong part of EDF’s Africa strategy. (REUTERS/Charles Platiau)

power on

Premium badgeEDF Africa chief: ‘Subsidising electricity for everyone does the economy a disservice’ Valérie Levkov, EDF’s vice president for Africa, the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, speaks about the challenges facing the continent and t...
© Malian singer Salif Keïta, in Vincennes, France. (Paul Charbit/Gamma Rapho)

Political melody

Premium badgeMali: Musician Salif Keïta named special adviser to Assimi Goïta The Malian star, who has supported the junta since the 2020 coup, has publicly expressed support for the authorities’ demands for sovereignty.
A border crossing between Liberia and Sierra Leone. (Reuters/James Giahyue)

wrong move?

Premium badgeLiberia extradites Sierra Leone’s purported coup leader, as presidential candidate cries foul Critics accuse the George Weah government of violating international conventions by responding to Freetown’s extradition request for ex-police chief M...

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© Cross-section of an undersea communications cable (3D illustration). Christoph Burgstedt/Getty Images

Deep cut

Premium badgeDRC: Broken submarine cables disrupt West African internet speed It could take a month for the Orange Marine team to start repairs on fibre optic lines damaged during underwater landslide off the DRC coast.
Capacity building and PPPs are a strong part of EDF’s Africa strategy. (REUTERS/Charles Platiau)

power on

Premium badgeEDF Africa chief: ‘Subsidising electricity for everyone does the economy a disservice’ Valérie Levkov, EDF’s vice president for Africa, the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, speaks about the challenges facing the continent and t...
© Malian singer Salif Keïta, in Vincennes, France. (Paul Charbit/Gamma Rapho)

Political melody

Premium badgeMali: Musician Salif Keïta named special adviser to Assimi Goïta The Malian star, who has supported the junta since the 2020 coup, has publicly expressed support for the authorities’ demands for sovereignty.

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© Cross-section of an undersea communications cable (3D illustration). Christoph Burgstedt/Getty Images

Deep cut

Premium badgeDRC: Broken submarine cables disrupt West African internet speed It could take a month for the Orange Marine team to start repairs on fibre optic lines damaged during underwater landslide off the DRC coast.
Capacity building and PPPs are a strong part of EDF’s Africa strategy. (REUTERS/Charles Platiau)

power on

Premium badgeEDF Africa chief: ‘Subsidising electricity for everyone does the economy a disservice’ Valérie Levkov, EDF’s vice president for Africa, the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, speaks about the challenges facing the continent and t...
© Malian singer Salif Keïta, in Vincennes, France. (Paul Charbit/Gamma Rapho)

Political melody

Premium badgeMali: Musician Salif Keïta named special adviser to Assimi Goïta The Malian star, who has supported the junta since the 2020 coup, has publicly expressed support for the authorities’ demands for sovereignty.

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Guinea’s interim president, Mamadi Doumbouya. (AFP/John Wessels)

middle man

Premium badgeNiger coup: Guinea’s Doumbouya will not be swayed Though he is part of what is now a quartet of unelected leaders in West Africa, Guinea’s interim president Mamady Doumbouya is his own man and is taki...
© Construction of a 1,200-metre breakwater off the coast of Senegal and Mauritania as part of the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim gas project. (Eiffage)

oil postponed

Premium badgeDelays continue in Senegal’s oil and gas sector After Sangomar, the start of production at the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim has also been postponed until 2024, despite Dakar’s reliance on fossil fuels to bo...
Felicien Kabuga’s ‘Wanted’ posters as shown during a 2002 press conference by Pierre-Richard Prosper, then US Ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues. (REUTERS/George Mulala)

justice lost

Premium badgeRwanda genocide: Kabuga’s trial abandoned due to health issues After evading capture for 23 years, Felicien Kabuga was set to face trial before the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
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bloody attacks

Premium badgeThe Lieutenants of Malian jihadist leader Iyad Ag Ghali, ‘public enemy number one’ In the war he is waging in the Sahel, the head of the JNIM has secured the loyalty of an enigmatic inner circle.
Workers are seen at a production line of copper foils used for lithium batteries, at a Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group plant © Copper being used for lithium batteries, at in Tongling, Anhui province, China November 30, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer

Copper Bottomed

Premium badgeNamibia: Deep-South Resources regains Haib licence after ‘corruption’ dispute Canada’s Deep-South Resources is pushing ahead with developing its Haib copper project in Namibia after the country’s courts ruled in its favour in a ...
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domestic debt

Cameroon suffers another downgrade, this time by Standard and Poor’s The world’s leading credit rating agency has downgraded Cameroon’s sovereign rating by six points, a steeper downgrade than that by Moody’s two weeks ...