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Pedal to the Metal

Nigeria: Seplat seeks to raise gas production to match surging demand

Nigerian oil and gas producer Seplat has seen a jump in gas demand as higher diesel prices prompt a search for alternatives, director of new ... energy Yetunde Taiwo tells The Africa Report.

William Ruto and Raila Odinga

an overview

Kenya 2022: What to expect in this year’s most competitive elections

Political analysts have billed this year’s election as one of the most competitive in Kenya’s history, pitting deputy president William Ruto ... against the godfather of opposition politics Raila Odinga. There is already fear that the cut-throat competition for the top seat might fail to produce an outright winner hence forcing a run-off.

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Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda

Coming together

Commonwealth summit opens in Rwanda amid feuds over leadership, refugees

Political leaders from across the English-speaking world gather in Kigali this week for the first time since the pandemic to try to forge a common ... path forward. Instead of a show of unity, however, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is marked by a power struggle over who should lead the 54-member group and a global outcry over the British government's policy of deporting refugees to Rwanda.

Kenyan Deputy President Ruto campaign rally in Nairobi

UDA rebellion

Kenya 2022: Will Ruto weather the storm for voter-rich Mount Kenya?

Deputy President William Ruto is now facing rebellion from his Kenya Kwanza Alliance parties in the voter-rich Mount Kenya region over the blocking ... of candidates who are running for the parliament, senate and governor seats because they are not directly from his United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party. At the centre of the problem is Ruto’s running mate Rigathi Gachagua, whom many are referring to as a ‘dictator’.

resolution vehicle

Alain Nkontchou: ‘Ecobank ranks among the top 3 in 15 African countries’

The future of payment activities and fintech, the situation in Nigeria, the relationship with regulators and shareholders ... Interviewed in ... Abidjan, the Ecobank Transnational Inc (ETI) president talked with us about the pan-African banking group’s key issues.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the Asia Security Summit, live from Kyiv, 11 June 2022. ©Ukrainian Presidential Press Off/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press/REA

virtual address

War in Ukraine: Behind closed doors with Zelenskyy and the African Union

On Monday, 20 June, the Ukrainian head of state addressed the pan-African organisation during a virtual meeting in which only four heads of state ... from the continent took part.

Kenya's Opposition leader Raila Odinga names his running mate, in Nairobi

Sweet talk

Kenya 2022: Raila promises the moon with Azimio manifesto

Presidential candidate Raila Odinga's Azimio coalition manifesto promises voters a range of freebies that many political analysts believe will ... be impossible to fully deliver if he wins the 9 August elections. Will Kenya's 22 million registered voters take the bait?

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take the lead

Egypt: ‘No more useless promises’ says UN climate champion Mohieldin

Free again

DRC: Vital Kamerhe forgives President Félix Tshisekedi, declares his loyalty

First ladies

Zimbabwe: Is Mnangagwa’s wife Auxillia following in ‘Gucci Grace’ Mugabe’s footsteps?

take the lead

Egypt: ‘No more useless promises’ says UN climate champion Mohieldin

Free again

DRC: Vital Kamerhe forgives President Félix Tshisekedi, declares his loyalty

First ladies

Zimbabwe: Is Mnangagwa’s wife Auxillia following in ‘Gucci Grace’ Mugabe’s footsteps?

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new gold

DRC, Mali, Zimbabwe: The race to become a top lithium producer

The explosion in the price of lithium has opened up new prospects for the mineral on the continent. But for the time being, the transformation ... of this resource – which has become strategic for technology companies – is mainly carried out outside Africa. Our infographics tell the story.

Terminals at the Port Sudan in eastern Africa are built by Chinese port builder China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).

aid and investments

Sudan: UAE to partner with DAL Group to build new port

The UAE is to partner with DAL, the largest private company in Sudan, to build a new Red Sea port in the country. The $6bn investment package ... “includes a free trade zone, a large agricultural project and an imminent $300m deposit to Sudan’s central bank,” says DAL group chairman Osama Daoud Abdellatif.

Running on Fumes

Bboxx CEO plans clean gas for cooking expansion in Rwanda, Kenya

Solar power company Bboxx plans to extend its liquid petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking offer to countries including Rwanda and Kenya, CEO Mansoor ... Hamayun tells The Africa Report.

A woman harvests tobacco at a farm outside Harare

indigenous resources

Zimbabwe: Tobacco farming is ‘fueling deforestation’

Zimbabwe, the largest producer of tobacco in Africa and sixth globally, is looking to turn tobacco farming into a $5bn industry by 2025. It is ... one of the biggest foreign currency earners for the Southern African nation, along with gold and remittances.

Juggling Act

Kenyan budget office sends warning signal over IMF targets

Kenya runs a risk of breaching targets agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country’s parliamentary budget office (PBO) has ... warned, citing a bulging fiscal deficit.

Cosmopolitan life

From MTN to MFS Africa, the journey of Dare Okoudjou, the Beninese boss conquering the US

Between Porto-Novo, Casablanca, London and Paris, the fintech boss Dare Okoudjou’s cosmopolitan itinerary today allows him to be at the head ... of a start-up that is capable of acquiring a US company.

Lt. General Kainerugaba attends his birthday party in Entebbe

tweeter-in-chief

DRC/Uganda/Rwanda – Muhoozi’s tweets threaten regional balance

Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has helped bring Kigali and Kampala closer together, but his provocative ... tweets are now unsettling a delicate regional balance between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda.

data transparency

Google Translate takes on ten more African languages

Since May, Google has offered translations for ten new African languages. But how can we promote them on the internet while still keeping control ... of our data?

In this Saturday Feb. 9, 2013 photo, residents gather at sundown at 'Hope' camp for internally-displaced Kenyans from the Kikuyu tribe, near Nyahururu, in Kenya. The 624 people living at Hope Camp, a spot near the equator in a placed called Laikipia, is an illustration of one of the many lingering effects of the tribe-on-tribe violence that rocked Kenya after its 2007 presidential election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

status quo

Kenya: Why Raila & Ruto remain quiet on land justice issues

For the first time in decades, Kenya’s leading presidential candidates are skirting around the explosive issue of land justice – instead ... of exploiting it as a way to mobilise voters to their campaigns. Both candidates – for different reasons – have chosen to accept the status quo on legal regime on land rights

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Free Float

Mozambique: Eni sees first offshore LNG cargo at end of third quarter

Italian oil and gas major Eni sees a rapid scaling up of the production of floating liquid natural gas (LNG) offshore Mozambique after the start ... of output at the end of the third quarter, the company’s director upstream Luca Vignati tells The Africa Report.

British PM Johnson meets with Portugal's PM Antonio Costa

partner pitch

Boris Johnson: ‘Corruption deprives a nation of its rightful resources and stifles growth’

The UK sees the post-Brexit moment in Africa as an opportunity to rebuild commercial ties to the continent, says Boris Johnson. ...

Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa (rights reserved)

southern promise

Nigeria 2023: Can Okowa neutralise Peter Obi’s influence in the Christian south?

With the emergence of Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, an ethnic Igbo, as the vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party ... (PDP), the party now believes it is in pole position to win the 2023 presidential election. However, the Peter-Obi-phenomenon remains a threat to the PDP in most parts of the Christian South, analysts say

Ponzi scheme?

Cameroon: The astonishing Émile Parfait Simb, fallen king of cryptocurrency

Successful entrepreneur for some, swindler for others...Émile Parfait Simb presents himself as an economic operator who made his fortune in ... cryptocurrencies and is now the subject of several judicial investigations. A look back at the path of a controversial character.