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Burundi: New president sparks cautious hope of change
New president Evariste Ndayishimiye, a former militia fighter and army general, was sworn in on 18 June, ten days after the death of Pierre Nkurunziza. The succession had created some uncertainty, as according to the constitution, Pascal Nyabenda, speaker of the National...
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Burundi
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Zambia: CEC’s fight for survival rages on
A first attempt by Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) at overturning the statutory instrument issued by energy minister Matthew Nkhuwa on 29 May declaring CEC’s network common carrier, as well as the imposition of a tariff a couple of days later, failed when the High Court...
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Zambia
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Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’ mega-ministry met with scepticism
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement that the Department for International Development (DfID) would merge with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in September is more than an institutional rearrangement of the international relations machinery in post-Brexit Global...
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Africa
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EAGB contract suspended
The government has temporarily suspended the management contract for Electricidade e Aguas da Guiné-Bissau (EAGB) held by a Portuguese consortium after the management team pulled out of Bissau because of coronavirus.The suspension took effect from 1 June. The World Bank, which...
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Guinea-Bissau
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Turkey and Russia take Libya initiative as Haftar falters
The success of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) in driving the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF, formerly known as the Libyan National Army) out of a strategic airbase west of the capital has opened up a new phase in the civil war. Geopolitically, the winners...
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Libya
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Burundi leader dies
Burundi’s outgoing president, Pierre Nkurunziza, has died as he prepares to hand over power to a chosen successor. His cause of death on 9 June was officially stated as cardiac arrest, but his wife was reported to have been airlifted to a Nairobi hospital in May suffering from...
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Burundi
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South Africa: Western Cape bemoans pace of policymaking
The Western Cape government has called for Pretoria to speed up policymaking and reduce bureaucracy in its comments on legislative amendments aimed at enabling power procurement by municipalities. In its response to draft amendments to the Electricity Regulation Act 2006...
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South Africa
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