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18/12/2025
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to confirm two new heads for Nigeria’s oil and gas regulators after their predecessors abruptly quit, amid a high stakes clash between one agency and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote.
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation signed a $553 million loan with a consortium of firms on Wednesday for the refurbishment of an Angolan railway line – part of the Lobito critical minerals transport corridor.
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have begun withdrawing from the eastern Congolese town of Uvira in an effort to support U.S.-backed peace efforts, their leaders said on Wednesday, promising to complete the pullout by Thursday.
Gabon is planning to introduce a new housing tax in January to finance the Central African oil-producing country’s needs as its debt continues to rise.
Guinea’s Simandou mega mining project, promoted by the military government as a symbol of the country’s economic transformation, is laying off thousands of workers just as it begins exporting iron ore after decades of delays and corruption scandals.
Ethiopia is the largest and most populated country in the Horn of Africa. With the 1993 secession of Eritrea, its former province along the Red Sea, Ethiopia became landlocked.
Uganda plans to borrow $608 million from lenders such as the Korea Export-Import Bank and South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) to finance infrastructure development, a parliament document showed on Tuesday.
Congolese ex-rebel leader Roger Lumbala was found guilty by a Paris court on Monday of complicity in crimes against humanity committed during the Second Congo War and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, an official said.
South Sudan’s government has grounded four aircraft registered under the United Nations mission there, alleging that they were used for illegal surveillance and smuggling, which the U.N. denied.
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have said they would withdraw from the eastern Congo town of Uvira at the request of the U.S. administration, which had criticised seizure of the town last week as a threat to mediation efforts.
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