Daily Intel Updates May 11, 2022

 

Daily issue Wednesday 11 May 2022

SPOTLIGHT

ISRAEL _ _   Israel selects Paris to promote its African return     At the end of May, Israel's embassy in France will organise a large conference on the African policy of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and on Israeli firms' interest for the continent.  [...]

THE CONTINENT

AFRICA _ _   The New Guard: Morocco, Chad, Uganda, South Africa   Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics. This week: Ali Seddiki (Morocco), Succès Mascra (Chad), Doreen Nyanjura (Uganda), Ronald Lamola (South Africa).  [...]    FREE  _ _

EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

ETHIOPIA _ _  POLITICS _ _   Fighting resumes between Tigrayans and Eritreans

CENTRAL AND WEST AFRICA

CHAD _ _  DIPLOMACY _ _   Amid gold fever, Italy's Ara Pacis offers to mediate with defectors turned rogue miners   The Rome-based non-profit, which has close ties to Italy's security apparatus, is proposing to mediate between Chad's government and an armed group active in mining gold, a metal that sanctions-struck Russia is keen to get is hands on.  [...]

CAMEROON _ _  POLITICS _ _   Ailing Biya visited by his French doctor

NORTH AFRICA

LIBYA _ _  TUNISIA _ _  DIPLOMACY _ _   Mongi Hamdi enters race for UN Special Envoy seat in Libya   The former Tunisian foreign minister, who previously led the UN mission in Mali, has joined the list of candidates vying for the highly exposed role of UN special envoy to Libya. While he has yet to gain President Kais Saied's support, he has been backed by Algiers.  [...]

TUNISIA _ _  DIPLOMACY _ _   Macron puts pressure on Saied, but Paris plays it safe in Brussels

OIL & GAS

EQUATORIAL GUINEA _ _  CORPORATE STRATEGY _ _   Behind-the-scenes of Trident, Kosmos and Panoro extension negotiations on Okume and Ceiba   Trident, Kosmos and Panoro have hit the jackpot in obtaining extensions of more than 10 years of their production licences on these two fields. The three companies will thus be able to increase their exploitable reserves by several million barrels.  [...]

CHAD _ _  STATE STRATEGY _ _   US court relaxes surveillance of Griffiths Energy co-founder Naeem Riaz Tyab

MINING SECTOR

ZIMBABWE _ _  POLITICS _ _   Fearing seizures, Mnangagwa transfers state mining assets to a new entity   ZMDC, the state-owned company that owns the majority of the government's mining portfolio, needs to find more than $400m to compensate aggrieved former business partners.  [...]

Discover our subscription offers Daily issue Wednesday 11 May 2022 SPOTLIGHT  UNITED STATES _ _  UNITED KINGDOM _ _  CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE _ _   Corporate intelligence firms face succession choices   Founders and managers looking to protect their corporate intelligence firms' futures essentially only have two quite different routes open to them.  [...] GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE  UNITED STATES _ _  LEBANON _ _   Abbas Ibrahim still in hot water in US despite pulling off prisoner release   Ibrahim has done many hostage and prisoner deals in his day and has now succeeded again by securing the release of a Lebanese detainee in Abu Dhabi. Yet the latest has done nothing to allay growing US anger over accusations that the spy chief was behind the torture of Amer al-Fakhoury.  [...]      ARGENTINA _ _  CHINA _ _  UNITED STATES _ _   Washington launches political and security counter-offensive against Beijing in Argentina   To curb China's increasing influence in Argentina, the US has organised visits by delegations in the country, some of which have taken place secretly. After successfully freezing the Parana dredging project, Washington wants to block construction of a Chinese logistics centre.  [...]      FRANCE _ _   French military intelligence shouldered by US intelligence community expert   General Cyril Carcy, an expert on ISR and who is close the US intelligence community, is about to become second in command of the French military intelligence agency as it undergoes a complete overhaul.  [...] INTERNATIONAL DEALMAKING  CHINA _ _  UNITED STATES _ _  RUSSIA _ _   Washington eyes European nuclear power   A bipartisan bill currently making its way through the US Congress aims to increase nuclear exports to counter Beijing and Moscow in Europe, which is experiencing energy supply problems due to the war in Ukraine.  [...] CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE  FRANCE _ _  JAPAN _ _  UNITED KINGDOM _ _   Audere ups its game with new Asia-focused consultants   Oliver Blackmore earlier this year completed taking over Audere International, a corporate intelligence firm founded by his father Charles Blackmore. He is now stepping up recruitment of consultants internationally, particularly in Asia, to strengthen his company's presence there.  [...]      FRANCE _ _   French company EPEE considers handing over to ADIT   The partial sale of the veteran business diplomacy and security group EPEE, led by Jacques Hogard, is being watched closely from all sides. EPEE handles security for the Nigerien uranium mine Arlit strategic to the French state. ADIT could be ready to get out its cheque book.  [...] SURVEILLANCE & INTERCEPTION  SWEDEN _ _  UNITED KINGDOM _ _   Online investigator Silobreaker to work for the young Swedish anti-fake news agency   The Swedish-British data analysis company Silobreaker is to provide an open source intelligence platform to the the anti-disinformation agency Myndigheten för Psykologiskt Försvar. This comes at a time when the country is living in fear of interference from Russia in the run-up to this year's parliamentary elections.  [...] Discover our subscription offers