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Tunisia : French student Victor Dupont released from Tunisian detention

French researcher Victor Dupont has been released by the Tunisian authorities and is due to return to France on 15 November. The 27-year-old PhD student was arrested with a friend on 19 October in Tunis. ​French researcher Victor Dupont has been released by the Tunisian authorities and is due to return to France on 15

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Central African Republic : Third IMF support tranche snags on reform of hydrocarbons sector

Hervé Ndoba’s week in Washington last month was fraught. The Central African finance minister was in the US capital for […] ​Hervé Ndoba’s week in Washington last month was fraught. The Central African finance minister was in the US capital for […] Read More

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Ethiopia/Somalia : Paramilitary defectors alter security balance between Addis Ababa and Mogadishu

The Ethiopian federal state of Somali Regional State (SRS) in the east of the country is undergoing a rapid reshaping […] ​The Ethiopian federal state of Somali Regional State (SRS) in the east of the country is undergoing a rapid reshaping […] Read More

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Zimbabwe : Finance minister Ncube struggles to make mark as Harare’s debt negotiator

President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Mthuli Ncube as finance minister in September 2018. He hadn’t even known him when President Robert Mugabe was ousted almost a year earlier, but decided that the internationally recognised technocrat was what was needed at the helm of the country’s economy. A panel of financial experts led by then Reserve Bank

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