All articles - Africa

The Intelligence Gazette
Pressure on DGSE in Africa, China on Ukraine fence, France's ‘Mr Big Event' security boss moves on, UK's former ISC chair speaks out

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

France/AfricaPressure tactics on DGSE

ChinaCCP bans criticism of Putin and Trump

FranceProtection Service's ‘Mr Big Event' lands interior ministry job

United KingdomFormer head of parliamentary oversight opens up

The Tech Times
Presight picks Anton Kharitonov, DCI's ISR drones, Falkor and Epieos

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT, with a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

Abu Dhabi Russian OSINT expert heads Presight's intelligence teams

Paris DCI wants to supply ISR drones to MNJTF

Tel Aviv Falkor picks French firm Epieos's OSINT solutions

Space intelligence programmes in Africa adapt to raging geopolitical storms

The problems encountered by Moscow in its space observation programmes are having a direct impact on Russian partnerships with African countries. The main beneficiary is China, but Washington is trying to get back in the game too.

DGSE worried as supplier row leaves Chad's spy plane plan in limbo

France's foreign intelligence service is keeping a discreet eye on a snarled programme to modernise the Sahelian country's intelligence and attack aircraft.

Suneris's African contracts in turmoil

French cyber-intelligence firm Suneris has seen its customer states fall, one after the other, in the recent series of coups in Africa. Not only are its contracts at risk, but the confidentiality of its technologies could be breached.

The Tech Times
French border police go airborne, Air Attack and CARBON 01 in Ouagadougou, Kosiba back after bracket f downfall

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

Paris Border police keen for airborne surveillance

Ouagadougou Air Attack Technologies and CARBON 01's Africa goals align

Washington Ex-Computer Network Operations' Kosiba lands on his feet

Aerodata equips Abidjan's surveillance aircraft to fight piracy

The German aeronautical engineering company Aerodata is integrating ISR technologies into two Beechcraft King Air aircraft for the Ivorian air force.

Ex-justice minister's nephew Abraham Sako helps Israel's Kaymera Technologies in Guinea

Abraham Sako is assisting Avi Rosen, Omri Lavi and Shalev Hulio's Israeli cybersecurity firm Kaymera pitch its solutions to Guinea's interim president Mamady Doumbouya.

The Intelligence Gazette
Austria pessimistic over Ukraine, Russian soft power for Africa summit, Europol reaches out to Kyiv

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

AustriaAnalysts not optimistic about Ukraine's chances

RussiaRussian influence agency supports African journalists

UkraineAsset recovery agency steps in line with Europol

Israeli cyber firm CIPTEAM teams up with Mitrelli

The small Israeli company is the new cyber provider for New Cognito, the cyber subsidiary of the Israeli-Angolan conglomerate Mitrelli, which secures contracts in Africa for Israeli companies.

From Paris, ESL & Network promotes the reputation of an increasingly Russia-aligned Madagascar

The French firm has been appointed to smooth relations between the French and Malagasy governments, in the wake of multiple tensions which include Antananarivo's honeymoon with Moscow.

Spotlight
Bernard Barbier boosts French bid to get back on top of African cyber sector

Bernard Barbier, a former bigwig in France's DGSE foreign intelligence service, has been promoting French cyber in Ivory Coast, notably on behalf of the former foreign intelligence officers' firms Tehtris and Corexalys.

Berlin and Oslo seek experts to help boost financial intelligence in the Balkans and Africa

Backed by the Norwegian foreign ministry, German development agency GIZ is turning to the private sector for help to speed up its programme to fight illicit financial flows among Berlin's allies.

Intelligence provider HSS pursues its African ventures despite legal woes

Security technology developer HSS Development is attempting to distance itself from its legal debacles by focussing on technological innovation and strengthening its African operations. It will present its new drone-mounted IMSI-catcher at the upcoming ISS World event in Washington.

Interceptions specialist Vastech seeks new pastures through German connections

A key supplier to South Africa's National Communications Centre, the interceptions firm has increasingly been looking for opportunities outside of Africa and already has a solid network in Germany to call on.

Prométhée offers custom-made geospatial intelligence platforms to Gulf and African clients

Drawing on chairman Olivier Piepsz's extensive business network, the French geospatial intelligence start-up Prométhée has locked in a string of partnerships with players in the French space sector and is now attracting prospective clients in the Gulf and Africa.

Israel's Rayzone Group's inevitable African turn

In a sign of its growing interest in Africa, the Israeli cyberintelligence firm Rayzone Group presented its interception and cybersecurity systems to a visiting delegation from the DRC recently, a few weeks after prospecting for business in Ghana and Ivory Coast.