The Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped the Chinese major from rolling up its sleeves and getting ready to start Nigerien crude oil exports as soon as possible.
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Basile Kouna Atangana, who served in Cameroon's government until 2018, was jailed last year in connection with an anticorruption operation, but his legal woes are coming to an end. Here's why.
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Politics The launch of the new Blue mobile telephone service by national telecommunications company Camtel has brought to a head the tensions between telecoms minister Minette Libom li Likeng, who is close to the presidency, and Camtel director general Judith Yah Sunday-Achidi, one of the wives of former prime minister Simon Achidi Achu, who hails from the anglophone north western region.
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A freshly-created subsidiary in Guinea helps Heeney Capital reinforce its presence in gold mining.
It does not seem likely that the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will uphold the arbitral ruling given in 2014 against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) in its dispute with the oil majors ExxonMobil and Shell.
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Energy President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso, who was re-elected in November, is due to travel to Paris on 10 February.
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Diplomacy Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group is considering expanding its presence in the western part of the continent.
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Business Canada's B2Gold Corp filied its first two permit requests on 28 January.
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The US Army has left Somalia but the US Air Force is still carrying out operations there against Al-Shabaab. Air transport contractor Berry Aviation is also continuing to operate in East Africa and the rest of the continent.
Sosian Energy, owned by a son of former president Daniel Arap Moi, is about clinch a contract from Kenyan authorities to build a 40-MW solar farm in Konza Technopolis, the country's wannabe Silicon Valley.
Companies headed by Chinese businessman Wu Tao have been at work for nearly 10 years in Mozambique's heavy sands, which are prized for the titanium-rich ilmenite they contain. Now, they have extended their search for the precious mineral to the seabeds of the country's coastal waters.
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Mining Madagascar's lucrative lychee exports are discreetly controlled by business magnate Maminiaina Ravatomanga, a long-time unofficial adviser to President Rajoelina but with whom he is now at odds.
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Electrical work in Abidjan's Mohammed VI mosque will be completed by Electomar. The change of contractor comes several weeks after the building was supposed to have been finished.
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