After working for three assistant secretaries for African affairs in the State Department, Robert Cabelly now finds himself facing the prospect of 20 years in jail. On Oct. 27, the Justice Department accused him of breaching American sanctions against Sudan [.
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According to our sources, Chad president Idriss Deby spent a few hours in Yaounde on Sept. 27 in the company [...]
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Burundi has just awarded a new license on Lake Tanganyika while Democratic Republic of Congo is also opening the door to exploration on its part of the shore.
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The operations of the French-British oil company in Lower Congo were recently disrupted by problems with the local inhabitants.
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that BHP Billiton’s project for the Inga 3 dam is going nowhere at present. A [...]
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While Ali Bongo allowed his prime minister Paul Biyoghe Mba, to appoint one of his cronies, Julien Nkoghe Bekale, as [...]
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Despite an agreement between Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola [...]
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India is pulling out all the stops to catch up [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Calyon has syndicated a USD [...]
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Canada’s Cygam group has agreed to a proposal for a partnership with a mysterious independent U.S. company that insists on remaining in the shadows.
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Several officials from foreign oil companies recently took Sonatrach and [...]
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The National Oil Corp (NOC) still hasn’t wound up negotiations [...]
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With two oil licenses in its portfolio, the Polish company Summa Energy has diversified into trading as well as the sale of bauxite and military equipment.
Westfield Exploration was set up in Nigeria just six days before agreeing to buy the Canadian oil firm Mart Resources. The deal must now be finalized.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Mali has been trying since this summer to see that the Trans Sahara Gas Pipeline [...]
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A creditor of Greece’s CCC oil services group has blocked the company’s accounts and assets, freezing its gas projects in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.
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Leaders of the four OMVS member states have broken the ground of the Felou dam that Sinohydro is to build.
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Two Brazilian companies are to build a 90 MW dam in Ghana. Brazil will put up 75% of the money.
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Chief executive of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from 2007 to this year, Timi Alaibe was named special adviser [...]
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Former Mauritanian oil minister Dy Ould Zein was appointed a special aide to the country’s president by the cabinet on [...]
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The Department of Petroleum Resources and the Nigerian National Petroleum [...]
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Deputy oil minister and the son of president Teodoro Obiang [...]
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According to La Lettre du Continent (a sister newsletter of [...]
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Operating in Indonesia, the British explorer Sound Oil announced on [...]
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Younger brother of former president George W. Bush, Neil Bush [...]
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Kgalema Motlanthe, the South African vice president, is planning to [...]
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Lee Muller, vice president of the American power station constructor [...]
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Private security concerns are working hand in glove with Puntland's government to accelerate oil exploration in the breakaway province.
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Canada’s Lion Energy (formerly Raytec) won’t buy out a company [...]
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Johnnie Carson, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, [...]
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The South African company will decide this week on how to react to the government’s refusal to give it a license to sell gas in Western Cape province.
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According to our sources, ExxonMobil’s exploration chief for the East [...]
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The first well drilled by Total on its 17/06 block [...]
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In hiring the former chief executive of Canada’s Africa Oil, Richard Schmitt, on October 22, the United Arab Emirates group [...]
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On Nov. 1, Iran and Venezuela set up a joint [...]
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A private bank founded in Bahrain by two Saudi bankers, [...]
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The new Paris outpost of the Canadian law firm Fasken [...]
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The former Canadian prime minister attended a reception thrown last [...]
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