A number of traders are courting state-owned Gabon Oil Co. They want to market the crude oil at stake in US giant Carlyle's sale of its Gabonese assets.
Congo's national oil company wants to digitise its data with the goal of taking on its first exploration project. The Ministry of Hydrocarbons remains sceptical.
On 20 November, the Paris court of appeal upheld a ruling ordering the French state to pay the French business lawyer Jean-Pierre Chiaradia-Bousquet €42,000 in damages.
Robert Friedland is due to meet Liberia's new president in the next few weeks in the United States. The mining tycoon, reassured by the change of government, has made new acquisitions and hopes to gain access to the railway linking the Nimba mining area to the port of Buchanan.
The Ugandan opposition figure took advantage of his trip to Europe to regain the upper hand on the local branches of his party, the NUP. At home, Wine is being overshadowed by his rival and opposition leader MP Mathias Mpuuga.
The Kenya Power and Lighting Company's soaring electricity prices have prompted regional titan Mombasa Cement to abandon the state utility and switch to a private supplier. In so doing, it follows in the footsteps of Narendra Raval.
After years of fruitless attempts, the US hotel group Hilton Hotels & Resorts has almost succeeded in penetrating the Angolan market, with the help of an associate of the former ruling dos Santos clan. But obstacles still lie ahead.
After winning a year-long legal battle with Peter Deane, Tamim Rashed, head of the Libyan private security firm, may now file a case against Deane's new employer, his competitor Septimius Security.
Hasnaoui Télécom Algérie is leaving the telecommunications sector and its 2019 project to launch an internet TV station, IPTV, for which it was unable to obtain the necessary licences to roll it out nation-wide.
