French oil and gas major TotalEnergies is having to deal with a plethora of players as it tries to develop its 11B/12B gas block, with its various South African partners far from united on the issue.
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Faustin-Archange Touadéra and Emmanuel Macron are set to meet in Paris on 13 September, with Gabon and security issues expected to be among the issues on the agenda.
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Diplomacy Without the chair of its council of ministers, the African Continental Free Trade Area needs to work fast to find a new captain.
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Diplomacy The planned sale of the Central African Republic's largest importer [...]
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Contrary to claims from the junta and Rio Tinto, work will not get under way properly at Simandou until the necessary funds have been released. This should happen only when Baowu Steel has been officially admitted into the WCS consortium.
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Mining Several heads of state from ECOWAS are preparing to travel to New York at the end of the month to attend the next United Nations General Assembly.
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The country's leading lawyers' body is split along political lines ahead of the elections for its future president. The elections are being closely followed, but the outcome is difficult to predict.
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Politics For the past few months a flurry of Russian-made Ilyushin cargo planes has been landing at Uganda's main airport. These aircraft are then flown to Central and East African countries in the throes of security and humanitarian crises.
British Standard Chartered Bank will help fund Luanda's new water treatment plant. Quilonga Grande, one of João Lourenço's campaign promises, needs €1.2bn in funding.
The former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister has been chosen as the Arab countries' candidate for the post of director general of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). During his time as minister, however, he allowed a UNESCO-protected Muslim necropolis to be destroyed.
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