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Spotlight | DRC, Tanzania, Uganda
Tshisekedi wants slice of planned Ugandan crude oil pipeline pie, TotalEnergies sceptical

President of Democratic Republic of Congo Felix Tshisekedi shakes hands with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in Entebbe, Uganda, on the 9th of November 2019. © Sumy Sadurni/AFP

The president of DRC is pushing for his country to have a stake in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) through which Uganda's plans to export via Tanzania, despite the fact no crude oil has been discovered on the Congolese side of Lake Albert.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics, Diplomacy

The Continent

Africa
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Alassane Ouattara, Félix Tshisekedi and Azali Assoumani

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

DRC
World Bank puts pressure on Kinshasa

Three projects funded by the World Bank to the tune of a billion dollars face possible interruption. The international institution is unhappy with DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi's decision to dissolve the country's social fund and replace it with a new entity.

Subscribers only Politics

Congo
President's grandchildren get new lawyer in ill-gotten gains case

Two of the Congolese president's grandchildren - Omar Denis Junior Bongo and Yacine Bongo - now have a new lawyer representing them in the ill-gotten gains case.

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West Africa

Ghana
Behind the scenes of GNPC's Saltpond decommissioning

The dismantling of Ghana's Saltpond oilfield facilities, piloted by GNPC, was marked by the aborted hiring of a contractor linked to a relative of the firm's chief executive. This scared off a US partner, which invoked the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to pull out.

Subscribers only Energy

Liberia
US Department of State attempts to mediate between ArcelorMittal and HPX

The management of the rail link between Liberian mining sites and the port of Buchanan is still the subject of intense negotiations. To try to find a solution to this logistical and commercial disagreement, the State Department brought together in Washington executives from ArcelorMittal and the American company High Power Exploration.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining

Burkina Faso, West Africa
President Traore pampers miner Iamgold

Despite needing money to buy weapons to fight armed groups in the north of Burkina Faso, the junta has decided to turn a blind eye to the Canadian firm's infringement of customs regulations. IamGold is the last mining firm operating in this region beset by terrorist violence.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Tanzania
Gold rush on Juma Island

Juma Island, located in the south of Lake Victoria off the coast of Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest city, is attracting increasing interest from gold mining companies. B&G Company Limited has started initial prospecting there.

Subscribers only Mining

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Ramaphosa government frets over court ruling that power cuts breach citizens' basic rights

Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan at his swearing-in ceremony at Sefako Makgato Presidential Guesthouse on the 30th of May 2019 in Pretoria, South Africa. © Phill Magakoe/AFP

The South African government is worried that a court ruling obliging it to supply electricity to hospitals and schools could pave the way for more lawsuits from victims of the power cuts that have plagued the country for years.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Morocco
Rumours of AFRICOM's departure from Stuttgart are unfounded

Following statements from a number of senior US figures, recent weeks have seen repeated talk of the US Africa Command's HQ leaving Germany for somewhere in Africa itself. But AFRICOM is staying in Stuttgart.

Subscribers only Defence

Algeria
EIB negotiates with Algiers to kick-start stalled Medusa submarine cable project

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is in talks with the Algerian authorities to get the Medusa project back on track. The submarine fibre optic cable system, due to come into service in 2024, will be the longest in the Mediterranean.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

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