Kinshasa, Abuja, Libreville, Khartoum, Cairo... A raft of key French embassies are due to change hands in the coming weeks. Exclusive revelations.
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The block that currently only produces 400 bpd could get new lease of life thanks to work carried out in recent months by the national oil company.
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Energy Against the initial advice of the World Bank advice, public sector energy distributor Sonatrel has insisted on involving its own technicians in the project to set up an electricity interconnection between Cameroon and Chad. It is going to have to use outside consultants, however, to handle the financial side of the project.
With the diplomatic skirmish over customs decisions between Nigeria and Benin threatening to paralyse the subregion's entire economy, the Ivorian president has reached out to both their heads of state in an attempt to get them talking again.
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Politics After working together for more than twenty-five years, Victor Delerue and his son Axel will no longer represent Raidco Marine in West Africa. The dramatic end to their lengthy relationship was due to a spat with Raidco boss Jean-Michel Monnier.
African ambassadors and other diplomats got together discreetly in a five-star hotel in Accra to draw up the AU's spending plans for next year.
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Among the new blood added to the small list of the president's special advisors is his eldest daughter's husband, Odrek Rwabwogo.
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The Canadian junior that has been developing a graphite project in Madagascar for the past decade is fast becoming a landing pad for ex-managers of South African giant Xstrata, all thanks to its new chairman Sir Mick Davis.
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Fierce global competition for control of rare earths is exacerbating geopolitical tensions. A planned French study could be a game-changer as it will explore how to produce the increasingly sought-after minerals from more abundant by-products of other processed materials.
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Mining YMMY construction group boss Ahmed Lotfi has had to reassure the Nigerien authorities so as to be able to proceed with his construction projects in Niamey. Tarek bin Laden is no longer involved in his plans, while Moroccan companies Koutoubia and Agamine have been brought in to give them a new industrial dimension.
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Business Against a backdrop of water shortages and as the trial of former water resources ministers gets underway, the Algerian Energy Co, a subsidiary of Sonatrach, is searching for new engineering partners to replace the Singapore company Hyflux.
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Business On 12 July, the UN Office for Project Services financed the construction of equipment for the National Guard School's urban combat training centre in Oued Zarga
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