Despite the election of a new president and advent of three governments in the intervening 18 months, Congo remains gripped in the same political and economic quagmire that was already evident in early 1992 (AEM 80).
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Gencor is interested in Burkina Faso's manganese and a commercial agreement (via Samancor) and eventually an industrial pact could prove [...]
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Construction of the third section of the diesel-run power station at Bobo Dioulasso could begin before year's end and will [...]
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An exploration campaign costing $10 million and financed by Anglo American Corporation will proceed until June or July, 1994 on [...]
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The African Development Bank has offered a loan to help a Nigerian company carry out a plan to develop a [...]
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Two new production sharing agreements have been signed for the deep offshore off the Niger river delta, contrary to fears [...]
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The debate on whether and how Senelec should be privatized [...]
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On July 7 the government approved two draft decrees that [...]
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The Argentinian company Pluspetrol will take a 10% stake in [...]
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The ADB's board will shortly decide on whether to offer [...]
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AEM understands that the African Development Bank has offered a [...]
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Noble Associates has bought nine jack-ups from Western Oceanic for [...]
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Nuclear power will come under the wing of a "National Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies" (CNSTN) that is to [...]
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A cooperation pact was signed between Total and the Chinese [...]
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State-owned company wells in the Illizi basin in the south-east [...]
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Omnium Nord-Africain has won a $25 million loan put up [...]
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Fifty officials and specialists from 12 Arab countries including four [...]
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AEM has learned that the board of the African Development Bank will approve a grant for a feasibility study on [...]
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The ADB's board is expected in August to approve a [...]
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Tanzania's electricity company Tanesco has confirmed that it ordered two [...]
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Angola's energy minister Mrs. Albina Assis Africano announced on July 7 that two new permits were likely to be signed [...]
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The first phase of a 50 MW hydroelectrical power station that the Energy Supply Commission (ESCOM) of Malawi wants to [...]
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Chevron has issued tender invitations on behalf of its affiliate [...]
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Elf has chartered the Global Marine jack-up Glomar High Island [...]
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One of the themes of a new seminar in Brussels [...]
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Fourteen suppliers were bidding in late July for a contract [...]
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Minorco, the international arm of Ango American Corporation, is considering [...]
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Occidental Petroleum has confirmed what its silence on the matter [...]
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The state's second-ranking copper mining company behind Gecamines, Sodimiza, which operates mines at Musoshi and Kinsenda, announced that production of [...]
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The African Development Bank (ADB) is expected to approve a grant at the end of 1993 for a project to [...]
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Ufiner-Cofreth confirmed in a laconic communique on July 12 that a consortium made up of Lyonnaise des Eaux-Dumez, EDF-International and [...]
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Zaire's "new Eldorado" for trading and small-scale mining of diamonds [...]
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Elf has chartered the dynamically positioned drillship Pelerin Explorer, managed [...]
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The idea of staging a "Solar Energy Decade" to promote [...]
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