International catering and logistics firms are up against well-connected Ugandans hoping to win business from the oil giant.
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Albert Yuma's statement on freelance miners during his visit to South Kivu at the beginning of July did not go down well with allies of Modeste Bahati.
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Mining As one of the winners in the government reshuffle of May, for the last two months the minister of international cooperation and son of the president, Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso, has been busy meeting with diplomats and foreign companies, never missing an opportunity to publicise his ministerial activities.
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Following President Emmanuel Macron's decision to significantly cut back Operation Barkhane in the Sahel, French service provider Losberger will begin disassembling two remote military bases in northern Mali.
ENI's crusade to hold to account those it considers guilty in the "Malabu affair" ran into a first stumbling block in a Delaware court in mid-July.
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Energy Since mid-July, Iranian diplomats have been generously handing out invitations to African heads of state to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Ebrahim Raisi.
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Spire Bank hasn't published positive results since it was sold to the Mwalimu National cooperative by its former boss Naushad Merali, the late CEO of Sameer Group who died in July. Things have become so dire that the Central Bank of Kenya is making plans to close the financial institution.
Sacked in 2016 during a major restructuring of Metorex, a company owned by China's Jinchuan Group, its former director of operations Theunis de Bruyn had been seeking more substantial compensation from his ex-employer on the grounds that Chinese colleagues had been unfairly favoured for management posts.
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The bidders for the Noor PV II project to construct photovoltaic power plants with a total capacity of 400 MW have secured an extension to the bidding process.
First he suspended parliament and sacked the prime minister. Now the president plans to turn up the heat on his political enemies by co-opting military intelligence agents in a renewed bid to recover embezzled billions.
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