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Spotlight | Congo
Lobbyists circle round Denis Sassou Nguesso

Christophe de Margerie, the Total chief who died in a plane crash in October last year, was one of the rare captains of industry who did not need intermediaries to gain access to Republic of Congo's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso. The [...]

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Adel al-Jubeir offers Sassou OPEC on a plate

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Agip and Oando want NNPC to pay $573 million

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‘Kiki' tightens his grip on international contracts

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Spotlight | Congo
French, Norwegian and Emirates in alliance on Total’s fields

The stakes of Total and ENI on the mature fields of Tchibouela, Tchendo and Tchibeli-Litanzi were snapped up by an unexpected trio that will operate them alongside local firms. Behind it all lay protracted negotiations in Brazzaville.

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Big and small scramble to pick up Total's relinquished acreage

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Sassou secures oil deal with Ouattara

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French business out of favour with Sassou

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Sassou has courts under his thumb

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Spotlight | Africa
Presidents build fiefs in their own image

The home villages of many African leaders have reaped the benefits of their privileged position over the years. These fiefs attract finance and modern infrastructure of a kind that tend to exist nowhere else in the country.

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Probe into nephew strikes at Denis Sassou Nguesso

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Spotlight | Congo
Lobbyists circle round Denis Sassou Nguesso

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Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso plans national airline relaunch

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PR guru Hudson Sandler's African ambitions

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Nigeria's Pelfaco woos Mercuria over Saunda

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Maxime Gandzion goes into consulting in Kinshasa

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Jose Veiga hits back against Asperbras

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OML 125/134: ENI/Oando holding out for Nigerian court decision over NNPC sentence

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Valentin Ambende Nguesso manages his uncle's assets

Congo
Cendrine Sassou Nguesso emigrates to Malabo

Congo
Teresa Goma elbows out Pelfaco's Congolese partners on Sounda Marine

Congo
Yoann Gandzion expands the activities of his Afrique Pesage subsidiary

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Sassou plays for time with the IMF

Congo
Adel al-Jubeir offers Sassou OPEC on a plate

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Nigerian Pelfaco hears Rovuma's siren song

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Agip and Oando want NNPC to pay $573 million

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‘Kiki' tightens his grip on international contracts

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French, Norwegian and Emirates in alliance on Total’s fields

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Big and small scramble to pick up Total's relinquished acreage

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Bouya is unwell

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Sassou Nguesso hosts lavish wedding feast

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Sassou secures oil deal with Ouattara

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French business out of favour with Sassou

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Sassou reshapes prefect corps in his image

Congo
Sassou’s will tested by opposition

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Sassou has courts under his thumb

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Paul-Marie Mpouele rallies opposition against Sassou Nguesso

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Charles Bowao, Sassou’s former eminence grise switches sides

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Sassou hatches plan to neutralise Kolelas

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