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Congo
Pierre Oba's battle with Australian miners drags on

Republic of Congo minister of mines and geology Pierre Oba in New York on 26 May 2015. © Jemal Countess/Getty Images via AFP

The Congolese minister of mines is dealing with three separate arbitration proceedings over the withdrawal in late 2020 of the mining permits of Sundance Resources, Avima Iron Ore and Equatorial Resources. [...]

Published on 24/11/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Cameroon
Mining minister urges president's office to move forward on Sundance arbitration

When a Cameroon delegation headed to Beijing for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation one of the key issues they sought to bring up was the Chinese-funded Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore mine. Arbitration proceedings to settle a dispute with the former project developer are still at a standstill.

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Cameroon
Yaoundé's unpaid bills threaten to derail iron ore arbitration

The Cameroonian government has not paid the costs of the proceedings, nor the fees of the lawyers and financial expert who have assisted it in the case against the Australian company Sundance Resources.

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Alexandre Mbiam will struggle to keep his promises on Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore project

The Cameroonian businessman, who has good links with the authorities in Yaounde and Brazzaville, is trying to give the impression that his legal battle with Sundance, which was deprived of the project in late 2021, will affect neither the Chinese financing he hopes to get for it or its production date.

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Congo
ICSID arbitration iron ore cases against Brazzaville ready to start

With the ICSID tribunals now constituted, Equatorial Resources and Midus Holdings' proceedings against the Congolese state will soon begin. Two other proceedings have been initiated before the ICC.

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Cameroon, Congo
In iron ore conflict, Australian Supreme Court allows Sundance access to ex-partner's files

The Australian iron ore company still seems reluctant to file suit against its former partner AustSino over suspected foul play regarding the Nabeba-Mbalam iron project that straddles the Cameroon and Congo. It has, however, won a key battle to help make a decision.

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Congo
Brazzaville appoints arbitrator against Avima Iron Ore in $27bn case

The arbitration launched by Avima Iron Ore (@AvimaO) against #Congo in June 2021 will soon be the focus of a first court hearing before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). #Oil

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Congo
Congo sets its favourite lawyers on WNR in Marine XI arbitration

The target since 12 May of arbitration proceedings at ICSID brought by UK company World Natural Resources (WNR), Congo has sought help from two familiar French lawyers.

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Inner circles | Congo
Mines minister and Sassou favourite Pierre Oba besieged by irate investors

The seeking of around $40bn from the Congolese state by four companies in compensation for the recent cancellation of their iron mining permits has placed the country's mining industry's movers and shakers in the spotlight, not least the powerful minister of mines Pierre Oba who is an essential cog in President Denis Sassou Nguesso's machine.

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Congo
$8.76 billion arbitration: Sundance opens a second iron ore battlefront against Brazzaville

Its subsidiary Congo Iron initiated arbitration against Congo in March over its unilateral withdrawal from its Nabeba iron project, and in late June the parent company Australian Sundance followed suit and has requested that the two actions be judged together.

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WNR launches arbitration against Brazzaville after its Marine XI ousting

Furious at having lost its shares in the Marine XI oil block, World Natural Resources has decided to bring its dispute with the Congolese state before the World Bank's ICSID tribunal.

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Congo
Thierry Lauriol and Kevin Grossmann will defend Congo against Sundance and Equatorial

The Congolese state has chosen French lawyers Thierry Lauriol of law firm Jeantet and Kevin Grossmann to represent it in its dispute with the two mining companies, which are seeking compensation after having been deprived of their iron ore mining permits.

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Cameroon, Congo
Sundance sets out its grievances against Brazzaville and Yaoundé over Nabeba-Mbalam iron ore

As it considers whether to go to arbitration with Congo and Cameroon over the unilateral decision to rescind its iron ore mining permit for Nabeba-Mbalam, Australia's Sundance Resources is claiming that the two states breached a series of agreements and did not inform them in time of their intentions.

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Cameroon
Mining minister urges president's office to move forward on Sundance arbitration

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Yaoundé's unpaid bills threaten to derail iron ore arbitration

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Alexandre Mbiam will struggle to keep his promises on Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore project

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ICSID arbitration iron ore cases against Brazzaville ready to start

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In iron ore conflict, Australian Supreme Court allows Sundance access to ex-partner's files

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