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French court maintains freeze on FACT rebel leader assets

A Paris administrative court has rejected a bid to unfreeze the assets of Mahamat Mahdi Ali, the leader of Chad's Front pour l'Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad (FACT) rebel group.

Subscribers only Politics 26.06.2023

World Bank's Africa head strengthens his team

World Bank VP Ousmane Diagana has hired French technical cooperation agency Expertise France's deputy CEO Rima Le Coguic. She is expected to join the institution's West and Central Africa division over the next few weeks.

Subscribers only Finance 20.06.2023

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Turkish defence flagships cash in on N'Djamena's need for drones and aircraft

Helicopter Atak, Plane Hurkus and drone Anka, designed and upgraded by Turkish Aerospace Industries, perform during Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's visit to Ankara, Turkey on 25 July 2019. © Ercin Top/Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via AFP

Subscribers only Defence Running story - Chad post-Idriss Deby 14.06.2023

Déby asks Switzerland to help trigger rebel disarmament programme

Chad junta leader Mahamat Idriss Déby is banking on Bern to help convince donors to finance his country's disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme aimed at bringing former rebels back into the fold.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy Running story - Chad post-Idriss Deby 07.06.2023

ExxonMobil-Savannah: SNH boss Moudiki ups the ante in letter to Chadian oil minister

The head of Cameroon's Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures sent a scathing letter to Chad's oil minister. Since ExxonMobil's withdrawal from southern Chad, the battle between Savannah Energy and N'Djamena has rekindled a recurring conflict between Cameroon and the Chadian junta.

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2023

Mahamat Idriss Déby calls on Lebanon's Georges Tehini to bolster his electricity production

The deputy secretary general of the president's office, Mahamat Borgou Hassan, has thus invited Cetri's CEO, the Lebanese Georges Tehini to N'Djamena on 17 May to discuss a turnkey photovoltaic power plant project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy Running story - Chad post-Idriss Deby 24.05.2023

Washington sides with ExxonMobil and Chevron over BEAC foreign currency rules

Washington has stepped up its efforts to prevent US oil companies from being obliged to repatriate their rehabilitation funds to the CEMAC zone.

Subscribers only Finance, Energy 18.05.2023

Fate of Griffiths Energy co-founder Naeem Tyab to be determined in August

A US court has set a sentencing hearing for 4 August for the co-founder of Griffiths Energy, whose company is suspected of paying $2m to Chadian officials to obtain oil permits.

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.2023

Delicate week of diplomacy in store for ECCAS

Tchad et Sao Tomé-et-Principe... Le programme est chargé en ce mois de mai pour les émissaires de la Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique centrale (CEEAC) qui s'apprêtent à vivre une intense semaine diplomatique.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 11.05.2023

N'Djamena calls for French reconnaissance flights along Sudanese border

Chadian president Mahamat Idriss Déby fears that the conflict in Sudan the rearmament and organisation of armed groups hostile to the government from Darfur.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 05.05.2023

EU suspends €10m in military aid

Following a diplomatic dispute between Chad and Germany, the EU has put a military aid package for the Chadian armed forces on hold.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 04.05.2023

Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh battles it out with SNH boss Adolphe Moudiki over Savannah Energy affair

The Cameroonian government has been caught up in an internal crisis since the SNH bought a 10% stake in the company running the oil pipeline between Doba and Kribi. In a series of letters seen by African Intelligence, presidency secretary general Ngoh Ngoh and SNH boss Moudiki have been locked in a violent dispute over the operation.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy, Politics 03.05.2023

Washington and Doha increasingly concerned about threat posed by armed groups in Libya

Numerous militia fighters from Darfur and Chad are present in Libya. For the time being, they have refrained from intervening in neighbouring Sudan but, if the hostilities there persist, one of the warring parties could be tempted to call them in.

Subscribers only Defence 03.05.2023

CEMAC weakened by hiatus at top of commission

The executive organ of the Central African bloc is being lead ad interim by Gabon's Daniel Ona Ondo, even though Baltasar Engonga Edjo of Equatorial Guinea was appointed to the post over a month ago.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy 01.05.2023

Kinshasa looks to review terms of engagement of EAC regional force

Following the expiry of the original agreement governing the deployment of the East African Community force in eastern DRC, the Congolese government, unhappy with its performance so far, is hoping to remove the ambiguities of its mandate.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 28.04.2023

Soldiers of the East African Community (EAC) regional force in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

ExxonMobil-Savannah: the behind-the-scenes story of Biya and Déby's feud

With N'Djamena in conflict with Savannah Energy, Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby pushed his Cameroonian counterpart not to legitimise the British junior's stake in the Doba-Kribi pipeline, which exports 100% of Chad's crude. In vain.

Subscribers only Energy 26.04.2023

Kinshasa awaiting $400m World Bank disbursement for road works

The World Bank is delaying its disbursement of some $400m for major road works projects in the DR Congo until Kinshasa files a "resettlement action plan" for the population that the construction works will impact.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance 26.04.2023

Beveraggi gains upper hand over Katumbi in NB Mining Africa dispute

The mining services firm remains at the heart of a protracted legal dispute between the French entrepreneur and the former governor of Katanga. The battle has recently swung in Beveraggi's favour and he is now recovering funds from Ecobank and Gécamines.

Subscribers only Business 21.04.2023

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N'Djamena justifies ExxonMobil asset nationalisation at Savannah Energy's expense

The Chadian Ministry of Hydrocarbons is still trying to make ExxonMobil pay a hefty leaving fee, and has produced a highly critical report of the running of the wells that the US major sold to Savannah Energy in December.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics 05.04.2023

FATF-affiliated action group holds out hope for more World Bank aid

The World Bank's $4m aid package used to run GABAC, an anti-money laundering action group in Central Africa, will expire this year.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy 27.03.2023

Macron's ruling majority falls out over top Francophonie job

The unprecedented holding of a vote to select the secretary-general of the Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie reflects strong tensions between Aurore Bergé and her partners in France's ruling coalition.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy 24.03.2023

Savannah Energy unaffected by row with junta over ExxonMobil asset transfer

Its weeks-long legal battle with Chad's government has not impacted the British junior's bottom line. Even without its own employees on site, it continues its activities as if the transfer from ExxonMobil were not in dispute.

Subscribers only Energy 21.03.2023

French defence minister Lecornu plans trip to N'Djamena

French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is preparing to make an official visit to Chad as part of plans announced by President Emmanuel Macron to completely reorganise France's military presence in Africa.

Subscribers only Defence 20.03.2023

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Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

The main foreign investors in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa are alarmed by the regional body's foreign exchange regulations, considering them to be too tough. But despite intense lobbying, a relaxation of the rules looks unlikely, the central bank having set itself ambitious objectives for foreign currency reserves.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Commodity traders 17.03.2023

Abbas Mahamat Tolli, governor of the Bank of Central African States, in Paris in 2018.

Mahamat Idriss Déby expected in Bangui to signal grand reconciliation

The Chadian president Mahamat Idriss Déby, aka Kaka, will pay an official visit to his Central African counterpart Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Bangui this spring to signal the reconciliation between the two countries.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 17.03.2023

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Chad

French court maintains freeze on FACT rebel leader assets

World Bank's Africa head strengthens his team

Spotlight
Turkish defence flagships cash in on N'Djamena's need for drones and aircraft

Déby asks Switzerland to help trigger rebel disarmament programme

ExxonMobil-Savannah: SNH boss Moudiki ups the ante in letter to Chadian oil minister

Mahamat Idriss Déby calls on Lebanon's Georges Tehini to bolster his electricity production

Washington sides with ExxonMobil and Chevron over BEAC foreign currency rules

Fate of Griffiths Energy co-founder Naeem Tyab to be determined in August

Delicate week of diplomacy in store for ECCAS

N'Djamena calls for French reconnaissance flights along Sudanese border

EU suspends €10m in military aid

Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh battles it out with SNH boss Adolphe Moudiki over Savannah Energy affair

Washington and Doha increasingly concerned about threat posed by armed groups in Libya

CEMAC weakened by hiatus at top of commission

Kinshasa looks to review terms of engagement of EAC regional force

ExxonMobil-Savannah: the behind-the-scenes story of Biya and Déby's feud

Kinshasa awaiting $400m World Bank disbursement for road works

Beveraggi gains upper hand over Katumbi in NB Mining Africa dispute

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N'Djamena justifies ExxonMobil asset nationalisation at Savannah Energy's expense

FATF-affiliated action group holds out hope for more World Bank aid

Macron's ruling majority falls out over top Francophonie job

Savannah Energy unaffected by row with junta over ExxonMobil asset transfer

French defence minister Lecornu plans trip to N'Djamena

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Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

Mahamat Idriss Déby expected in Bangui to signal grand reconciliation

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Chad

French court maintains freeze on FACT rebel leader assets

World Bank's Africa head strengthens his team

Spotlight Turkish defence flagships cash in on N'Djamena's need for drones and aircraft

Déby asks Switzerland to help trigger rebel disarmament programme

ExxonMobil-Savannah: SNH boss Moudiki ups the ante in letter to Chadian oil minister

Mahamat Idriss Déby calls on Lebanon's Georges Tehini to bolster his electricity production

Washington sides with ExxonMobil and Chevron over BEAC foreign currency rules

Fate of Griffiths Energy co-founder Naeem Tyab to be determined in August

Delicate week of diplomacy in store for ECCAS

N'Djamena calls for French reconnaissance flights along Sudanese border

EU suspends €10m in military aid

Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh battles it out with SNH boss Adolphe Moudiki over Savannah Energy affair

Washington and Doha increasingly concerned about threat posed by armed groups in Libya

CEMAC weakened by hiatus at top of commission

Kinshasa looks to review terms of engagement of EAC regional force

ExxonMobil-Savannah: the behind-the-scenes story of Biya and Déby's feud

Kinshasa awaiting $400m World Bank disbursement for road works

Beveraggi gains upper hand over Katumbi in NB Mining Africa dispute

Spotlight N'Djamena justifies ExxonMobil asset nationalisation at Savannah Energy's expense

FATF-affiliated action group holds out hope for more World Bank aid

Macron's ruling majority falls out over top Francophonie job

Savannah Energy unaffected by row with junta over ExxonMobil asset transfer

French defence minister Lecornu plans trip to N'Djamena

Spotlight Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

Mahamat Idriss Déby expected in Bangui to signal grand reconciliation

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Turkish defence flagships cash in on N'Djamena's need for drones and aircraft

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N'Djamena justifies ExxonMobil asset nationalisation at Savannah Energy's expense

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Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules