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Spotlight | Djibouti
THE CARROT AND THE STICK

The simultaneous arrival in Djibouti last week of a "high level" French political delegation and a "heavyweight" World Bank and International Monetary Fund mission is an eye-opener on the way that tasks are being distributed in the matter of the [...]

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Kenya
IMF TALKS RESUME

A joint International Monetary Fund and World Bank mission is due in Nairobi to discuss resumption of financial aid talks [...]

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Spotlight | Kenya
STILL A GOOD CHANCE OF GOING BANKRUPT

The approval by the International Monetary Fund management committee on December 17 of the conclusions of the negotiations with the Kenyan government on Article IV of the IMF Statutes (ION 874) has lifted the last obstacle to the resumption of [.

Subscribers only Politics 24.12.1999

Spotlight | Africa, United States
TIME FOR TRANSPARENCY

In denouncing the secretive practices of the oil industry in its report "A Crude Awakening" (AEM 265), Global Witness has undoubtedly put paid to the impression created by its previous report on diamonds that it was banging away exclusively at [.

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1999

Kenya
HAIR'S BREADTH FROM CASH CRISIS

The Kenyan government is moving heaven and earth with its fund donors to find a way to finance its budget [...]

Subscribers only 18.12.1999

Spotlight | Mozambique
ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Another mandate for presidential-candidate Joaquim Chissano, whose re-election in the face of competition from rival runner Afonso Dhlakama seemed assured as the December 3-4 presidential election approached, will be sharply influenced by the equilibrium between his FRELIMO (governmental) party and [.

Subscribers only Politics 04.12.1999

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

The Chad government signed a preliminary accord with Vivendi to take over management of the Societe Tchadienne d'Electricitre et d'Eau [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Ethiopia
BORDER-BUST COST IS HIGH

The World Bank partnership group is currently putting the finishing touches to the Public Expenditure Review of Ethiopia which details [...]

Subscribers only 09.10.1999

Spotlight | Kenya
LEAKEY ON A TIGHTROPE

The 'saviours of the economy' team led by civil service chief Richard Leakey has run into its first reverse by failing to persuade the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to normalize their relations with Kenya.

Subscribers only Politics 09.10.1999

Zimbabwe
TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

The Zimbabwe government and the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) have just submitted a draft of a new System Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.1999

Cameroon, Chad
WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

With the pipeline project between Doba and Kribi coming up before the board in mid-October (AEM 258) the World Bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.1999

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Following the IMF's lead, the World Bank will on September 13 present a third structural adjustment credit line for Zimbabwe [...]

Subscribers only 04.09.1999

Spotlight | Kenya
BARELY A THREE-MONTH HONEYMOON

Richard Leakey, the man Kenyan head of state Daniel arap Moi chose in July to lead Kenya's civil service, can maybe reckon on three months to prove he and his team are up to the job of cleaning out the [.

Subscribers only Politics 04.09.1999

Cameroon, Chad
THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

An obstacle to the funding of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline in the form of a U.S. bill named "Demilitarization for Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Spotlight | Madagascar
ONE STEP FORWARD BUT TWO STEPS BACK

The counsels of firmness that World Bank official Michael Sarris delivered to Madagascar's prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo fell flat (ION 862) and striking workers at the state-owned petroleum products utility Solima managed to hold out against the government, infuriating head [.

Subscribers only Politics 26.06.1999

Zimbabwe
HOW MURERWA REASSURED GONDWE

When the African director of the International Monetary Fund, Goodall Gondwe, met the Zimbabwean minister of finance Herbert Murerwa in [...]

Subscribers only 12.06.1999

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Chad president Idriss Deby flew to Washington on May 24 to voice his concern over delays in the Doba-Kribi pipeline project to World Bank president James Wolfensohn. Cautious, Wolfenson met earlier in the morning with representatives from three environmental organizations, [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

Tanzania
IMF DIDN'T SEE THE GAP

When International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials approved an enhanced structural adjustment facility for Tanzania in January, they seriously underestimated that [...]

Subscribers only 08.05.1999

Madagascar
ETERNAL PROBLEM OF FISCAL REVENUE

Madagascar's fiscal revenues were, again at the end of March, well below objectives fixed by the International Monetary Fund and [...]

Subscribers only 24.04.1999

Nigeria
KADUNA SLATED FOR PRIVATIZATION

President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo claimed there was no reason for rushing to privatize state-owned companies when he with met business leaders [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.03.1999

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Of the three regional gas or gas-electricity projects that could be completed by the end of the decade in sub-Saharan Africa the West African Gas Pipeline (WAPG) based on reserves in Nigeria, where 2 billion cu.

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.1998

Cameroon
IMF AGAIN DEMANDS AUDIT OF SNH

The IMF committee that is following up application of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.12.1998

Madagascar
NEW PLANS WITH IMF

The joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund mission which is in Antananarivo from November 7 to 17 is expected [...]

Subscribers only 14.11.1998

Benin
WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

The World Bank affiliate International Development Association will shortly approve [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.11.1998

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Ten companies will submit bids when an invitation to tender is issued next week for the privatization of the state-owned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.1998

Djibouti
FRENCH TREASURY STRAIGHT IN ITS BOOTS

The French government financial mission which went to Djibouti at the end of September, soon after the visit of delegation [...]

Subscribers only 17.10.1998

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE DELAYED

No fundamental problem appears to stand in the way of an agreement between Cameroon and the World Bank on the Chad-Kribi oil pipeline and the need to protect the environment and foster economic and social development, according to Patrice Mandengabassa, [.

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Cameroon, Chad
NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

The World Bank is to stage new negotiations before the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

The second phase of the Oso development project centered on the production of NGL has been commissioned. Output began at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Tanzania
YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

The financial package for the Songo Songo project will be put together completely at the end of 1998, AEM learned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Zimbabwe
IMF LETTER TO MUGABE

On the eve of the International Monetary Fund mission in Zimbabwe this week, the IMF resident representative in Harare, Roberto [...]

Subscribers only 11.07.1998

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

The privatization programme for Madagascar's public-sector enterprises has just been updated by the World Bank with a new timetable dated [...]

Subscribers only 27.06.1998

Chad
GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

A "summit of the seven poorest countries" organized by the Greens on June 12 in the European Parliament's building in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Spotlight | Africa
ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

If Bill Richardson is mostly known for his peacemaking skills as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations – he exercised them with talent in Bosnia and in more controversial fashion in the Congo-Kinshasa imbroglio – his appointment on June 18 [.

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Tanzania
IMF CONTENT

The International Monetary Fund mission led by Jerry Johnson (a deputy manager on the Africa Desk) which went to Dar [...]

Subscribers only 30.05.1998

Senegal
HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Hydro Quebec has just confirmed in Dakar that it is in the running to become Senelec's strategic partner following the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.1998

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

The Chad-Cameroon oi development and pipeline project that are awaiting the green light for IDA loans - the total was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.1998

Madagascar
SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

The consultant Price Waterhouse who prepared the privatization programme of Solima (petroleum products) according to a cession formula known as [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.1998

Madagascar
MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

The World Bank mission which went to Antananarivo last month is insisting that the government must privatize the state-owned banks [...]

Subscribers only 14.03.1998

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

The Exxon group which operates in Chad's oil project and in the TOTCO and COTCO companies that will operate the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.1998

Spotlight | Madagascar
WORLD BANK SECRETS

On Madagascar, implementation of the economic reform programme passes by firm spoonfeeding at all stages of local institutions (presidency, prime minister's office, economic ministries, etc) by International Monetary Fund and World Bank representatives. Objective: to neutralize all political interference by [.

Subscribers only 21.02.1998

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Work on the pipeline that is to link the Doba oil basin in southern Chad to the future terminal at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1998

Ivory Coast
IMPACT OF CRUDE OIL PRICE SLUMP

The impact from the slump in crude oil prices will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.1998

Gabon
IMPACT OF CRUDE PRICE DROP

The impact from the drop in crude oil prices has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.1998

Niger
IMF PUSHES FOR EXPLORATION

The timetable for Niger's structural adjustment program approved by the IMF calls for initiatives to identify "high potential areas" for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Algeria
GHADAMES BASIN THE ENGINE OF GROWTH

More than ever, the Ghadames basin has provided the engine for the rise in Algeria's oil production. Exploration on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Spotlight | Canada
UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Road repairs around Kinshasa and humanitarian missions were all that Laurent Kabila's government won from the "Friends of the Congo" conference organized under the auspices of the World Bank on Dec. 3-4 in Brussels. The "stabilization and recovery" plan prepared [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Madagascar
TAKING A CLOSE LOOK

An International Monetary Fund and World Bank joint delegation visit to Antananarivo (October 15 to November 7) is not expected [...]

Subscribers only 08.11.1997

Madagascar
GLENCORE PROJECTS

Glencore, a large Swiss-based petroleum trader, recently approached a Paris bank to propose a financial package for Madagascar. The deal [...]

Subscribers only 25.10.1997

Spotlight | Ethiopia
SOFTLY, SOFTLY

After having steadfastly refused to open up its telecommunications to the private sector, the Ethiopian government may now have to soften its stand following strong pressure from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (an IMF delegation is expected in [.

Subscribers only 11.10.1997

Kenya
NEW DOWNSTREAM HITCHES

A project to build a terminal for LPG imports has moved ahead with an agreement signed by the Kenya Pipeline [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.1997

Comoros islands
PINNED DOWN

At the end of April prime minister Ahmed Abdou dissolved the technical committee responsible for the structural adjustment programme (in [...]

Subscribers only 10.05.1997

Niger
NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Nigelec has been marked down for IMF-World Bank-type privatization along with the water company SNE and oil storage firm Sonidep. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.1997

Ethiopia
CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

An Ethiopian company has kicked off a project to extract and process up to 65,000 tons of liquid petroleum products [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.1997

Ethiopia
TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

Ethiopia's energy and mines ministry signed two contracts for studies last month with BEICIP-Franlab, the consultancy and international engineering unit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.1997

Spotlight | Africa
FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Forty four projects had been accepted by the end of 1996 or were at an advanced stage in the French Global Environment Fund's (FFEM) pipeline. The projects slated to receive grants from the Fund organized by the Caisse Francaise de [.

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.1997

Tanzania
LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

The liberalization of Tanzania's oil industry, which has long been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.1997

Gabon
OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Ocelot Energy won two licences to be operated on a production sharing basis in Gabon following negotiations that were already [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Sao Tome and Principe
FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

A project to establish a free trade zone in Agulhas [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Equatorial Guinea
SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

As Equatorial Guinea is a small country with rich oil prospects several big groups are scrambling to install the first [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Uganda
PROMISES, PROMISES

During the meeting of the World Bank consultative group on Uganda, held in Paris on November 21 and 22, Uganda [...]

Subscribers only 07.12.1996

Uganda
DONORS SEEM FAVOURABLE

A majority of Uganda's international fund donors retain a favourable stance to the Kampala authorities, having noted with satisfaction that [...]

Subscribers only 23.11.1996

South Africa
RAPPROCHEMENT WITH IMF

During the recent World Bank and International Monetary Fund AGMs [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.1996

Zambia
BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

The government has completed the privatization of British Petroleum Zambia [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.1996

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Nigeria has managed to fend off the threat of oil or other sanctions with for a selective release of jailed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.1996

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, has begun work on three projects for loans to Ethiopia, [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

Ethiopia
MOVING TOWARDS IMF ACCORD

The Ethiopian authorities are believed to be on the point of reaching agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a [...]

Subscribers only 15.06.1996

Mozambique
WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

A Portuguese bid to acquire all or part of the shares of the government and/or Lonrho in the Beira-Harare pipeline [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.05.1996

Mali
TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

The World Bank has announced approval by the International Development Association (IDA) of a $23 million loan that had been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

Djibouti
IMF PROGRAMME

In an aide-mémoire of March 28 to the director general of the International Monetary Fund, Michel Camdessus, the governor of [...]

Subscribers only 11.05.1996

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

The timetable will be honored, as with electricity-generation, but the privatization of Congo's downstream oil sector will leave a government [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.05.1996

Spotlight | Djibouti
SWING TO AUSTERITY

The visit of French cooperation minister Jacques Godfrain to Djibouti from April 15 to 17 and the simultaneous decision of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) board in Washington on April 15 to grant the Djibouti government a US$6.

Subscribers only 20.04.1996

Spotlight | Mozambique
DR. IMF'S CASTOR-OIL

Mozambique's programme of macro-economic reforms (negotiated with the International Monetary Fund in March for submission to the management committee in May, to get a new three-year enhanced structural adjustment facility) leans heavily on a restrictive fiscal and monetary policy.

Subscribers only 13.04.1996

Spotlight | Mozambique
GET THINGS MOVING

The approaching World Bank consultative group on Mozambique has relaunched the debate on cleaning up Mozambique's state-owned companies. International fund donors are expected to use the Paris meeting (April 17 and 18) to jog the Maputo authorities over their failure [.

Subscribers only 30.03.1996

Kenya
STEP BY STEP REFORMS

A meeting of the consultative group of donors for Kenya held in Paris under the auspices of the World Bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.1996

Tanzania
GOVERNMENT STILL RULES OUT TIPER PRIVATIZATION

Energy and mines minister William Shija told staff at TIPER [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.1996

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Work is shortly to begin on the liquefaction plant that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) is to build at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Madagascar
TWO-MISSION BALANCE SHEET

The 1996 budget was the principal problem raised by officials of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank during their [...]

Subscribers only 23.12.1995

Kenya
THE POINT WITH DONORS

The meeting of the World Bank consultative group on Kenya which was to have been held in Paris at the [...]

Subscribers only 11.11.1995

Tanzania
AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

After four years of studies and negotiations, an agreement to proceed with the Songo Songo gas and electricity project was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.1995

Algeria
WORLD BANK LOAN

The World Bank is considering a $75 million loan to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.1995

Madagascar
GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

The opening of Madagascar's electricity sector to "private capital" has been underscored in a so-called "outline document for economic policy" [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.1995

Madagascar
NEW REFORM TIMETABLE

Madagascar's delegation to the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Washington flew off carrying the government's economic [...]

Subscribers only 14.10.1995

Djibouti
IMF QUESTIONS

The International Monetary Fund mission which was in Djibouti from September 20 to October 3 has demanded additional budget economy [...]

Subscribers only 14.10.1995

Nigeria
REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

An agreement to build a regional gas pipeline tying Benin, Togo and Ghana into the fields in Nigeria's Escravos basin [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Congo
PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

AEM understands that the World Bank is counting on Congo's privatization process being completed by next June at latest. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Spotlight | Kenya
KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

The Kenyan government and the Kenya Power & Lighting Corporation (KPLC) unveiled their energy projects, loan requirements and the reforms they've already undertaken during a conference with donors on Sept. 11-12 in Paris. But no fresh funds were offered and [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Spotlight | Kenya
ELATION FOLLOWS DEPRESSION

The Kenyan government's cyclothymic relations with its international fund donors have just swung into a new phase of elation. After facing the running fire of political criticism from the donors in Paris on July 20 (ION N° 682), the Nairobi [.

Subscribers only 09.09.1995

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Kwesi Botchwey may owe his downfall to a drillship. The dismissal of Botchwey, a top-rate finance minister who played a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Marked on June 10 by the largest opposition demonstration seen in Antananarivo since last year, the campaign for the impeachment of the head of state Albert Zafy, which opposition MPs are now threatening to continue inside parliament, has rekindled the [.

Subscribers only 17.06.1995

Morocco
IMPORTS MONOPOLY TO END

With the government poised to privatize the country's two refineries at the end of this year, draft legislation putting an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.1995

Spotlight | Cameroon
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

"There is a lack of openness in the oil sector" and a drop in receipts appears inevitable, confirmed a report entitled "Macro-Economic Survey of Cameroon after the Devaluation" commissioned by the French cooperation ministry. The report resulted from a mission [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.1995

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Mauritius' ministers of finance (Rama Sithanen) and energy (Swaley Kassenaly) are expected to be in Paris next week for a [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
A WORLD BANK CATALOGUE

Pierre Demangel, who holds the Malagasy dossier at World Bank headquarters in Washington, apparently doesn't hold a grudge against prime minister Francisque Ravony although the latter was targetting Demangel - without naming him - when he commented on April 6 [.

Subscribers only 21.04.1995

Spotlight | North Africa, West Europe
EUROPE-MED ENERGY POOL

Energy cooperation in the Mediterranean will figure high on the agenda at a conference in Barcelona on Nov. 12 between the foreign ministers of the 15 European Union countries and 13 nations on the southern and eastern rims of the [.

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.1995

Madagascar
RAVONY ROOTS FOR IMF

Prime minister Francisque Ravony has come out again for his preference for dialogue with the International Monetary Fund, which he [...]

Subscribers only 17.04.1995

Congo
GOVERNMENT SELLS ELF CONGO STAKE

No sooner had a law been adopted to allow the government to sell its stake in Elf Congo than the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Congo
END OF THE OIL-STATE

The government last week took a major step towards privatization as championed by the IMF and World Bank when it [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Cameroon
OIL REFORM UNDERWAY

The International Development Association will decide in April whether to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
BID TO REVIVE EXPLORATION

Madagascar intends to open all of its sedimentary zones to oil and gas exploration this year with a revised legislative framework allowing for production sharing accords for the first time instead of the so-called "participation" agreements which prevailed under the [.

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Tanzania
TIPER'S BACK TO THE WALL

The World Bank has made the closure of the Tanzania-Italy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

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Kenya IMF TALKS RESUME

Spotlight | Kenya STILL A GOOD CHANCE OF GOING BANKRUPT

Spotlight | Africa, United States TIME FOR TRANSPARENCY

Kenya HAIR'S BREADTH FROM CASH CRISIS

Spotlight | Mozambique ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Cameroon, Chad DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Ethiopia BORDER-BUST COST IS HIGH

Spotlight | Kenya LEAKEY ON A TIGHTROPE

Zimbabwe TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

Cameroon, Chad WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

Zimbabwe WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Spotlight | Kenya BARELY A THREE-MONTH HONEYMOON

Cameroon, Chad THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

Spotlight | Madagascar ONE STEP FORWARD BUT TWO STEPS BACK

Zimbabwe HOW MURERWA REASSURED GONDWE

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Tanzania IMF DIDN'T SEE THE GAP

Madagascar ETERNAL PROBLEM OF FISCAL REVENUE

Nigeria KADUNA SLATED FOR PRIVATIZATION

Spotlight | West Africa LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Cameroon IMF AGAIN DEMANDS AUDIT OF SNH

Madagascar NEW PLANS WITH IMF

Benin WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

Madagascar PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Djibouti FRENCH TREASURY STRAIGHT IN ITS BOOTS

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE DELAYED

Cameroon, Chad NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

Nigeria OSO II IN SERVICE

Tanzania YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

Zimbabwe IMF LETTER TO MUGABE

Madagascar PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

Chad GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

Spotlight | Africa ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

Tanzania IMF CONTENT

Senegal HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

Madagascar SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

Madagascar MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

Spotlight | Madagascar WORLD BANK SECRETS

Cameroon, Chad KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Ivory Coast IMPACT OF CRUDE OIL PRICE SLUMP

Gabon IMPACT OF CRUDE PRICE DROP

Niger IMF PUSHES FOR EXPLORATION

Algeria GHADAMES BASIN THE ENGINE OF GROWTH

Spotlight | Canada UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Madagascar TAKING A CLOSE LOOK

Madagascar GLENCORE PROJECTS

Spotlight | Ethiopia SOFTLY, SOFTLY

Kenya NEW DOWNSTREAM HITCHES

Comoros islands PINNED DOWN

Niger NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Ethiopia CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

Ethiopia TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

Spotlight | Africa FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Tanzania LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

Gabon OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Sao Tome and Principe FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

Equatorial Guinea SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

Uganda PROMISES, PROMISES

Uganda DONORS SEEM FAVOURABLE

South Africa RAPPROCHEMENT WITH IMF

Zambia BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

Nigeria PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Ethiopia THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Ethiopia MOVING TOWARDS IMF ACCORD

Mozambique WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

Mali TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

Djibouti IMF PROGRAMME

Congo PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

Spotlight | Djibouti
THE CARROT AND THE STICK

Kenya
IMF TALKS RESUME

Spotlight | Kenya
STILL A GOOD CHANCE OF GOING BANKRUPT

Spotlight | Africa, United States
TIME FOR TRANSPARENCY

Kenya
HAIR'S BREADTH FROM CASH CRISIS

Spotlight | Mozambique
ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Ethiopia
BORDER-BUST COST IS HIGH

Spotlight | Kenya
LEAKEY ON A TIGHTROPE

Zimbabwe
TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

Cameroon, Chad
WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Spotlight | Kenya
BARELY A THREE-MONTH HONEYMOON

Cameroon, Chad
THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

Spotlight | Madagascar
ONE STEP FORWARD BUT TWO STEPS BACK

Zimbabwe
HOW MURERWA REASSURED GONDWE

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Tanzania
IMF DIDN'T SEE THE GAP

Madagascar
ETERNAL PROBLEM OF FISCAL REVENUE

Nigeria
KADUNA SLATED FOR PRIVATIZATION

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Cameroon
IMF AGAIN DEMANDS AUDIT OF SNH

Madagascar
NEW PLANS WITH IMF

Benin
WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Djibouti
FRENCH TREASURY STRAIGHT IN ITS BOOTS

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PIPELINE DELAYED

Cameroon, Chad
NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

Tanzania
YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

Zimbabwe
IMF LETTER TO MUGABE

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

Chad
GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

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ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

Tanzania
IMF CONTENT

Senegal
HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

Madagascar
SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

Madagascar
MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

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WORLD BANK SECRETS

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Ivory Coast
IMPACT OF CRUDE OIL PRICE SLUMP

Gabon
IMPACT OF CRUDE PRICE DROP

Niger
IMF PUSHES FOR EXPLORATION

Algeria
GHADAMES BASIN THE ENGINE OF GROWTH

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UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Madagascar
TAKING A CLOSE LOOK

Madagascar
GLENCORE PROJECTS

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SOFTLY, SOFTLY

Kenya
NEW DOWNSTREAM HITCHES

Comoros islands
PINNED DOWN

Niger
NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Ethiopia
CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

Ethiopia
TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

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FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Tanzania
LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

Gabon
OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Sao Tome and Principe
FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

Equatorial Guinea
SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

Uganda
PROMISES, PROMISES

Uganda
DONORS SEEM FAVOURABLE

South Africa
RAPPROCHEMENT WITH IMF

Zambia
BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Ethiopia
MOVING TOWARDS IMF ACCORD

Mozambique
WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

Mali
TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

Djibouti
IMF PROGRAMME

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

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SWING TO AUSTERITY

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DR. IMF'S CASTOR-OIL

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GET THINGS MOVING

Kenya
STEP BY STEP REFORMS

Tanzania
GOVERNMENT STILL RULES OUT TIPER PRIVATIZATION

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Madagascar
TWO-MISSION BALANCE SHEET