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Central Africa

Gabon
Frontline role for Ali Bongo's governors in general election

The new heads of province are tasked with tightening the regime's stranglehold on the forthcoming elections.

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2018

Document | France, Gabon
A battle of nerves over the Pozzo Di Borgo townhouse!

To force the president to pay up, one of the country's creditors is determined to sell the luxury townhouse in Rue de l'Universite. The latest revelations.

Subscribers only Business 19.09.2018

Chad
Qatar becomes Deby's economic lifeline once again

The president is falling back on the Gulf state to get him out of the quagmire. Here's how.

Subscribers only Business 19.09.2018

Chad
Doha muzzles the press

In the midst of their honeymoon with Qatar (see here), [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2018

DRC
Kabila does without MONUSCO's choppers

Joseph Kabila has once again turned down the offer of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2018

Cameroon
Biya snubs the electorate

In power since 1982, 85-year-old Paul Biya seems so assured [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 19.09.2018

Gabon
Orders pour in for Colas as elections approach

In late September, Colas Gabon, the subsidiary of France's Bouygues, [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.09.2018

Cameroon
Sinopec's stealth takeover of Addax Petroleum

Addax's veteran team is slowly being pushed aside to make way for agents of the Chinese major.

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Congo
Noble goes all in for offshore

The unrest in Cameroon's English speaking-region, where Noble Energy operates the Yoyo block, does not seem to have whet the [...]

Free access Energy 18.09.2018

Cameroon
Berkeley Energy jars against crisis in Anglophone region

According to our information, British firm Berkeley Energy's plans to build a mini hydropower plant in southwest Cameroon have been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Congo
Convicted in Gunvor case, Collard lashes out at former employers

The court case has leapt forward with a key confession from Belgian trader Pascal Collard, found guilty of "corruption".

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Congo
Who will SNPC boss R. Ominga appoint head of Perenco JV, Congorep ?

Congorep, the firm 49% controlled by state firm Societe nationale des petroles du Congo (SNPC) is still short of a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Gabon
Hyrdocarbons code reform: why pascal Houangni Ambouroue is now looking at 2019

The preparations for the general elections in October could push [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Congo
Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso tries desperately to cling onto slipping hold of trading sector

Ousted from the executive bodies of the state-run Societe nationale [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

DRC
Kabila touts Busanga merits to bolster Shadary's bid

After surprising investors with his participation at the 3rd edition [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Congo
Paris embassy accounts released

Congo-B ambassador in France Rodolphe Adada is relieved. On September 6, the Paris court of appeal ordered the lifting of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.09.2018

Spotlight | Chad
Cash-stripped Idriss Deby takes a chance on mines with UN funds

As the country's oil resources dwindle to near depletion and the government faces a mounting financial crisis, Chadian president Idriss Deby is trying to find a new source of income in mining with no small help from the United Nations [.

Subscribers only Mining 11.09.2018

DRC
Giovanni Zunino wants to play it safe along Katanga-Zambia copper route

The transporter of ore produced by Glencore and TFM in Katanga, the businessman wants to install video surveillance on his trucks to secure their passage.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 11.09.2018

DRC
Optimal Mining ready to take on Lualaba cobalt in next to no time

The Australian junior has rolled out its team, raised the necessary cash and is now waiting for the green light from up high to start its cobalt projects in the Congo-K.

Subscribers only Mining 11.09.2018

Gabon
Guang Hai Wei leads NoGa Mining to first million tonnes of manganese

Nouvelle Gabon Mining (NoGa Mining) investors have decided to switch up the company's leadership to move into a new phase [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.09.2018

Central Africa
CEMAC mining code in final stages before launch

A work group tasked to validate the mining code to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.09.2018

Document | Gabon
Webcor delivers the regime a hammer blow

Still very much in the economic doldrums (WAN 783), Gabon is also increasingly running into setbacks in the legal action [...]

Subscribers only Business 07.09.2018

Gabon
Berre, Bongo's new sales rep in Moyen-Ogooue

The minister for promoting investment and public-private partnerships since 2016, 51-year-old Madeleine Berre, is Ali Bongo's new representative in Lambarene, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.09.2018

Cameroon
Post-election security for Biya

Could it be that the Cameroonian regime is fearful of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.09.2018

Gabon
A financial downturn for SEEG in 2017

The economic crisis that Gabon has been weathering since 2015 [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.09.2018

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