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Central Africa

DRC
Pascal Beveraggi tightens grip on Necotrans' mining division

Mining subcontracting firm NB Mining's managing director, Pascal Beveraggi, has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.09.2017

Spotlight | Gabon
Third social tour for Ali‘16!

The fruit of the national dialogue launched in May between the government and parts of the opposition, the new 38-member executive formed by Ali Bongo on 21 August is unlikely to calm the tensions which have been coursing through Gabon [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.08.2017

Congo
How Sassou intends to sweeten the bitter pill

The president has appointed a government tasked with preparing for the austerity measures which the IMF is intending to impose

Subscribers only Politics 30.08.2017

Gabon
The weather's turning grey at Veolia

An alarming level of debt, combined with the short fuse of the Gabonese authorities, has strained relations with the French company Revelations.

Subscribers only Business 30.08.2017

Congo
Bharti Airtel forks out!

The Indian company is set to pay several million euros in compensation to the businessman Daniel Mbere.

Subscribers only Business 30.08.2017

Gabon
Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou, Ali Bongo's ‘southern' card

Just as Omar Bongo did before him by appointing Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge, on 21 August Ali Bongo chose a [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.08.2017

Gabon
Brice Laccruche Alihanga, an Accrombessi ally, installed at the palace

The appointment on 25 August of Brice Laccruche Alihanga as presidential chief of staff marks the return to the seaside [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.08.2017

Guinea, Rwanda
The Satguru agency under scrutiny in Conakry

According to our sources, in the course of August the [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.08.2017

Gabon
SGS on the edge of the precipice

Societe gabonaise de services (SGS), which specialises in private security, [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.08.2017

Spotlight | DRC
Who's hiding behind Oil Quest, future operator of Virunga

In 2015, junior Soco International bowed to mounting pressure from environmentalists and chose to abandon its permit V located in the Virunga National Park. Now, a new company has been negotiating a renewal of the very same permit.

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

DRC
Total treads water on block III against rising political instability

According to our sources, the partners of block III held meetings at Total's headquarters in the La Defense business district [...]

Free access Energy 29.08.2017

Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria
Sinopec chastises Geneva over Addax case

Beijing has made its decision. It is going to close Addax's Genevan, but also UK and US, offices. The move was in no small part precipitated by the Swiss court case, marking an end to Geneva's role as a global oil nucleus.

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

Congo
SNPC's last resort journey to China

Having failed to secure a loan from Saudi Arabia, the Congolese oil company's management have turned to Beijing for help.

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

DRC
New Delhi fishes Katende and Kakobola out of another tight spot

The Indian government is sparing no expense in its endeavour to see the two dams through to completion.

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

Gabon
Minister Houangni's path to become head honcho of oil

Appointed in January 2017 to replace Etienne Ngoubou, Gabon's new minister of oil Pascal Houangni Ambouroue recently won a decisive [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

DRC
Prime minister forces former services expert Sungula into oil

Former officer for the national intelligence bureau (Agence nationale de renseignement, ANR), Jean-Claude Sungula will once again handle oil assignments, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

DRC
Minister Mukena more determined than ever to sell Nganzi

According to our sources, Congolese minister of hydrocarbons, Aime Ngoy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

DRC
KLEC wins another round in bout against Mukena over Kivu methane

The president of Congo-K's supreme court of justice has once [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

Cameroon
International institutions ready to pitch in for Nachtigal

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is currently exploring its options [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

DRC
Kisangani ramps up pressure for its dam

Kisangani, capital of the new Tshopo province, wants its own [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

Chad
Carlton Energy forced into arbitration against CNPC and Cliveden

On August 8, American judge Sim Lake has ordered for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2017

DRC
Influential Chinese mediator Sik Lap Chan joins Amani Gold

A figurehead of Hong Kong's mining investment sector, Sik Lap Chan has been appointed to the board of directors of junior Amani Gold, which develops the Congolese Giro gold project.

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2017

DRC
Dieudonne Mbaya to guide MIBA to safer waters

By appointing Dieudonne Mbaya Tshakani Tshabantu chairman of the board of directors of state-owned diamond producer Societe miniere de Bakwanga [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2017

DRC
Jagger Musesambili sets up mining firm with former US Air Force officer

According to our information, Jagger Musesambili, Congolese businessman and member of the political party Convention pour la Republique et la [...]

Free access Mining 01.08.2017

Cameroon
New torchbearer for investor Clima Dubai

In June, Emirati mining investment firm Clima Dubai Gold, headed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2017

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