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Central Africa

DRC
Bemba’s DGSE contact back at work again

With the opposition scheduled to pick a would-be successor to Joseph Kabila, former DGSE operative Jean-Marc Gadoullet has touched base with his one-time protégé, Jean-Pierre Bemba.

Subscribers only Politics 14.06.2017

Congo
Sassou faces election as happy head of the household

Unwavering in the face of conflict in the Pool region, the president has placed most of his children and other relatives on the list for upcoming elections.

Subscribers only Politics 14.06.2017

Spotlight | Congo
Iskandar Safa’s oil package

Burdened by debt that has its oil production tied up for the next five years (AEI 778), Congo-B has found an unexpected saviour in Iskandar Safa. The Lebanese industrialist and owner of Constructions mecaniques de Normandie (CMN), has offered to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2017

DRC
Ministers come and go but Muganza's netwoks stay put

Behind the changing line-up of hydrocarbon ministers, the country’s oil sector is still under the thumb of the same powerful networks.

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2017

Gabon
Mboumba: GOC preens feathers to seduce in Moscow

Ready to do what it takes to diversify his partners, president Ali Bongo’s administration is forging oil ties with the powers-at-be in Moscow.

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2017

Cameroon
All-clear for Nyong power plant workers

Two years after signing a MoU with Cameroonian water and energy minister, local law firm Nyong Power Plants Corp (NPPC) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2017

DRC
Will STS’s Belgians be driven out of Kivu?

A group of Kivu citizens, led by Gilbert Kambale, a leading figure of Beni’s civil society, have been demonstrating against [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2017

Gabon
Gabon Oil Co’s daylight robbery of the state jewels

In late May, Gabon’s minister of economy Regis Immongault took [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2017

Congo
Option to relocate locals near Sintoukola mine under scrutiny

Hoping the country can become a hub for Africa’s potash production (AMI 375), the Congo-B administration has been bending over [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

DRC
George Forrest wants second bout against Gecamines in Brussels

The Belgian-Congolese magnate is contesting the Brussels court’s decision, which has stated it does not have the jurisdiction to rule on his dispute with Gecamines over Katanga cobalt.

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

DRC
George Soros takes Kinshasa under his wing

After having invested in mining governance in Guinea, American billionaire George Soros, is ready to tackle another African giant in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

DRC
Deputy Patrick Bologna takes consolation in family mines

After failing to pick up the land matters portfolio under Bruno Tshibala’s new administration, Patrick Bologna, Kinshasa’s representative at the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

DRC
Moise Katumbi plays natural resources card

To convince the United States to back his candidacy, Moise [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

DRC
Apollinaire Bulindi leading the pack in mining security

Shortly after the latest incident in which a small-scale miner [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

DRC
Afridex and Norinco determined to keep monopoly

Congolese mining explosives firm Africaine d'explosifs (Afridex), headed by admiral [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

Congo
Sassou to decide Mokoko's fate before legislative elections

Congo-B's president wants to haul his main adversary into court before the election even though the evidence against him isn't all that strong.

Subscribers only Politics 31.05.2017

Cameroon
Rather gloomy national holiday in Paris

It can hardly be said that the 200 guests who gathered in the Pavillon Dauphine in Paris on May 20 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.05.2017

Gabon
Bilie By Nze, Bongo’s real mouthpiece

Since his contested election to a new term in office as Gabon’s president last August, Ali Bongo still hasn’t shaken [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.05.2017

Chad
French spies foil attempt to swindle Deby

The West Africa Newsletter has learned exclusively that Idriss Deby was the prime target of a "fake identity" scam hatched [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.05.2017

Central African Republic
Chinese in diamond stampede

Companies from Beijing are jostling one another for gems now that the diamond market is gradually returning to normal.

Subscribers only Business 31.05.2017

Congo
Denis Christel Nguesso places his man in top police post

The struggle for influence is still in full swing at the presidential palace between Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso, who's the deputy [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.05.2017

Congo
Stella Sassou Nguesso dons feminist mantle

A municipal counsellor in Brazzaville, 43-year-old Stella Sassou Nguesso, one of the younger daughters of president Denis Sassou-Nguesso, has been [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.05.2017

Chad
Gimar & Cie cast covetous eye at N'djamena

Headed Philippe Marini, a former senator and mayor of Compiegne [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.05.2017

Gabon
Mboumba to manage domestic debt

President Ali Bongo has put junior economy minister Noel Mboumba [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.05.2017

Angola, Rwanda
Isabel dos Santos sparks new power connection with Kigali

The signing of an important contract between Portuguese firm Efacec and Rwanda is a sign relations are warming between the Angolan and Rwandan authorities.

Subscribers only Energy 30.05.2017

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