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FRANCE/AFRICA - 17/05/2012
African advisors cross paths as guard changes
   Francois Hollande, who was sworn in as France’s new president on May 15, is keen to get on with hiring his cabinet ministers and advisors and the pointers suggest that that a younger, more feminine and more ethnically diverse team is likely to be put in place. (...)  [630 words]   [$11,2]

MALI - 17/05/2012
Compaore oversteps Malian mark
   The cascade of crises in Mali triggered by the March 22 coup d’etat has seriously tested the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)’s unity. (...)  [265 words]   [$7]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA - 17/05/2012
‘Teodorin’ and Yves Saint Laurent
   President Teodoro Obiang’s son splashed out on numerous items that previously belonged to French couturier Yves Saint Laurent. (...)  [159 words]   [$7]

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NAMIBIA - 16/05/2012
Local firms want share in potential bonanza
   Namibia’s offshore, which some experts consider a geological match with the rich sedimentary basin in Brazil’s territorial waters, has only recently seen the influx of a few majors like BP and Petrobras along with some adventurous explorers such as Chariot Oil & Gas and HRT Oil & Gas. (...)  [693 words]   [$11,2]

GUINEA - 16/05/2012
Hyperdynamics under close watch
   Advisers of president Alpha Conde are keeping a close eye on efforts by the U.S. explorer Hyperdynamics to raise funds, and even examining alternatives if it fails. (...)  [346 words]   [$7]

NIGERIA - 16/05/2012
New stakeholder for Brass
   With less than six months to go before the final investment decision on the Brass LNG project (AEI 673), ConocoPhillips has put its 17% stake in the future liquefaction plant up for sale. (...)  [216 words]   [$7]

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MADAGASCAR - 12/05/2012
Beriziky wants to set TGV aside
   Three years after it ousted President Marc Ravalomanana, the transition regime headed by Andry Rajoelina known as TGV is dragging on and the presidential election that should bring it to an end has little chance of being held this year. (...)  [743 words]   [$11,2]

TANZANIA - 12/05/2012
Separatist fever in Zanzibar
   The radical Islamist movement Jumiki (association for awakening and propagating Islam), generally called Uamsho (awakening) which gathers Salafist Muslim groups, is waging a separatist campaign in Zanzibar whose intensity has been growing steeply over the last few weeks. (...)  [248 words]   [$7]

MOZAMBIQUE - 12/05/2012
Simango family are traders
   The chairman of Liga Moçambicana de Futebol (LMF), Alberto Simango Junior, from Chibuto in Gaza Province, has just formed a new company in which he is the lead shareholder with 70% of the equity, together with his four children, Alberto (10%), Vussi Alberto (10%), Vanda Tieta (5%) and Michael Lucas (5%). (...)  [156 words]   [$7]

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MOROCCO - 10/05/2012
Rabat sees Moscovici at Foreign Ministry
   With little hope of seeing “Morocco’s best friend,” Hubert Vedrine, return to his old post at the French foreign ministry, Rabat would like president-elect Francois Hollande to choose Pierre Moscovici as the next foreign minister. Ever since the Socialist contender swept to power on May 6, the royal palace has fixed its eyes hopefully on Moscovici, who ran Hollande’s victorious presidential campaign. (...)  [515 words]   [$11,2]

TUNISIA - 10/05/2012
French expertise in assisting SMEs
   With the billions that the G8 summit in Deauville promised to the “new Tunisian democracy” taking their time to materialize, the French finance ministry’s Direction Generale du Tresor (DG-Tresor) is trying to jump-start business between the two banks of the Mediterranean. (...)  [222 words]   FREE

DGED headquarters, Rabat - 10/05/2012
“Old-time” terrorism rears its head
   Announced by the Bureau National de la Police Judciaire, a police swoop on May 5 that targeted a terrorist cell “close to AQIM” and resulted in the arrest of the group’s leader identified as Haj Said in Casablanca, was in fact carried out by the foreign intelligence agency Direction Generale des Etudes et de la Documentation (DGED). (...)  [159 words]   [$7]

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BURUNDI - 09/05/2012
Certification: turning up heat on Bujumbura
   In step with rules of a mechanism established by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), a system to certify and trace minerals in Burundi (gold, cassiterite and coltan) is due to start functioning on December 15. However, there are numerous obstacles and if the deadline is missed exports of Burundi’s mining goods could simply be banned. (...)  [280 words]   [$11,2]

PHOSPHATES - 09/05/2012
Schneider Electric to upgrade Togo’s SNPT
   Champagne corks are popping at the French arm of the Schneider Electric group. The branch, chaired by Guy Dufraisse and based at Ruel Malmaison near Paris, won a hard-fought contest for a project to modernize and upgrade infrastructure of Societe Nouvelle des Phosphates du Togo (SNPT). (...)  [162 words]   [$7]

GUINEA - 09/05/2012
EITI’s Bittiger sees a few problems
   Germany’s Tim Bittiger, regional director of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative for West Africa, held talks on May 3-4 with both Guinea’s government and Conakry’s EITI steering committee concerning a number of shortcomings in the financial reporting and validation processes. (...)  [213 words]   FREE

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