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GABON - 22/05/2013
Emerging nation, or not
   On one hand there is the macro-economic Gabon, whose numbers seem to tell that longed-for African success story: The economy is expected to grow 5.5% in 2013, slower than 7.2% in 2012 but a significant improvement on the annual 2% during Omar Bongo’s era. (...)  [639 words]  

AFRICA/FRANCE - 22/05/2013
Gueant hustles for African business
   Claude Gueant, the former French interior minister, has spent a lot of time in recent months wooing African leaders at home in France and abroad. (...)  [309 words]   FREE

NIGER - 22/05/2013
Issoufou keeps cautious eye on army
   President Mahamadou Issoufou is doing his utmost to keep in check an army that has already overthrown four of the country’s leaders since independence. (...)  [312 words]  

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GHANA - 21/05/2013
Oil advances undercut by politics
   Six months after his election, Ghana’s new president, John Mahama Dramani, hasn’t made the least headway on oil and gas issues. A challenge to his election before the Supreme Court by his leading rival, Nana Afuko-Addo, has held back any important decision, and created a logjam that weighs heavily on the industry. (...)  [660 words]  

MADAGASCAR - 21/05/2013
Total waves goodbye
   Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Total recently decided to withdraw from the Bemolanga permit on Madagascar’s block 3102 which it has operated since 2008. (...)  [260 words]  

CONGO-K - 21/05/2013
Buffet’s son joins Virunga project
   The son of the renowned American billionaire has agreed to help finance power stations in the natural reserve in eastern Congo-K and Rwanda. (...)  [231 words]  

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HORN OF AFRICA - 17/05/2013
British business’s new frontier
   British Prime Minister David Cameron’s reason for holding an international conference on Somalia in London on 7 May, along with an associated business forum the following day, was not only so he could claim success in diplomacy. He mainly wanted to pave the way for his country’s companies to be well placed to win the future reconstruction contracts, and so not leave the field open to the Turkish companies that are already very active in the Horn of Africa (ION 1351). (...)  [723 words]  

DJIBOUTI - 17/05/2013
IOG not yet discussing with opposition in Djibouti
   The BBC’s interview with President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) in the Somali language on 8 May gave a glimmer of hope that negotiations with the opposition would open soon. (...)  [273 words]   FREE

KENYA - 17/05/2013
The generals don’t want Omamo
   Certain Kenyan military leaders are unhappy with the appointment of Raychelle Omamo as defence minister. According to a well-placed military source, these senior officers have already made their disapproval known to the General Chief of Staff, General Julius Karangi. (...)  [167 words]  

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MOROCCO - 16/05/2013
Why king seeks to mend PJD-Istiqlal feud
   Despite a crisis that flared up when the Istiqlal party announced on May 11 it was withdrawing from the coalition government, the split between that party and the moderate Islamist PJD movement looks likely to be smoothed over in talks between their respective bosses, Hamid Chabat and prime minister Abdelilah Benkirane. (...)  [535 words]  

ALGERIA - 16/05/2013
Benyounes on the runway with Vueling
   Son of Algerian senator Mohamed Akli Benyounes and nephew of regional development minister Amara Benyounes , Reda Benyounes is a high flyer in business circles- and in more ways than one. (...)  [195 words]   FREE

Royal Palace, Rabat - 16/05/2013
Who's going to take the fall for Minurso?
   A number of leading dignitaries could become scapegoats of the Minsurso affair even though Rabat managed to eventually save the day. (...)  [176 words]  

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CONGO-K - 14/05/2013
Outcry over new mining legislation
   Mining companies are engaged in an angry tug-of-war with Kinshasa as the government puts the final touches to revisions in a mining code that came into force just 10 years ago. The government deems that the industry doesn’t contribute enough to Congo-K’s budget and thus wants to impose higher taxes. (...)  [292 words]  

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - 14/05/2013
Diamonds on a slippery slope
   Bangui’s diamond industry is under the gun. The object of “increased vigilance” by the Kimberley Process for several weeks, its gems could be suspended by the certification organization in coming days. (...)  [297 words]  

IRON/NICKEL - 14/05/2013
China Railways wins deal in Ivory Coast
   The Ivory Coast government awarded a direct contract without competitive bidding to China Railways on May 4 to build a railway to carry iron and nickel ore from Man in the west to San Pedro port. (...)  [163 words]  

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