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ETHIOPIA - 28/01/2012
Insecurity rules on the steps of the empire
   After two decades in power, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has still not been able to bring a lasting peace to certain of the country’s peripheral regions and establish regional administrations that are considered legitimate by the local populations. (...)  [728 words]   [$11,2]

REUNION ISLAND - 28/01/2012
Nassimah Dindar joins Bayrou
   The chair of the Reunion Island General Council, Nassimah Dindar, decided a while ago that she was going to call her supporters to vote for François Bayrou, the candidate of the centre party MoDem, in the French presidential election in April and May. (...)  [186 words]   [$7]

FRANCE/MADAGASCAR - 28/01/2012
Jean-Marc Châtaigner
   The French Ambassador in Antananarivo, Jean-Marc Châtaigner, is unlikely to be present at the forthcoming elections in Madagascar, as he would have liked. (...)  [151 words]   [$7]

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LIBYA - 26/01/2012
When unfrozen assets still remain frozen
   The unfreezing of assets doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone’s back in business. Companies that hoped to resume operating in Libya with the payment of billions of dollars that Libya salted away abroad (MC 998) are going to have to wait for a while to pocket their money. (...)  [530 words]   [$11,2]

ALGERIA - 26/01/2012
Raffarin may run into closed doors
   Is former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin likely to get much change when he visits Algiers on February 1? Asked by Nicolas Sarkozy to break the logjam concerning several big investment programs in Algeria (in particular, those of Total, Lafarge and Renault), he could well be snubbed on his arrival. (...)  [225 words]   FREE

NTC Headquarters, Tripoli - 26/01/2012
Can Abdeljalil hold on until June?
   The National Transition Council is going through a bad patch. It is feeling increasingly isolated and a flurry of sit-ins by students in Benghazi, Tripoli and Misurata has begun to seriously hamper its actions. (...)  [236 words]   [$7]

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ALGERIA - 25/01/2012
Phosphates: urgent need for new thinking
   As a result of the Arab Spring, phosphate output plunged in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011 but demand climbed in neighboring Algeria and at Somiphos, the country’s state-owned phosphates producer. But its limited transportation capacity is hobbling Somiphos long-term prospects for growth. (...)  [317 words]   [$11,2]

IRON - 25/01/2012
Indonesia’s PT Bumi takes the offensive
   Active in exploring for iron ore in Mauritania since 2005, Bumi Mauritania SA, an affiliate of Indonesia’s leading coal manufacturer PT Bumi Resources Minerals, has moved into higher gear. (...)  [238 words]   [$7]

GUINEA - 25/01/2012
George Soros
   The key role that American billionaire George Soros is playing with regards Guinea’s leadership has been confirmed (AMI 242/ 245). (...)  [84 words]   [$7]

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GABON - 19/01/2012
Bongo fuels oil sector power struggle
   Preferring to expound on Gabon’s ‘green’ industries, President Ali Bongo Ondimba rarely speaks in public about oil, despite the fact that even though it is diminishing, the country’s output of crude oil remains Gabon’s primary source of revenue. The last time Bongo said anything about the oil industry was in April 2010 at a provincial council of ministers. (...)  [656 words]   [$11,2]

MALI - 19/01/2012
AQIM's unpaid ransom
   Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had promised to pay €15,000 to the individuals who kidnapped Frenchmen Philippe Verdon and Serge Lazarevic on November 24 at the Hotel Dombia in Hombori, near Mopti, it has emerged. (...)  [254 words]   [$7]

CONGO-B - 19/01/2012
Commisimpex keeps on fighting
   Bank accounts held by the Republic of Congo’s Paris embassy have been frozen, unfrozen and frozen again. The embassy’s financial troubles are far from over. (...)  [257 words]   [$7]

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WEST AFRICA - 18/01/2012
Abuja: Turmoil in region’s gasoline market
   Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan promised to do it and he kept the pledge. On January 1, the government did away with subsidies on oil products sold in Nigeria, which amount to between 300,000-400,000 BOE. In response to demonstrations and strikes, Jonathan backtracked slightly on Jan. (...)  [669 words]   [$11,2]

CONGO-K - 18/01/2012
Total lands block 3 at last
   A week after his inauguration, Congo-K president Joseph Kabila honored his word by signing a decree allowing Total to operate block 3 in the country. (...)  [282 words]   [$7]

IVORY COAST - 18/01/2012
Thomas Pogabaha Camara
   Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the managing director of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR), Joel Dervain, was discreetly replaced in December by an executive close to him, Thomas Pogabaha Camara. (...)  [137 words]   [$7]

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