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FRANCE/SEYCHELLES - 26/05/2012
Bringing in the tourists without direct flights
   The Seychelles government is deeply worried by the sharp fall in the number of tourists from France, and so sent a delegation to Paris on 21 May to try and give tour operators and airlines a boost. The Minister for Tourism, Alain St Ange, his colleague Joël Morgan (interior and transport), the chairman of the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA), David Savy, the CEO of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB), Elsia Grandcourt, all went along on this lightning visit to try and stem the erosion of French clientele. (...)  [749 words]   [$11,2]

AFRICA/FRANCE - 26/05/2012
Women lead the field
   When African executives or diplomats contact the French administration from now on, they will have a high probability that their request will be handled by a woman. (...)  [256 words]   [$7]

COMOROS ISLANDS - 26/05/2012
Al Sharif Group applies pressure
   The still rivalry between the Saudi Al Sharif Group and the Sudanese Petrolines to rescue Ma-Mwe has no immediate effect on the islands’ serious energy crisis. (...)  [283 words]   FREE

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LIBYA - 24/05/2012
Hiring season for corporate lawyers
   The race is on in London, New York, Dubai and Paris to hire a new generation of Libyan lawyers trained abroad but registered with the Tripoli bar. In recruiting these potential legal eagles - all close to Libya’s new government - international corporate law groups hope to take part in recovering Libya’s frozen assets. (...)  [550 words]   [$11,2]

TUNISIA - 24/05/2012
Paris & Berlin in clash on debt
   Germany’s write-off of Tunisia’s debt to Berlin has sparked a mini crisis with Paris. Ever since Germany’s ambassador to Tunis, Horst-Wolfram Keril, announced in January that Berlin would erase Tunisia’s EUR 60 million debt to Germany, French diplomats have been discreetly working to see that Tunis doesn’t ask similar measures from its other European partners. (...)  [204 words]   FREE

NTC Headquarters, Tripoli - 24/05/2012
How Tunis “sold” Mahmoudi
   Tunisia’s extradition of Baghdadi Mahmoudi, the last prime minister of the Gaddafi era, to Tripoli is expected to take place after Libya’s elections on June 19. (...)  [170 words]   [$7]

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AFRICA - 23/05/2012
Glencore pursues strategy switch in mines
   Once an ultra secret trader in raw materials - its discretion made the reputation of its founder Marc Rich -Glencore International Plc is transforming itself across the board. After beginning to invest upstream in the mining sector and floating on the stock exchange a year ago in order to inject a degree of transparency into its image, the Switzerland-based company is poised to negotiate infrastructure and commodity accords directly with governments, as Chinese groups began to do a few years back. (...)  [289 words]   [$11,2]

SOUTH AFRICA - 23/05/2012
Coal: Malelane pre-feasibility study by year’s end
   Less than a year after floating on London’s AIM, Ferrex Plc has just wound up a scoping study on its blue ribbon Malelane iron ore project in South Africa. (...)  [208 words]   FREE

CONGO-K - 23/05/2012
SNDL stakes its claim on Lupatapata diamonds
   A new company named Societe Miniere de Diamant de Lupatapata (SMDL) recently began exploration work on a 50 sq.km. license that bears the same name in Eastern Kasai in Congo-K. (...)  [211 words]   [$7]

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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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