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13/11/2019 GUINEA -
Simandou: Société Minière de Boké wins former Beny Steinmetz blocks

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Abdeslam Ahizoune plunges into Casablanca’s dustbins

Maroc Télécom chairman Abdeslam Ahizoune has put on a new hat... that of binman! The sudden departure from Morocco of waste collection market leader Derichebourg has forced the former telecommunications minister to fly to the aid of his son. [...]

NIGER 12/11/2019

Uranium: Rosatom full steam ahead while Orano rubber stamps cutbacks

Although the French nuclear group Orano (formerly Areva) has decided to make drastic cuts to its activities in Niger, the Niamey authorities have found a new potential ally to develop the country's uranium resources: Russian industrial Rosatom. Summit sessions [...]

MOZAMBIQUE 01/11/2019

Filipe Nyusi gears up for cabinet reshuffle

His sweeping victory with 73.5% of the vote in the elections of 15 October has strengthened the position of Filipe Nyusi both as president and within FRELIMO, making it an opportune time for him to reshuffle a government [...]

Focus DJIBOUTI 04/11/2019

Ismael Omar Guelleh loses control of the ports, the country's principal resource

NAMIBIA 11/11/2019

Trans-Zambezi railway project getting back on track

Namibian authorities have relaunched the plan to transport minerals by rail from the Copperbelt to Walvis Bay, calling for bids for a feasibility study. [...]

GUINEA Corridors of power 06/11/2019

Snubbed in the West, Alpha Condé turns to Ankara and Moscow

The scrupulously stage-managed ‘jubilant crowds' who welcomed Alpha Condé at Conakry airport on 31 October served not only as a riposte to the opposition demonstrations [...]

Breaking newsGABON 08/11/2019

Office of the president keeps it close to the family

On the night of November 7, the president's office had to have a second go at publishing the full list [...]

AFRICA 05/11/2019

Where are Total's dead zones and what are its golden tickets for Patrick Pouyanné?

There is little chance Total will be tucking into projects of any significance in Congo-B or Gabon in the near future and its Angolan is continuing to fall, [...]

Corridors of power

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ALGERIA 14/11/2019

Azzedine Mihoubi appoints an old-style team

RND party candidate Azzedine Mihoubi has virtually finished composing his campaign team for the December 12 presidential elections. His campaign [...]

DRC 12/11/2019

MIBA waiting on extraction units to confirm revival

After resuming its diamond extraction activities in September, the Congolese state-owned MIBA (Société minière de Bakwanga) may have to already [...]

IVORY COAST 06/11/2019

Guillaume Soro aspires to be leader of united opposition

The former speaker of parliament Guillaume Soro is seeking to rally an anti-Ouattara front behind him for his presidential bid. [...]

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TUNISIA 14/11/2019

Abderraouf Betbaïeb gets "family" presidential post

DRC 12/11/2019

Mining G7 scuppered by returning trio

MALI 06/11/2019

Air France concerned over security breaches at Bamako airport

MAURITANIA SENEGAL 05/11/2019

Why Adnoc's purchase of Kosmos' assets is now ineffective

The conditions for the sale of two-thirds of the US junior's assets in the two countries have changed, bringing the process back to square one. [...]

GREAT LAKES 01/11/2019

Belligerence of Kampala and Kigali backfires

The tensions between Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan opposite number Paul Kagame are assuming worrying dimensions and threatening to destabilise the whole of the Great Lakes region. Investigations by the Indian Ocean Newsletter have revealed the extent to which paranoia [...]

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MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Jaâfar Heikel is partnered by TGCC boss in clinic-building project

High profile media personality Dr. Jaâfar Heikel has consolidated his plans to set up a network of private clinics in [...]

ALGERIA 14/11/2019

RedMed aims to win a share of Petrofac contract in Illizi

Oil industry services giant RedMed is extending its business activities in southern Algeria. The group, which is owned by the [...]

BURKINA FASO 12/11/2019

Ouagadougou pushes local business leaders into Kiéré manganese

While the Burkina Faso authorities want the Tambao project to be taken over by a foreign firm (AMI 449), they [...]

News In Brief

SIERRA LEONE 12/11/2019

Marampa PR battle over, arbitration on

WEST AFRICA 06/11/2019

Société générale active on every front

BENIN |NIGERIA 05/11/2019

Why fuel traffickers don't care about the border closure

SWAZILAND 12/11/2019

Sergey Bozhko, pioneer of gold prospecting in kingdom

The fledgling Muscovite mining firm Africa Gold is preparing to send geologists to Eswatini in November to start exploration on [...]

IVORY COAST 06/11/2019

Concrete gains for Emmanuel Macron ahead of Abidjan visit

In the run-up to Emmanuel Macron's visit to Abidjan in early December, French construction firms are being showered with contracts. [...]

DRC 06/11/2019

Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

The Congolese transport minister Didier Mazenga is shortly due to pay a visit to Toulouse to discuss the purchase of Airbus A220s. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN 05/11/2019

DMWA makes Salva Kiir backtrack on stance against prefinance deals

According to our sources, the South Sudanese president Salva Kiir didn't manage to hold out against pre-financing arrangements for very [...]

MADAGASCAR 01/11/2019

Two rescue plans for one Jirama

The lengthy report produced by the World Bank does not advocate the same rescue plan as that favoured by the Jirama chairman. [...]

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Power brokers

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IVORY COAST 06/11/2019

Marcel Amon Tanoh set to ambush Amadou Gon Coulibaly?

Openly sceptical of the chances of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly if, as seems likely, he runs for president in [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Omar Alaoui moves from the CGEM to ESL & Network

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

Former TFBank chief executive Houssein Mouelhi turns consultant

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Ex-OCP security chief Ahmed Fouad Bahbouhi sets up on his own

NIGERIA 05/11/2019

Why do NNPC's Mele Kyari and minister Sylva only have eyes for Moscow?

NNPC group managing director Mele Kyari and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva joined President Muhammadu Buhari [...]

SOUTH AFRICA TANZANIA 01/11/2019

Cast out by Magufuli, Benno Ndulu is welcomed by Ramaphosa

Last month, the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa appointed the ex-governor of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), Benno Ndulu, as [...]

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MOROCCO Business circles 14/11/2019

ONCF directors set up their own rail engineering company Free

Rail engineering company I.Study, which was set up on September 16 in Rabat, has begun life with a head start [...]

MOROCCO Business circles 14/11/2019

The OCP relaunches Khouribga phosphates security plan piecemeal

The OCP has quietly relaunched its plans to install an [...]

LIBYA Business circles 14/11/2019

Benghazi minister Munir Ali Asr woos Egypt's industrialists

Munir Ali Asr, economy minister in the dissident Benghazi government, [...]

MOROCCO Power brokers 14/11/2019

Bruno Le Maire visits Tangiers for first anniversary of high-speed train

French economy and finance minister Bruno Le Maire is due [...]

MOROCCO Power brokers 14/11/2019

Dakhla set to become "European capital of sport"?

European Capitals and Cities of Sport Federation (ACES) chairman Gian [...]

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Abdeslam Ahizoune plunges into Casablanca’s dustbins

Uranium: Rosatom full steam ahead while Orano rubber stamps cutbacks

Filipe Nyusi gears up for cabinet reshuffle

Ismael Omar Guelleh loses control of the ports, the country's principal resource

Trans-Zambezi railway project getting back on track

Snubbed in the West, Alpha Condé turns to Ankara and Moscow

Office of the president keeps it close to the family

Where are Total's dead zones and what are its golden tickets for Patrick Pouyanné?

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Azzedine Mihoubi appoints an old-style team

MIBA waiting on extraction units to confirm revival

Guillaume Soro aspires to be leader of united opposition

Abderraouf Betbaïeb gets "family" presidential post

Mining G7 scuppered by returning trio

Air France concerned over security breaches at Bamako airport

Why Adnoc's purchase of Kosmos' assets is now ineffective

Belligerence of Kampala and Kigali backfires

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Jaâfar Heikel is partnered by TGCC boss in clinic-building project

RedMed aims to win a share of Petrofac contract in Illizi

Ouagadougou pushes local business leaders into Kiéré manganese

Marampa PR battle over, arbitration on

Société générale active on every front

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Sergey Bozhko, pioneer of gold prospecting in kingdom

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