Bharti Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal has summoned his right-hand man in Africa Raghunath Mandava to weigh up the worth of his Kenyan business following Nairobi's request the company give up 30% of its capital to Kenyan businesses by 2024. [...]
With the social housing construction market in full swing, particularly in the Skikda and Boumerdès provinces, Groupe Bourouag Construction's activity has skyrocketed, partly thanks to the political involvement of some of its members. [...]
Western Sahara business expert Claude Fraissinet has offered to open a committee of Emmanuel Macron's party in Dakhla. He wants to run the office with Mirelle Malbos, owner of a tourism business with Mohammed Vi's cousin Princess Noufissa El Yacoubi. [...]
Mohamed Ali Al Darrat, the newly appointed head of the LFB, will remain Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba's special envoy to the United States, where he recently facilitated the signing of a new lobbying contract between Tripoli and Mercury Public Affairs. [...]
The French major says it has suspended the preliminary process of drilling a new well on its South African block to allow it to focus on two existing discoveries. But the move is actually aimed at stepping up pressure on Pretoria. [...]
A former employee of Swiss trader Gunvor admitted in early April that he paid nearly $22m in bribes to Ecuadorian officials between 2012 and 2019 to win contracts with the state-run oil company. He was working under the supervision of executives who were already in their jobs when a similar case occurred in 2012 in Congo and Ivory Coast. [...]
The country's mining register, which is essential to the growth of its mining sector, is still not online even though it is now several years since software company Trimble was commissioned to prepare the operation. The problem is that the new system has not yet been updated to take account of the latest legislation. [...]
Just after former head of state Joseph Kabila pulled out of the ruling coalition, the country's chamber of mines is mulling whether to review one of his most significant achievements as president, the 2018 mining code, in order to pinpoint its strengths but also its weaknesses. [...]
The Emirati businessman Zayed al Bloushi was recently in Guinea to meet with the authorities to discuss both Ghantoot's projects in the country and its subsidiary MCI's battle with its bauxite partner, Monaco Resources. [...]
#Kampala is reluctant to hand #Kinshasa the reins of the Regional Oversignt Mechanism set up to help them fight the many armed groups active in eastern #DRC. https://t.co/3TKIjaYvek
Moroccan financier Yariv Elbaz's Swiss grain trading firm supplies leading miller #Forafric with wheat from Ukraine and Russia. #Morocco https://t.co/3xfl5siiNx
#Botswana: years after leaving the #mining sector, the businessman and rally driving afficionado Atang Makgekgenene has registered two companies under his own name. A prelude to new investments? (free article) https://t.co/dqY3k7jpq7
