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. [...]
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. [...]
The South African manufacturer of mining explosives AECI has initiated arbitration at ICSID with the Burkinabe state, which has seized its bank accounts and brought legal action against it over import duties. [...]
French director Philippe Boisseau has edged away from Carlyle International Energy Partners (CIEP), the oil investment arm of American financial services group @OneCarlyle. #Gabon https://t.co/0aMNFzKH5g
The first buying period for the 2020-21 #cocoa season ended on 31 March and initial results show a major rebalancing between the main buyers. #IvoryCoast https://t.co/4KipB6H0CW
📣 Abuja's decision to remove the Chinese #oil firm over a tax dispute has prompted complaints and threats of litigation. #Nigeria https://t.co/JW5PwiWnEx
