There has been a marked uptick in Western consultants looking to pay calls on the transitional government since Idriss Déby's death. Chad's intelligence agencies and those of its allies' have been busy blocking their way. [...]
The Rwandan soldiers deployed to Cabo Delgado have already fired shots at the Islamist-linked group whose actions forced TotalEnergies to bring the construction of its gas liquefaction facility to a standstill. [...]
Angolan companies with sufficient funds to develop blocks remain few and far between. As such the Angolan administration must make do with bids from firms with strong ties to the former regime. [...]
Sacked in 2016 during a major restructuring of Metorex, a company owned by China's Jinchuan Group, its former director of operations Theunis de Bruyn had been seeking more substantial compensation from his ex-employer on the grounds that Chinese colleagues had been unfairly favoured for management posts. But to no avail: a South African court recently ruled in favour of Metorex. [...]
The Canadian company Golden Star Resources has suffered two major setbacks. Last month it was forced to revise production forecasts for its Wassa gold mine in Ghana downwards. And since the middle of this month it has been mired in a dispute with the buyer of the other deposit it owned in the country, Bogoso-Prestea. [...]
Winning Consortium Simandou has just created a dedicated aviation subsidiary which will incorporate the aircraft of its shareholder specialising in mining logistics, UMS. However, the latter is still desperately waiting to recover one of its aircraft, which was "hijacked" in 2019. [...]
📣The Congolese president has entrusted @DidierBudimbu with the highly sensitive mission of elucidating the circumstances in which Dan Gertler’s firm Nessergy obtained a permit to explore for oil in waters shared by the #DRC and #Angola back in 2006. https://t.co/Id72eBdUPu
The #US State Department, which has been following the situation in the English-speaking regions of #Cameroon very closely, is weighing the possibility of blocking the visas of several secessionist leaders currently present on American soil. https://t.co/bjOh4DGLlW
AECI, which has filed for arbitration against the #BurkinaFaso government over an import tax dispute, has managed to resolve one of its grievances with the state: the seizure of its bank account. https://t.co/KEbw55janM
