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AFRICA 26/03/2019

What Maurel & Prom's future as a Pertamina offshoot has in store

The city of Manono represents a strategic challenge for lithium exploration. ©Indigo Publications

Focus CONGO-K 25/03/2019

Congolese lithium capital Manono set to come under Kabila clan control

After having reigned over Congo-K for the last 22 years, the Kabila family needs to invent a new future for itself. [...]

TUNISIA 21/03/2019

US to be offered base in return for attack aircraft?

American defence groups are dive-bombing on Tunisia with self-interested backing from the Pentagon. According to our information, two light attack aircraft supply programmes have been launched [...]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Oil 26/03/2019

Gabriel Obiang faced with ExxonMobil dilemma over Zafiro

The American major is free to go but the minister is making life very difficult by blocking any transactions. [...]

SUDAN 22/03/2019

Omar al-Bashir's contortions to remain in power

Bashir's allies have entrusted the Egyptians with the plan to shore up the Sudanese president's grip on power. [...]

CONGO-K 19/03/2019

Tshisekedi's most political of mining advisors

Despite the key role mining plays in Congo-K's economy and the pressing need to develop power to generate growth in the country, the new president Felix Tshisekedi [...]

ANGOLA 19/03/2019

Joao Lourenco sets up mining task force to shake off Dos Santos era

On the back of the diamond sector reform launched in January, Angolan president Joao Lourenco has sunk his [...]

GABON 13/03/2019

Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo anticipates non-return of Ali Bongo

The unprecedented situation in Libreville arising from the president's ill health has tempted the regime to ‘adapt' the constitution without consultation. [...]

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MADAGASCAR 22/03/2019

Heavy oil fuels new standoff between Jirama and Jovena

In the hope of sorting out its unsustainable financial situation (ION 1487), Jirama is seeking to revise its contracts with its suppliers (ION 1493). But this has led to a standoff between the national electricity supplier and Jovena over the [...]

LIBYA 21/03/2019

Fathi Bachagha dreams of being president

Misrati Fathi Bachagha, who was appointed interior minister in Tripoli last October, is using every opportunity to give himself the [...]

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ETHIOPIA 22/03/2019

Troops of Addis and Paris march to same drum

LIBYA 21/03/2019

Oussama al Jouili gets cold shoulder from United Arab Emirates

GUINEA 19/03/2019

Miners chip in $5 million for local development fund

TUNISIA 26/03/2019

The American law firm setting a cracking pace on hydrocarbarons code re-write

GABON 26/03/2019

Dussafu: here's why Gabon Oil Co will now never see its 10%

SOUTH SUDAN 12/03/2019

Exclusive: Ramaphosa and Kiir agree on new operator for Total's former blocks B1 and B2

NIGERIA 19/03/2019

EY champions mining as a vector for economic growth

Audit and consultancy giant EY has won a contract to manage Nigeria's programme to diversify the country's economy through mining [...]

BURKINA FASO 13/03/2019

Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore's term will end next year. ©Reuters

Climate of insecurity compromises Roch Marc Christian Kabore's chances for 2020

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CHAD UGANDA 26/03/2019

Deby/CEFC: from prison, Patrick Ho calls on contacts to soften blow

Now 16 months into his prison sentence, the former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho has been served his final sentence. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN 22/03/2019

Al Cardinal, the government's Swiss army knife

The Sudanese firm is continuing to win contracts to supply the government. As well as being a partner of Salva Kiir? [...]

MOROCCO 21/03/2019

China's Sinohydro takes off at Rabat airport with the Rtabis

According to our information, Chinese construction giant Sinohydro has won the 1-billion-dirham contract for construction of a third terminal at [...]

GHANA 19/03/2019

Ibaera Capital helps Azumah develop Wa gold

Although not operator of the Wa gold project, private equity fund Ibaera Capital is the financial key to the development of the site. [...]

CHINASIERRA LEONE TURKEY 13/03/2019

How Summa drove Beijing out of Lungi airport

The Turkish firm is in exclusive talks with Freetown over the project for the new international terminal. An exclusive investigation. [...]

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA 26/03/2019

Gabriel Obiang's enemies beginning to circle in

A posy of high-profile politicians is trying to rally together to oust Gabriel Obiang Lima, son of President Teodoro Obiang [...]

ETHIOPIA 22/03/2019

General Kindu seeks naval inspiration

The re-establishing of a navy for the Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) with the cooperation of the French military authorities, [...]

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MOROCCO 21/03/2019

Khaled Bugshan takes the reins to build hotel-horseriding club

MOROCCO 21/03/2019

Karim Debbouze continues the show without Jamel

LIBYA 21/03/2019

Misrata Free Zone chairman Ben Hamida to visits France's MEDEF

UGANDA 19/03/2019

Cement tycoon Narendra Raval moves into steel

On March 1, Kenyan businessman Narendra Raval met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to present a steelworks project in the [...]

GABON 13/03/2019

Jean Eyeghe Ndong dreams of presidency

Having embarked from mid-February to early March on a tour of France and South Africa to raise awareness of the [...]

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CONGO-B Business circles 26/03/2019

Abu Dhabi's PetroNor to help African Petroleum back onto its feet Free

Australian junior African Petroleum will merge with a company with influential ties in the Gulf. [...]

NIGER Business circles 26/03/2019

World Bank keeping Niamey's power hopes alive

On March 15, Niger's council of ministers validated a $93 [...]

BURKINA FASO Business circles 26/03/2019

Kabore showers electricity projects with cash ahead of elections

While the run-up to Burkinabe's 2020 presidential election is caught [...]

AFRICA Business circles 26/03/2019

Orrick promotes its Mr Cameroon to replace man overboard Pascal Agboyibor

American law firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, which has a [...]

ANGOLA Business circles 26/03/2019

Tax expert and former ExxonMobil man, Patricio Quingongo flies solo

Angolan national Patricio Wanderley Quingongo, who served as an engineer [...]

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