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. [...]
#Sonatrach is reviewing security arrangements for its latest #pipeline, which carries #gas from Reggane to Hassi R'Mel. Vigil Grup, led by an ex-colonel of #Algeria's gendarmerie, is doing well out of the overhaul. https://t.co/4uuBl1KMDu
The Congolese navy has begun operating several BK-10 assault boats recently acquired from Russia. But the professionalisation of the country's maritime agencies will owe much to the support of the European Union. #Congo (free article) https://t.co/bXVxou6RDG
On 12 April, diamond expert Timothy Lee launched his new venture into diamond evaluation in Botswana by registering his new company TL Diamond Valuation in Gaborone, of which he is the sole shareholder. #Botswana https://t.co/7jX1LMHwJq
