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DRC 19/11/2019

How ENI plans to snatch blocks 1 and 2 from right under Total's nose

Focus AFRICA 18/11/2019

Russia's electoral "experts" aim to conquer Africa

IVORY COAST Infrastructure & Power 18/11/2019

Natixis takes the lead in Abidjan metro financing

After several months of delays by Ivorian authorities and French companies, the financing of Abidjan's metro is finally falling into place. [...]

SUDAN 15/11/2019

Brussels diagnoses its Sudanese patient

MOZAMBIQUE Corridors of power 15/11/2019

French to help with surveillance in Cabo Delgado?

With the insurrection in the north gaining momentum, the Mozambican intelligence services see in Paris a useful partner to supplement Russian military aid. [...]

LIBYA 14/11/2019

Misrata's Ahmed Miitig tries to woo Paris with contracts

The government of national accord (GNA) in Tripoli is using business to try to improve relations with Paris, which it [...]

DRC 06/11/2019

Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

NIGER 12/11/2019

Uranium: Rosatom full steam ahead while Orano rubber stamps cutbacks

Although the French nuclear group Orano (formerly Areva) has decided to make drastic cuts to its activities in Niger, the Niamey authorities have found a new potential ally [...]

Corridors of power

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SENEGAL 19/11/2019

SNE: why was Woodside's Peter Coleman in a secret meeting with Macky Sall?

The partners of Sangomar offshore have struck a deal with Dakar that finds a way around obstacles still holding back the development of SNE. [...]

SOMALILAND 15/11/2019

Nairobi builds diplomatic bridges with Hargeisa

With relations already strained between Nairobi and Mogadishu due to their border dispute, Kenyatta has riled Farmajo by inviting Musa Bihi Abdi. [...]

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

STAFIM board member Sonia Khechine gets into the ARP

Whereas several business people have had to give up their seats in the Assembly of the Representatives of the People [...]

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UGANDA 15/11/2019

Kampala seeks Emirati assistance on cybersecurity

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

Abderraouf Betbaïeb gets "family" presidential post

DRC 12/11/2019

Mining G7 scuppered by returning trio

DRC 12/11/2019

MIBA waiting on extraction units to confirm revival

After resuming its diamond extraction activities in September, the Congolese state-owned MIBA (Société minière de Bakwanga) may have to already [...]

Breaking newsGABON 08/11/2019

Office of the president keeps it close to the family

On the night of November 7, the president's office had to have a second go at publishing the full list [...]

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA 19/11/2019

Trident/Kosmos Energy duo in full blown cold war

While the Kosmos Energy and Trident Energy duo that owns Equatorial Guinean block S may have recently discovered oil on [...]

KENYA 19/11/2019

Politics could get the better of Total's interests in Lokichar

The Kenyan treasury is being extremely slow in implementing tax changes negotiated with exasperated majors. [...]

ETHIOPIA 15/11/2019

Italians queue up to do business in Addis

Five months on from the EU-Ethiopia Business Forum in Brussels at which Italian firms were absent, the Italian Trade Agency has decided to step up its game. [...]

News In Brief

AFRICA 19/11/2019

Lukoil and Litasco hunt down contracts together

UGANDA 15/11/2019

Electricity alliance between UETCL and Ethiopia

SIERRA LEONE 12/11/2019

Marampa PR battle over, arbitration on

MADAGASCAR 15/11/2019

The detours of Andry Rajoelina's Turkish jet

Andry Rajoelina is reluctant to purchase a presidential jet and in the meantime has a Turkish private jet waiting on the tarmac at Ivato for him. [...]

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Abdeslam Ahizoune plunges into Casablanca's dustbins

Maroc Télécom chairman Abdeslam Ahizoune has put on a new hat... that of binman! The sudden departure from Morocco of waste collection market leader Derichebourg has forced the former telecommunications minister to fly to the aid of his son Youssef [...]

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Jaâfar Heikel is partnered by TGCC boss in clinic-building project

High profile media personality Dr. Jaâfar Heikel has consolidated his plans to set up a network of private clinics in [...]

BURKINA FASO 12/11/2019

Ouagadougou pushes local business leaders into Kiéré manganese

While the Burkina Faso authorities want the Tambao project to be taken over by a foreign firm (AMI 449), they [...]

IVORY COAST 06/11/2019

Concrete gains for Emmanuel Macron ahead of Abidjan visit

In the run-up to Emmanuel Macron's visit to Abidjan in early December, French construction firms are being showered with contracts. [...]

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Power brokers

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NIGERIA 19/11/2019

Muhammadu Indimi clears out the ranks at Oriental Energy

The Nigerian billionaire oil tycoon Muhammadu Indimi - whose son Ahmed Indimi is married to President Muhammadu Buhari's daughter Zahra [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Omar Alaoui moves from the CGEM to ESL & Network

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

Former TFBank chief executive Houssein Mouelhi turns consultant

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Ex-OCP security chief Ahmed Fouad Bahbouhi sets up on his own

EAST AFRICA 15/11/2019

How Workeneh Gebeyehu secured IGAD post

On 7 November, the former Ethiopian foreign minister Workeneh Gebeyehu, who since March had been heading up the UN office [...]

IVORY COAST 06/11/2019

Marcel Amon Tanoh set to ambush Amadou Gon Coulibaly?

Openly sceptical of the chances of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly if, as seems likely, he runs for president in [...]

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GABON Exploration-production 19/11/2019

DGH/GOC/Presidency: Ali Bongo's new oil and gas head honchos Free

The appointment of the 65-year-old Jean-Félix Obamba as the new head of Gabon's oil and gas department, the DGH, makes [...]

NIGERIA SOUTH AFRICA Exploration-production 19/11/2019

What pushed Buhari to silence NNPC's Mele Kyari at AOW

The all-powerful director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC), [...]

SOMALIA Courts and cash 19/11/2019

Shell-Exxon: with tax settled, oil minister wants to lock in schedule

The Somalian minister of petroleum and natural resources, Abdirashid Mohamed [...]

NIGERIA Courts and cash 19/11/2019

Seplat's Eland purchase: Starcrest declares war on its partner

Nigerian junior oil firm Starcrest and its partner on OML [...]

KENYA Courts and cash 19/11/2019

Flush with WB cash, oil minister Munyes hires Beicip-Franlab experts to win buyers

Three months after selling the first cargo of crude oil [...]

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Consultants and lawyers already winning in Aziz vs Bouamatou war

Exclusive: The financial acrobatics of a government walking a tightrope

A new generation of Karana businessmen are taking over the reins

President Filipe Nyusi’s northern allies on the look-out for good deals

How ENI plans to snatch blocks 1 and 2 from right under Total's nose

Russia's electoral "experts" aim to conquer Africa

Natixis takes the lead in Abidjan metro financing

Brussels diagnoses its Sudanese patient

French to help with surveillance in Cabo Delgado?

Misrata's Ahmed Miitig tries to woo Paris with contracts

Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

Uranium: Rosatom full steam ahead while Orano rubber stamps cutbacks

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Ismael Omar Guelleh loses control of the ports, the country's principal resource

Washington, Doha and Ankara wrestle for control of Central Bank of Libya

Monaco Resources, the principality's mysterious African trading company

Corridors of power

SNE: why was Woodside's Peter Coleman in a secret meeting with Macky Sall?

Nairobi builds diplomatic bridges with Hargeisa

STAFIM board member Sonia Khechine gets into the ARP

Kampala seeks Emirati assistance on cybersecurity

Abderraouf Betbaïeb gets "family" presidential post

Mining G7 scuppered by returning trio

MIBA waiting on extraction units to confirm revival

Office of the president keeps it close to the family

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Trident/Kosmos Energy duo in full blown cold war

Politics could get the better of Total's interests in Lokichar

Italians queue up to do business in Addis

Lukoil and Litasco hunt down contracts together

Electricity alliance between UETCL and Ethiopia

Marampa PR battle over, arbitration on

The detours of Andry Rajoelina's Turkish jet

Abdeslam Ahizoune plunges into Casablanca's dustbins

Jaâfar Heikel is partnered by TGCC boss in clinic-building project

Ouagadougou pushes local business leaders into Kiéré manganese

Concrete gains for Emmanuel Macron ahead of Abidjan visit

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Muhammadu Indimi clears out the ranks at Oriental Energy

Omar Alaoui moves from the CGEM to ESL & Network

Former TFBank chief executive Houssein Mouelhi turns consultant

Ex-OCP security chief Ahmed Fouad Bahbouhi sets up on his own

How Workeneh Gebeyehu secured IGAD post

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