Since taking over at the helm of the South African subsidiary of the French major Total in August 2018, the Nigerian Adewale Fayemi has become the leading private sector player in South Africa's oil industry. [...]
Because he authorised Sahara Energy to apply fuel prices likely to cost the Cameroonian state tens of millions of dollars in additional subsidy pay-outs, the energy minister has angered the finance minister who is supposed to find the extra funding. [...]
By republishing the Congolese mining code at the end of June with his ministry's interpretation of its contents and publicising the event in the media, mines minister Willy Kitobo has given a show of support for the former head of state rather than the existing one. [...]
