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13/11/2019 GUINEA -
Simandou: Société Minière de Boké wins former Beny Steinmetz blocks

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 to develop the country's uranium resources: Russian industrial Rosatom. Summit sessions [...]

Focus DJIBOUTI 04/11/2019

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

MOZAMBIQUE 01/11/2019

Filipe Nyusi gears up for cabinet reshuffle

His sweeping victory with 73.5% of the vote in the elections of 15 October has strengthened the position of Filipe Nyusi both as president and within FRELIMO, making it an opportune time for him to reshuffle a government [...]

NAMIBIA 11/11/2019

Trans-Zambezi railway project getting back on track

Namibian authorities have relaunched the plan to transport minerals by rail from the Copperbelt to Walvis Bay, calling for bids for a feasibility study. [...]

LIBYA 07/11/2019

Khalifa Haftar consolidates his Tripoli front as the UN marks time

GUINEA Corridors of power 06/11/2019

Snubbed in the West, Alpha Condé turns to Ankara and Moscow

The scrupulously stage-managed ‘jubilant crowds' who welcomed Alpha Condé at Conakry airport on 31 October served not only as a riposte to the opposition demonstrations [...]

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 [...]

AFRICA 05/11/2019

Where are Total's dead zones and what are its golden tickets for Patrick Pouyanné?

There is little chance Total will be tucking into projects of any significance in Congo-B or Gabon in the near future and its Angolan is continuing to fall, [...]

Corridors of power

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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 [...]

LIBYA 07/11/2019

Abdelhadi Al Houij opens up Sarraj-Conte split

After trips to Madrid and Brussels, Abdelhadi Al Houij, foreign minister in the dissident government in Benghazi, stopped over in [...]

IVORY COAST 06/11/2019

Guillaume Soro aspires to be leader of united opposition

The former speaker of parliament Guillaume Soro is seeking to rally an anti-Ouattara front behind him for his presidential bid. [...]

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DRC 12/11/2019

Mining G7 scuppered by returning trio

TUNISIA 07/11/2019

Youssef Chahed asked to double for Kaïs Saïed in Berlin, Paris and Algiers

MALI 06/11/2019

Air France concerned over security breaches at Bamako airport

MAURITANIA SENEGAL 05/11/2019

Why Adnoc's purchase of Kosmos' assets is now ineffective

The conditions for the sale of two-thirds of the US junior's assets in the two countries have changed, bringing the process back to square one. [...]

GREAT LAKES 01/11/2019

Belligerence of Kampala and Kigali backfires

The tensions between Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan opposite number Paul Kagame are assuming worrying dimensions and threatening to destabilise the whole of the Great Lakes region. Investigations by the Indian Ocean Newsletter have revealed the extent to which paranoia [...]

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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 [...]

SWAZILAND 12/11/2019

Sergey Bozhko, pioneer of gold prospecting in kingdom

The fledgling Muscovite mining firm Africa Gold is preparing to send geologists to Eswatini in November to start exploration on [...]

MOROCCO 07/11/2019

H&A Investment takes legal action over Global Nexus affair

H&A Investment Holding, the investment fund owned by businessman Ahmed El Fehdi, began legal action against Global Nexus before the [...]

News In Brief

SIERRA LEONE 12/11/2019

Marampa PR battle over, arbitration on

WEST AFRICA 06/11/2019

Société générale active on every front

BENIN |NIGERIA 05/11/2019

Why fuel traffickers don't care about the border closure

ALGERIA 07/11/2019

Rouiba looks for new shareholders to escape debt default

Agri-food giant NCA Rouiba, which is facing grave financial difficulties, is looking urgently for new shareholders. According to our information, [...]

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. [...]

DRC 06/11/2019

Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

The Congolese transport minister Didier Mazenga is shortly due to pay a visit to Toulouse to discuss the purchase of Airbus A220s. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN 05/11/2019

DMWA makes Salva Kiir backtrack on stance against prefinance deals

According to our sources, the South Sudanese president Salva Kiir didn't manage to hold out against pre-financing arrangements for very [...]

MADAGASCAR 01/11/2019

Two rescue plans for one Jirama

The lengthy report produced by the World Bank does not advocate the same rescue plan as that favoured by the Jirama chairman. [...]

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Power brokers

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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 [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 07/11/2019

Aafer group teams up with Bachir in Tangiers construction venture

TUNISIA 07/11/2019

Khaled Fakhfakh to inject fresh capital into Golf Citrus in Hammamet

MOROCCO 07/11/2019

Ahmed Ouzahoua (ex-Accor) launches tourism venture

NIGERIA 05/11/2019

Why do NNPC's Mele Kyari and minister Sylva only have eyes for Moscow?

NNPC group managing director Mele Kyari and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva joined President Muhammadu Buhari [...]

SOUTH AFRICA TANZANIA 01/11/2019

Cast out by Magufuli, Benno Ndulu is welcomed by Ramaphosa

Last month, the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa appointed the ex-governor of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), Benno Ndulu, as [...]

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Breaking news GUINEA 13/11/2019

Simandou: Société Minière de Boké wins former Beny Steinmetz blocks

According to our information, Société Minière de Boké (SMB) has won the tender call issued by the Guinean government for [...]

AFRICA RUSSIA Financing and advisory 12/11/2019

Zyfra plans digital revolution for continent's miners

Pavel Rastopshin was at the Russia-Africa summit in Sochi in [...]

ANGOLA Supply Chain 12/11/2019

With Turkey's Tosyali, Luanda rekindles dreams of steel Free

The Angolan government has awarded the Turkish steel group Tosyali the Cassinga iron ore project that includes the construction of an ore transformation unit. [...]

DRC Supply Chain 12/11/2019

PACT tests waters for interest in fight against child labour in mines

The NGO PACT is keen to make enquiries to see [...]

AFRICA Supply Chain 12/11/2019

BBOXX solar power start-up founders tackle traceability

Minexx, the British firm that recently launched MineSmart, an online [...]

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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

Uranium: Rosatom full steam ahead while Orano rubber stamps cutbacks

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

Filipe Nyusi gears up for cabinet reshuffle

Trans-Zambezi railway project getting back on track

Khalifa Haftar consolidates his Tripoli front as the UN marks time

Snubbed in the West, Alpha Condé turns to Ankara and Moscow

Office of the president keeps it close to the family

Where are Total's dead zones and what are its golden tickets for Patrick Pouyanné?

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

Monaco Resources, the principality's mysterious African trading company

Macron manœuvres in secret to save Idriss Deby

Corridors of power

MIBA waiting on extraction units to confirm revival

Abdelhadi Al Houij opens up Sarraj-Conte split

Guillaume Soro aspires to be leader of united opposition

Mining G7 scuppered by returning trio

Youssef Chahed asked to double for Kaïs Saïed in Berlin, Paris and Algiers

Air France concerned over security breaches at Bamako airport

Why Adnoc's purchase of Kosmos' assets is now ineffective

Belligerence of Kampala and Kigali backfires

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Ouagadougou pushes local business leaders into Kiéré manganese

Sergey Bozhko, pioneer of gold prospecting in kingdom

H&A Investment takes legal action over Global Nexus affair

Marampa PR battle over, arbitration on

Société générale active on every front

Why fuel traffickers don't care about the border closure

Rouiba looks for new shareholders to escape debt default

Concrete gains for Emmanuel Macron ahead of Abidjan visit

Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

DMWA makes Salva Kiir backtrack on stance against prefinance deals

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