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BENIN NIGER CHAD Document 25/06/2019

Future Agadem exports: why CNPC prefers Patrice Talon over Idriss Deby

The oil major China National Petroleum Corp plans to start exporting part of the crude oil produced on its Nigerian field Agadem by 2022. [...]

ETHIOPIA 21/06/2019

Abiy Ahmed Ali's latest gamble to save the economy

LIBYA 20/06/2019

Misrata wants central bank as war booty if Khalifa Haftar wins

The Misrati forces fighting Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) are preparing to smuggle the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) out of Tripoli to their home city in the event that they are routed. [...]

Focus MONACO CONGO-K GABON BURKINA FASO SENEGAL 17/06/2019

Lecourt family rent Monaco letter boxes to African oligarchs

The Lecourt family began in the soap business before going on to build up a profitable agricultural trading business and then a cleaning business of a non-corporal sort, registering companies in Monaco for third parties. [...]

UNITED STATES AFRICA 12/06/2019

How Donald Trump is equipping armies of Sahel

Little interested in backing multilateral initiatives in the region, Washington has been supplying Burkina Faso and Niger with a raft of military equipment. [...]

ALGERIA 20/06/2019

Ahmed Gaid Salah keeps the courts on overload

Ahmed Gaid Salah is not planning to bring to an early end the spectacular series of detentions of former high-ranking [...]

ANGOLA PORTUGAL 12/06/2019

Pending a new fleet, Joao Lourenco modernises his Soyo naval base

On 22 May, the Angolan Ministry of Defence contracted the Portuguese construction giant Mota-Engil to carry out modernisation works on the naval base. [...]

CONGO-K 18/06/2019

CNMC hones in on ERG's Katangan mines

Chinese group CNMC is understood to be in talks to purchase Kazakh firm ERG's Congolese assets. [...]

Corridors of power

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SUDAN ETHIOPIA UNITED STATES 21/06/2019

Washington and Addis try to save Sudan from going way of Somalia…

American and Ethiopian pressure is partially succeeding in curtailing the mass violence of Hemeti and al-Burhan. [...]

LIBYA 20/06/2019

Khalifa Haftar opens up a second front in Syrte

As he struggles to gain the advantage over the Misrati militias defending Tripoli, Khalifa Haftar is preparing to open a [...]

News In Brief

KENYA |SOMALIA 21/06/2019

The National Intelligence Service takes interest in new group linked to Al-Shabaab

LIBYA 20/06/2019

Zintan loses pro-GNA military leader Abdulsalam Abusetta

CONGO-K 18/06/2019

Felix Tshisekedi picks oil man for EITI duties

GABON 25/06/2019

Now minister, why is Noel Mboumba shutting down former employer Sogara

CONGO-B 25/06/2019

Raoul Ominga keeping a tight lip about details of SNPC upstream branch bombshell

MOROCCO 11/06/2019

SDX Energy and sound energy for sale: Rothschild's double whammy

ZAMBIA 18/06/2019

UK court rejects ZCCM-IH's claims against First Quantum

Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines-Investments Holdings (ZCCM-IH), a majority-state owned enterprise, has failed to convince the UK's high court of justice [...]

GABON 12/06/2019

How Ali Bongo staged his comeback

Above and beyond the announcement of a government reshuffle, the purpose of the two speeches given by Ali Bongo on 8 June was to demonstrate that he was once again in full possession of his faculties, eight months after suffering [...]

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Business circles

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AFRICA 25/06/2019

Donald Trump sends Barack Obama's renewable energy mix up in flames

Since 2017, the American government has focused on using gas - more than renewables - to improve access to power across the continent. [...]

KENYA 21/06/2019

Odinga struggles to sell his family assets

The press have prematurely reported the sale of Kisumu Molasses to Jaswant Rai, but the deal has not yet been clinched since the tycoon has not accepted the Odinga family's asking price. [...]

MOROCCO 20/06/2019

Al Baida dangles new carrot before Casablanca bus hopefuls

With five months to go before the end of M'Dina Bus's contract, efforts to find a successor are creating one [...]

NAMIBIA 18/06/2019

UraMin: Tilahun wants to bring Areva's $250 million home

In an attempt to avoid paying damages to Areva and still be able to take over the desalination plant of the Trekkopje uranium mine, Haddis Tilahun had pushed to attach claims to a Namibian court - to no avail. [...]

CONGO-K 12/06/2019

Passport contract up for grabs again?

ID document manufacturers are descending on Congo-K in the hope that Felix Tshisekedi's new administration will review the passport mega-project. [...]

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Power brokers

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NIGERIA 25/06/2019

NNPC: who is hiding behind Muhammadu Buhari's new dream team?

Just three weeks into his second mandate, Muhammadu Buhari has chosen to replace eight of the most influential members of [...]

DJIBOUTI 21/06/2019

Minister for education Moustapha Tele already in firing line?

Although he has the ear of the first lady Kadra Mahamoud Haid, the minister of education, Moustapha Mohamed Mahmoud (Issaq/Habar [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 20/06/2019

Inwi plays catch-up in mobile money with Nicolas Levi

ALGERIA 20/06/2019

Deputy Farida Benazi goes into used tyre reconditioning

MOROCCO 20/06/2019

Abdelmounaim Faouzi still in favour with Ynja Khattat in Dakhla

GUINEA 18/06/2019

Nigel Jones to take charge of Simandou iron ore for Rio Tinto

The shareholders of blocks 3 and 4 of the Guinean iron ore project Simandou - Australia's Rio Tinto, Chinese firm [...]

CONGO-K 12/06/2019

Justin Inzun Kakiak drawn into biometric passport battle

Appointed director-general of the Agence nationale de renseignement (ANR) in March, Justin Inzun Kakiak will have a big say in [...]

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ANGOLA Oil 25/06/2019

Somoil founders, Joaquim David and Manuel Vicente, drag firm into quagmire Free

The founders of the country's largest private oil firm, Somoil, owe the state colossal sums. [...]

NAMIBIA Electricity 25/06/2019

Mergence, the powerful South African fund harnessing the sun

South African investment firm Mergence Investment Managers ‘s Namibian arm [...]

IVORY COAST Business circles 25/06/2019

Abdourahmane Cisse hires his former teacher to kick off oil and gas institute by 2020

The Ivorian minister of petroleum and energy Abdourahmane Cisse is [...]

SENEGAL Business circles 25/06/2019

GES-Petrogaz urgently seeking petroleum auditor

The unit responsible for implementing and managing projects within Senegal's [...]

AFRICA Business circles 25/06/2019

Centurion's NJ Ayuk adds oil consultancy to investment plans

Equatorial Guinean lawyer NJ Ayuk would like to invest in [...]

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Abdelmounaim Faouzi still in favour with Ynja Khattat in Dakhla

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