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EQUATORIAL GUINEA 23/07/2019

Teodorin Obiang liability sends oil firms packing

Equatorial Guinea's minister of mines, industry and energy Gabriel Obiang Lima is finding it hard to secure takers for the 25 new offshore blocks as oil firms loose trust in the stability of the regime. The high probability that President [...]

Focus CONGO-K 15/07/2019

Mining rivals Katumbi and Beveraggi settle their scores on the football pitch

ALGERIA Corridors of power 18/07/2019

Intelligence: Ahmed Gaid Salah recreates his own "DRS"

Army chief of staff Ahmed Gaid Salah is manoeuvring furiously to strengthen his hold over post-Bouteflika Algeria. He has set about turning the Army Central Security Directorate, the DCSA, into an all-powerful intelligence service comparable to the former Intelligence and [...]

AFRICA RUSSIA 19/07/2019

Alpha Conde, Putin's middleman for Somaliland

LIBYA 18/07/2019

Khalifa Haftar sanctions Abderrazak Nadhouri after attack

The car bomb attack at the funeral of former special forces (Saiqa) officer Khalifa Al Mismari on July 11 has [...]

ANGOLA UNITED STATES Document 10/07/2019

Lourenco banks on Vicente's networks

Once shepherded around Washington by the flamboyant Republican financier Elliott Broidy, the Angolan president has turned to the former Sonangol lobbyist to represent him in the States. [...]

Simandou iron ore evacuations options. ©Africa Mining Intelligence/Indigo Publications

GUINEA Document 16/07/2019

Is Liberia the solution to Rio Tinto and Chinalco's Simandou iron ore challenge?

}Not wanting to have infrastructure costs cut into the profitability of their Guinean iron ore deposit Simandou, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and China's Chinalco are in talks to sell the site's first output to steel giant ArcelorMittal. [...]

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DJIBOUTI 19/07/2019

How Djama Speed sought to wrest control of Global Fund aid

The Indian Ocean Newsletter has obtained documents revealing the internal power struggles at the Ministry of Health to control subsidies from the international institution. [...]

TUNISIA 18/07/2019

Rached Ghannouchi-Nabil Karoui deal on the way?

The timely postponement to July 23 of Nabil Karoui's interrogation by the economic and financial judicial investigation unit is intended [...]

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DJIBOUTI 19/07/2019

Why Ismail Omar Guelleh supported China's candidate for FAO

ALGERIA 18/07/2019

The military study their new spy planes in Oklahoma

ZAMBIA 16/07/2019

Copperbelt province already looking to future beyond mining

BENIN |NIGER 23/07/2019

Agadem-Seme pipeline: Patrice Talon speeds up process with CNPC

SUDAN |SOUTH SUDAN 23/07/2019

CNPC, ONGC and Petronas sick and tired of the fallout from the Khartoum uprising

SOUTH SUDAN 09/07/2019

Salva Kiir has traders Sahara, BB Energy, Trafigura and Glencore on tenterhooks

CAMEROON 16/07/2019

Yaoundé drags feet, prompting reduced Sundance offer

Despite being directly handled by Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute's office, the agreement for the south-east Cameroonian Mbalam iron ore [...]

SENEGAL 10/07/2019

Senegalese President Macky Sall's entourage has split into rival factions. ©Reuters

A settling of scores within the Sall clan

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ALGERIA 23/07/2019

Lord Energy's troubles far from over

While its former operations in Algeria are being dissected by the new power, Lord Energy is being targeted by new creditors. [...]

DJIBOUTI 19/07/2019

French firms battle to supply energy

Engie is vying with Akuo Energy for energy contracts, but the Djiboutian authorities have several other irons in the fire. [...]

MOROCCO 18/07/2019

Myriam Abikzer invests in marquees ahead of IMF fiesta

Myriam Abikzer, first lady of the Moroccan events world, is expanding her empire at the expense of her friends at [...]

CONGO-K 16/07/2019

How Chemaf is financing the Mutoshi copper and cobalt plant

As a result of the cobalt price slump, Chemaf can no longer only rely on revenue from its sales of the mineral to build its new processing plant. [...]

UNITED STATES WEST AFRICA 10/07/2019

Securiport secures $95 million win against Talon

The American airport security firm Securiport active in Senegal, Mali and Ivory Coast has secured a $95 million arbitration win against Benin after it was driven out of the country to make way for a company with ties to Patrice Talon. [...]

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KENYA 23/07/2019

Could Josphat Nanok become Ruto's future oil boss in 2022?

The politically prominent Turkana County governor, Josphat Nanok, is working on building his national standing. The long-term rival of Kenyan [...]

UGANDA 19/07/2019

Gordon Wavamunno unites Buganda against Museveni

The law passed in late June targeting property owners has radicalised the until now apolitical entrepreneurs of Buganda and turned [...]

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MOROCCO 18/07/2019

Milling mogul Chakib Alj invests in packaging

TUNISIA 18/07/2019

Amel Medini appointed interim CEO at Banque de l'Habitat

LIBYA 18/07/2019

Charles Gurdon madly optimistic about the Libyan market

GUINEA 16/07/2019

Alpha Conde's intendant Kabinet Sylla strikes out in bauxite

President Alpha Conde buddy and powerful businessman Kabinet Sylla has submitted a request for a bauxite research permit in Guinea's [...]

GABON 10/07/2019

Businessman Seydou Kane makes a strong comeback

The Chief Executive Officer of the public works firm CITP (Consortium international des travaux publics), the Gabonese-Malian businessman Seydou Kane, [...]

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IVORY COAST Oil 23/07/2019

Abdourahmane Cisse slashes bonus rates for ENI and Total Free

The Ivorian government has no current intentions to increase signature bonuses on production sharing and production contracts in the oil [...]

ANGOLA Electricity 23/07/2019

Joao Lourenco promises power to his strongholds Huila and Namibe

Work to rehabilitate and upgrade the 27 MW hydropower plant [...]

GUINEA Business circles 23/07/2019

Shandong Taikai's return to grace after the World Bank

China's Shandong Taikai Power Engineering Co. is continuing to expand [...]

CONGO-B Business circles 23/07/2019

AAOG goes all-in to find funds for Djeno

The British junior Anglo-African Oil & Gas (AAOG) is making [...]

SENEGAL Business circles 23/07/2019

World Bank puts BP, Kosmos Energy, Woodside and Cairn under its watch

BP, Kosmos Energy, Woodside Energy and Cairn Energy will soon [...]

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How Djama Speed sought to wrest control of Global Fund aid

Rached Ghannouchi-Nabil Karoui deal on the way?

Why Ismail Omar Guelleh supported China's candidate for FAO

The military study their new spy planes in Oklahoma

Copperbelt province already looking to future beyond mining

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CNPC, ONGC and Petronas sick and tired of the fallout from the Khartoum uprising

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