UCB, the official drinks supplier of the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations, is threatening to take African football's governing body to court for breach of contract. The bone of contention is the presence of its rival Castel at fringe tournament venues. [...]
There has been no dialogue between the Cameroonian government and Anglophone separatists in the North-West and South-West regions since the crisis began in 2016. In the run-up to the Africa Cup of Nations, a string of ill-prepared initiatives from the English-speaking separatists has failed to change the situation. [...]
The Swiss commodities trader Vitol has become a trump card in British junior Savannah's game. In exchange for financial support for Savannah's purchase of ExxonMobil-Petronas's Doba assets, it should end up well placed to market the crude produced there. [...]
Perenco's negotiations for the takeover of three blocks in the Ivorian offshore have been dragging on for several months. Africa Intelligence reveals the reasons behind this stalemate. [...]
Burkina Faso withdrew Patel's permit for the Inata mine because it deemed his firm, Balaji, had neither spent enough money on it nor done enough work at the site. Patel is now pulling out all the stops to make sure the same thing doesn't happen at his Kalsaka gold mine. [...]
Cooking oil producers, Cevital in the lead, have more than enough supply, yet shortages in #Algeria are beginning to create political havoc. Confidential statistics show how border regions supply the black market in neighbouring countries. https://t.co/CnchZv7KAG
#Congo has still not paid its bill for the construction of the monumental convention centre built in #Brazzaville by the Turkish group Summa in 2017 - and the matter is poisoning relations between Ankara and Brazzaville. #Turkey https://t.co/wVoElfK2kl
Klaus Eckhof, a veteran mining deal fixer in #DRC, has joined @TantalexLithium, which is exploring for lithium in Manono, just next to the concessions held by a company he used to work for, @AVZMinerals https://t.co/GGchtHN2to
