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SPOTLIGHT ANGOLA 28/06/2017

Lourenço, future president of a cash-strapped country

After years of enjoying the fruits of a high oil price, Angola, the continent's second-ranking producer, now looks like a graveyard to would-be investors. [...]

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ANGOLA 13/06/2017

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AFRICA 27/06/2017

American major ExxonMobil wants a finger in every pie

Flying in the face of low crude prices, over the past few months ExxonMobil has been on a spending spree across Africa picking up a string of new acquisitions. New boss Darren Woods' arrival in January doesn't seem to have slowed the American major down an inch. [...]

LIBYA 22/06/2017

DO Systems branches out from intelligence to saving migrants

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NIGER 28/06/2017

Africard, the company that gives Issoufou nightmares

The firm that makes passports is chasing Niger for payment of a $25 million debt. And multiplying its impoundments of government assets. An exclusive report. [...]

GABON 27/06/2017

Touchstone works with Schlumberger over Remboue

Despite recently becoming operator of the field, the Canadian junior still has its work cut out to settle a debt with the services firm. [...]

KENYA 23/06/2017

Odinga dropped by foreign backers

Odinga, Kenya's former prime minister and now the opposition candidate in presidential elections in August, is having trouble getting his friends abroad to help finance his campaign, as they did in elections in 2007 and 2013. [...]

TUNISIA 22/06/2017

Chahed's anti-corruption drive delights the IMF

One month after the start of his "mani pulite" operation, which has now spread to the port of Rades prime minister Youssef Chahed is continuing to benefit from it politically! [...]

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IVORY COAST 28/06/2017

French military upset over Ouattara's contracts to private sector

Alassane Ouattara has been prompted by instability in his armed forces to hand work to private French concerns to train troops. But France's military establishment isn't altogether happy about that. [...]

UGANDA 26/06/2017

Parliament speaker defies Museveni on bonuses handed out for win against heritage

The Ugandan parliament is all in a flutter over the way a $2 million bonuses envelop was dished out in [...]

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FRANCE | IVORY COAST 28/06/2017

Chataigner vs Clavier to replace Georges Serre

ETHIOPIA | SOMALIA 23/06/2017

Army on war footing to assist Amisom

LIBYA 22/06/2017

Fayez Sarraj tracks lost Libyan treasures in the US

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 13/06/2017

Total and Lukoil GIVEN preferential treatment for Ronda 2016

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 13/06/2017

OneLNG, a SECURE ally for Gabriel Obiang’s gas ambitions

GABON 13/06/2017

Gabon Oil Co’s daylight robbery of the state jewels

ETHIOPIA DJIBOUTI 23/06/2017

Eritrea, everybody's favorite enemy

Ever since Qatar announced on June 14 it was withdrawing the observation force it deployed in 2010 between Eritrea and Djibouti, the inhabitants of Djibouti and Ethiopia fear Asmara has war-like intentions. Right time for wrong moves. The Indian [...]

MOROCCO 22/06/2017

Driss El Yazami seeks asylum in Paris

Although he should have been in the front line playing the role of mediator in the face of the escalating [...]

GUINEA 20/06/2017

Ashapura pays court to the government to secure Boffa bauxite

Indian group Ashapura Minechem is vying for a bauxite block in Boffa previously explored by BHP Billiton and is bending [...]

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IVORY COAST 28/06/2017

Alink Telecom down the drain

The company specializing in internet services couldn't stand up to the onslaught of competitors. [...]

BENIN 27/06/2017

Puma Energy rolls up sleeves to slog it out for oil terminal

Sentenced to pay a hefty $17 million to local businessman Vlavo Koundo, Puma won't give in to the arbitral ruling without a fight. [...]

ETHIOPIA 23/06/2017

Metec can't get Yayu Fertilizer Factory to come up smelling like a rose

The Ethiopian industrial jewel is trying to raise fresh funds despite doubts about its capacity to push through its projects. [...]

MOROCCO 22/06/2017

Belkhayat protege Laarabi launches pan-African press venture

Former RNI party communications chief Nawfal Laarabi is to try his hand as a press entrepreneur. With Le1.ma website boss [...]

MAURITIUS 20/06/2017

Denham Capital ramps up mining investments via Tremont

Mauritius fund Tremont Investments, affiliated with Denham Capital, is preparing to increase its mining stakes in Tanzania and Congo-K. [...]

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CONGO-B 28/06/2017

Ngatse Mbouala in tug of war with Okemba

Recognizable from his long white beard that seems to cover half of his face, the commander of Congo-B's Garde Republicaine [...]

CONGO-B 27/06/2017

Och-Ziff affair puts Steve Lowden on the back foot

Founder of New Age (African Global Energy) in 2007, American national Steve Lowden has now found himself forced to step [...]

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GABON 28/06/2017

Charpentier signs up as adviser to Bongo

IVORY COAST 28/06/2017

Central Banque puts the squeeze on Koizan

TUNISIA 22/06/2017

Khelil Lajimi plays farmer for the Bayahi brothers

SUDAN 23/06/2017

Caffey Norman to lay out Khartoum's case in Washington

Caffey Norman, a partner of Democrat Thomas Boggs in the firm Squire Patton Boggs (SPB), penned a lobbying contract in [...]

RWANDA 20/06/2017

AB Minerals brings in Frank Mugyenyi to crush coltan rivals

To keep work moving forward on its Rwandan smelter to transform coltan into tantalum powder and niobium hydroxide (AMI 382), [...]

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Spotlight ANGOLA 28/06/2017

Lourenço, future president of a cash-strapped country

After years of enjoying the fruits of a high oil price, Angola, the continent's second-ranking producer, now looks like a graveyard to would-be investors. The designated successor of president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who decided not to stand for re-election [...] [...]

GUINEA FRANCE 28/06/2017

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American major ExxonMobil wants a finger in every pie

DO Systems branches out from intelligence to saving migrants

Africard, the company that gives Issoufou nightmares

Touchstone works with Schlumberger over Remboue

Odinga dropped by foreign backers

Chahed's anti-corruption drive delights the IMF

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French military upset over Ouattara's contracts to private sector

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Fayez Sarraj tracks lost Libyan treasures in the US

Total and Lukoil GIVEN preferential treatment for Ronda 2016

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