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14/12/2018 AFRICA / FRANCE / GABON -
A new Africa boss named at Veolia

LIBYA 13/12/2018

Scope tries to reduce Jordanian war-wounded bill

CAMEROON Document 12/12/2018

Reelected for a seventh term, Paul Biya won't sway.

Berlin and Paris try in vain to flush Biya out of his bunker

ALGERIA 06/12/2018

Sonatrach awards IT contract to China's CNPC and Huawei

Giant national oil group Sonatrach has entrusted its Chinese opposite number, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), and telecommunications equipment supplier [...]

SUDAN 07/12/2018

Bashir-Trump rapprochement falls apart

After a brief honeymoon with Washington, Bashir is once again stressing the Islamic identity of his regime in response to the new conditions the US is seeking to impose on Khartoum. [...]

GUINEA 04/12/2018

King of energy in Angola Ricardo Leitao Machado strikes into mines

Portuguese businessman Ricardo Leitao Machado registered a company in Conakry this November to branch out into pan-African investment opportunities in [...]

ANGOLA 11/12/2018

Israel warms up relations with Luanda with solar power

A photovoltaic power project financed by Israel has helped turn the months-long standoff between the two countries. [...]

ANGOLA 12/12/2018

Lourenco's anti-corruption investigators on the scent

A streamlined team is being deployed to tackle this priority for the new president. [...]

CONGO-B 11/12/2018

Sassou sells off blocks to rescue 2019 budget

Although the country's output has reached one of its all-time highs, exploration could very well step up a notch next year. Here's why. [...]

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ALGERIA 13/12/2018

Bouteflika too ill to run, clan preps plan B

A proposal to postpone the presidential elections due in April 2019, which has been talked about by leading figures in [...]

IVORY COAST 12/12/2018

Point of no return for Ouattara and Bedie

The president and his former ally seem to be intent on torpedoing each other. [...]

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ALGERIA 13/12/2018

"Rebrab problem" provokes high-level wrangling

CHAD 12/12/2018

Paris supports Deby in Tibesti Mountains

KENYA 07/12/2018

A new recruit lined up for the National Rainbow Coalition ?

SENEGAL 11/12/2018

Total's block: what is African Petroleum's knockout argument to win arbitration against Dakar?

IVORY COAST 11/12/2018

Prime minister delays Cairn's entry onto tullow Oil's blocks

GAMBIA 27/11/2018

Adama Barrow gives tandem Petronas-Far six months leeway to pull through

MADAGASCAR 07/12/2018

Marc Ravalomanana (left) and Andry Rajoelina, both former presidents, hope to have a new term.

Presidential election lays bare polarised political landscape

AFRICA 04/12/2018

EU war on cadmium takes toll on phosphate sector

The provisional agreement reached by the European Parliament and the European Council of Ministers to cap cadmium content in phosphate [...]

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MOROCCO 13/12/2018

Engie and Nareva obtain Dakhla desalination plant contract unopposed

French energy giant Engie and Nareva, energy subsidiary of Mohammed VI's personal holding company Al Mada, did not have too [...]

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 12/12/2018

Where private security companies are king

The fraught situation in the country since 2013 has proved a boon for a burgeoning private security sector. An investigation. [...]

KENYA 11/12/2018

Solar energy: French billionaire Mulliez pampered by AfDB

One of the retail tycoon's offshoots, Voltalia, is about to get a leg up from Abidjan for its solar farm in Kenya. [...]

SUDAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 07/12/2018

Emirates poised to drop anchor in Sudan's ports

Sudanese ports have the wind in their sails thanks to the businessmen of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. [...]

MOROCCO 04/12/2018

Former Managem bedfellows move into mining consultancy

Three former Managem men have joined forces to set up their own mining advisory firm. [...]

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IVORY COAST 12/12/2018

Nadiana Bamba, the gatekeeper in The Hague

Having married Laurent Gbagbo in a traditional ceremony, Nadiana Bamba (aka Nady) is the former Ivorian president's bedrock in The [...]

TUNISIA 11/12/2018

Oil firms with no-one to call on since Kaddour's departure

As the majors continue to leave the country one by one, the latest being Repsol (AEI 829), Tunisia's petroleum sector [...]

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TUNISIA 13/12/2018

Money laundering expert Chakib Adib goes solo

MOROCCO 13/12/2018

Former banker Lemridi turns guide for foreign investors

TUNISIA 13/12/2018

Chaibi and Ben Salem launch shopping mall project in Sfax

MADAGASCAR 07/12/2018

Alain Toussaint, anti-France or pro-Russia?

Senior officials at the Ministry of Communications were not informed, and with good reason: the decision came directly from the [...]

GHANA 04/12/2018

Sandeep Chadha helps Accra become gold refiner

Indian businessman Sandeep Chadha has been placed in charge of overseeing the project to create a gold refinery carried by [...]

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A new Africa boss named at Veolia

Antoine Frerot, chairman and chief executive of France's Veolia utilities group, is to appoint a new head of Africa and [...]

TUNISIA Business circles 13/12/2018

Maersk targeted by judges after port of Rades debacle Free

The Maersk group's misfortunes in Tunisia are continuing. The world's leading shipping group, which has already been obliged to close [...]

ALGERIA Business circles Businessmen 13/12/2018

Kamel Labed starts Turkish-backed construction venture

Kamel Eddine Labed, head of the Algerian branch of Turkish-Arab [...]

TUNISIA Power brokers 13/12/2018

Hafedh Caid Essebsi comes to Slim Riahi's aid in Paris

Hafedh Caid Essebsi, son of President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") [...]

TUNISIA Power brokers 13/12/2018

UGTT to set up its own political party?

The powerful UGTT trade union could take part directly in [...]

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