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08/08/2017 GABON -
Jacob Thaty Tsioba dismissed from the Direction Generale des Hydrocarbures (DGH)

20/07/2017 CONGO-B -
So Brazzaville is broke? Riyadh rides to the rescue

12/07/2017 IVORY COAST -
Alassane Ouattara rings the changes in his diplomatic service

SPOTLIGHT GUINEA 01/08/2017

Bauxite shunts iron ore off top post

Once seen as one of the potential sources on which to build Guinea's development, iron ore exploration has now all but dwindled to a standstill. Mining giants BHP Billiton and Areva want to sell their project, as secondary actors look [...]

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GUINEA 04/07/2017

Zhang Xin, future prince of Bel Air and Telimele bauxite

GUINEA 06/06/2017

Last ditch efforts in Beijing to save Simandou

GUINEA 10/01/2017

Boffa's bauxite: First round in Chinalco vs Friedland bout

Special report GABON MADAGASCAR MOROCCO 17/08/2017

Macky Sall, Senegal's president, during the Forum of Dakar, on december 6, organised by CEIS. © Bloomberg

Conferences, the new African cash cow

Special report GABON 10/08/2017

A year after his election, Ali Bongo is facing a financial crisis of great magnitude. © Bloomberg

Gabon: Ali Bongo's real challenge lies in financial crisis

CONGO-K 01/08/2017

Miners in a tizzy over threat of international sanctions

Western diplomatic chancelleries are preparing to rain down a series of sanctions on members of Congolese president Joseph Kabila's entourage [...]

IVORY COAST 26/07/2017

Ouattara stokes hostilities between Soro and Bakayoko with 2020 in mind

Alassane Ouattara has reshuffled his governement on July 19. © Stephane Cardinale - Corbis

SUDAN 21/07/2017

Trump makes Bashir pay for his neutrality regarding Doha

In extending the embargo against Sudan, the Trump administration punished one of the rare countries that haven't chosen its side in the conflict between Riyadh and Doha. President Al Bashir is seeking Arab backing. [...]

ANGOLA 18/07/2017

Dos Santos clan keeps tight reign over its diamonds

With president Jose Eduardo dos Santos about to step down from office, his clan is busy forming a strategy to make sure it keeps a firm hand over the country's strategic diamond industry. [...]

TANZANIA 18/07/2017

Camarco's PR baron tasked to stamp out Acacia crisis

Fledgling consultancy Camarco, which has been building a name for itself with strategic gold assignments across the continent, is now helping Acacia Mining take on Tanzania. [...]

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TANZANIA 01/08/2017

Chamber of mines in president John Magufuli's sights

Tensions are mounting between the Tanzanian administration led by John Magufuli and mining companies present in the country, leaving the [...]

LIBYA 27/07/2017

The real negotiators of the Haftar-Sarraj Paris agreement

The key part of the talks which took place between Fayez Sarraj and Khalifa Haftar in Paris from July 23 to 25 took place neither at the Elysee Palace nor at the Chateau of Celle Saint-Cloud. And the real negotiators [...]

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ALGERIA 01/08/2017

Algiers to showcase mines to French investors

MOROCCO 27/07/2017

Former Macron supporter Hraoui launches his own movement

CONGO-B 26/07/2017

Riyadh seeking to involve Sassou in its offensive against Doha

ALGERIA 25/07/2017

Kaddour takes to Sonatrach's organisation chart with an axe

NIGERIA | SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 25/07/2017

ExxonMobil gives up on block 2 in JDZ

UGANDA 25/07/2017

Why the government is dragging its feet to approve deal between Tullow and Cnooc-Total

AFRICA 26/07/2017

Africa's leaders are off on their summer holidays

As is the annual tradition, Africa's presidents are taking a few days off. [...]

KENYA 21/07/2017

Why the presidential election will be held regardless

Despite attempts by the opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition headed by former prime minister Raila Odinga to postpone August's election, the actual date was not changed by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). And this despite an embarrassing [...]

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NAMIBIA 01/08/2017

Army's Australian partners at each other's throats

Gemini Energy And Minerals, a partner of the Namibian army on the Oamites copper exploration project, has won its court case in Australia to recover funds from former financial backer, Richard Luff. [...]

MOROCCO 27/07/2017

Embattled Hind El Achchabi saves her jet

From the Sale prison cell where she has been held since 2016, businesswoman Hind El Achchabi is fighting tooth and [...]

NIGER 26/07/2017

Court ruling goes against Africard in Paris

The High Court of Nanterre has granted Niger's petition to defer a series of seizures by the Inkript subsidiary. [...]

NIGERIA 25/07/2017

Alison-Madueke's taste for luxury upsets Washington

Yachts, apartments, Louis XVI buffets, and the list goes on. The American government wants to seize all of the gifts given to the former Abuja oil minister by Nigerian oil firms. [...]

DJIBOUTI 21/07/2017

How the boss of GSK hoodwinked the tax collector

The Indian Ocean Newsletter has uncovered proof of the financial shenanigans of Ahmed Osman Guelleh. [...]

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CONGO-K 01/08/2017

Dieudonne Mbaya to guide MIBA to safer waters

By appointing Dieudonne Mbaya Tshakani Tshabantu chairman of the board of directors of state-owned diamond producer Societe miniere de Bakwanga [...]

GABON 26/07/2017

Alexandre Barro-Chambrier proposes himself as the third way

Having toured Europe in early July to raise awareness of the post-electoral crisis in Gabon, Alexandre Barro Chambrier, the 59-year-old [...]

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ALGERIA 27/07/2017

Georges Sioufi and Philippe Marini to work together in Algeria

ALGERIA 27/07/2017

Ould Kabila Jr. takes OnMarket to Tunisia

IVORY COAST 26/07/2017

Dramane Coulibaly in pursuit of public contracts

NIGERIA 25/07/2017

Acting president Yemi Osinbajo's potential shoulders to stand on in oil sector

Nigeria's acting president Yemi Osinbajo hasn't yet managed to rustle up support in the oil sector. Several key names could [...]

UGANDA 21/07/2017

Lwakataka, the "fisherman" who gives Museveni nightmares

Ponsanio Lwakataka, a former fisherman who joined Uganda's Internal Security Organisation (ISO) in 2006, gets more popular each time he [...]

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Special report GABON MADAGASCAR MOROCCO 17/08/2017

Conferences, the new African cash cow

Following on from gold, oil and cotton, consultants are now cashing in on the great economic gatherings and conferences being held across the continent. French firms Richard Attias & Associates [...]

Special report GABON 10/08/2017

Gabon: Ali Bongo's real challenge lies in financial crisis

Gabon's president Ali Bongo got off to a rocky start, winning an election bitterly contested by his opponent Jean Ping and apathetically validated by international courts. A year on, he [...]

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