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ANGOLA 10/12/2019

Lourenço's hype over copper assets works on AngloAmerican and Pengxin

Angolan President João Lourenço has been working hard to convince foreign firms to invest in the country's diamond sector but also its copper assets and his efforts are beginning to pay off. [...]

SUDAN Corridors of power 29/11/2019

Americans determined to shore up Khartoum government

The US Special Envoy for Sudan, Donald Booth, and the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, [...]

IVORY COAST 09/12/2019

State negotiates purchase of Ciprel V shares

The Ivorian government wants to take a stake in a thermal power plant near the country's economic capital. [...]

MOZAMBIQUE TANZANIA 06/12/2019

PAL Aerospace, AFRICOM's lookout in the Mozambique Channel

Contracted in mid-September by AFRICOM (US Africa Command) to monitor the Seychelles' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) (see our article dated [...]

GABON Document 04/12/2019

Gloves come off in secretive crackdown on Brice Laccruche Alihanga

In the absence of the president Ali Bongo, who returned to Libreville on 27 November after a stay in London, the Gabonese courts swiftly launched an anti-corruption drive that is targeting as a priority the allies of the president's former chief of staff [...]

The Tamoil refinery in Collombey, Switzerland ©Reuters

Focus ANGOLA 02/12/2019

Battle rages over Swiss oil refinery removal plan

NIGERIA 03/12/2019

Project Star: Chevron's stealth mission to raise the bids for OMLs 86 and 88

LIBYA Corridors of power 05/12/2019

Athens backs Aguila Salah Issa against Ankara

Tobruk House of Representatives president Aguila Salah Issa is to go to Athens shortly at the invitation of his Greek [...]

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SUDAN 10/12/2019

Ties to former regime costs SMRC its head

It was as much his ties to the country's security services and his connections with the deposed Sudanese president Omar [...]

MOROCCO 05/12/2019

DLA Piper revises "13-09" renewables law for Rabbah

Ten years after it was adopted, the 13-09 law on "renewable" private sector electricity production is to be radically revised. The reform, which was been drawn up with the help of law firm DLA Piper, could open up a breach [...]

FRANCE AFRICA 04/12/2019

MP Bruno Fuchs' African network

The government-allied MoDem MP and former PR advisor, Bruno Fuchs, has been behind several African initiatives over the last year. [...]

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ZAMBIA 10/12/2019

Relocations take toll on ZCCM-IH's manganese goals

LIBYA 05/12/2019

Béatrice Hellen Le Fraper closes the embassy's economic service

GABON 04/12/2019

One reshuffle after another…

ALGERIA 03/12/2019

The political-military currents that cost Hachichi his Sonatrach posting

It was, according to our sources, Gen. Ouassini Bouazza, the man who has been at the helm of the country's [...]

HORN OF AFRICA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 29/11/2019

The likely repercussions of a DP World comeback in Djibouti

According to information obtained exclusively by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, the current love-in between the Franco-Djiboutian businessman Abdourahman Mahamoud Boreh and President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) looks like leading to a second honeymoon (ION 1507). And indirectly, this could have [...]

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MADAGASCAR 10/12/2019

Government wants to raise its share of mining output and royalties

As much as for its novel approach as for the lack of prior consultation before the draft, the Malagasy government's [...]

MAURITANIA 10/12/2019

SNIM improves cash flow by alternating buyers

Mauritania's financially-weakened national mining and industry firm Société nationale industrielle et minière (SNIM) has been able to take some of [...]

MOROCCO 05/12/2019

China's CCCC and CRCC ready to race for high-speed rail contract

The future Marrakesh-Agadir high-speed rail line contract (MC 1364) is going to be fiercely fought over by two Chinese groups. [...]

News In Brief

GUINEA 10/12/2019

Simandou: Rio Tinto and Chinalco meet their new neighbour

CENTRAL AFRICA 04/12/2019

Ecolog plays and wins

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 03/12/2019

After a long fight, a weary Total calls it a day

MOROCCO 05/12/2019

Youssef Bouabid to fill up tanks with Appollo Petroleum

Youssef Bouabid, head of asset management company Africa Capital Partners, is discreetly entering the Moroccan automobile fuel distribution market… via [...]

WEST AFRICA 04/12/2019

Alpha Condé complicates sale of BNP Paribas network

The French bank has shortlisted two candidates to take over its subsidiaries in Mali, Burkina and Guinea, but one of the two firms is not to the liking of a wary Guinean government. [...]

IVORY COAST 04/12/2019

Olam and Meridiam lobby for Yopougon industrial zone

Already partners in Mauritania and Gabon, the two infrastructure heavyweights Olam and Meridiam are pulling out all the stops to gain a foothold in Ivory Coast. [...]

NIGERIA 03/12/2019

Eland sale: Emeka Offor makes ABC spell out warranties for Seplat

While the Eland sale seems to be a sure thing, the Chrome billionaire is pressing Seplat for assurances as to its financial capacity to carry the project. [...]

MADAGASCAR 29/11/2019

Mamy Ravotomanga hooked up to Blueline's fibre?

Awaiting the sector's liberalisation, Orange and Airtel are concerned about Blueline's capital movements. [...]

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IVORY COAST 04/12/2019

Pascal Affi N'Guessan's ambitions threatened by Gbagbo bid?

With Laurent Gbagbo having confided to several of his allies in recent days that he intends to run in the [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 05/12/2019

Sarah Mezouar prepares the ground for Euros/Agency

TUNISIA 05/12/2019

I Watch head Achraf Aouadi's intervention in BFT affair rejected

MOROCCO 05/12/2019

Ex-tourism minister Mohamed Sajid rejoins family textile group Mazafil

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 03/12/2019

Gabriel Obiang Lima unveils a distinctively Nigerian Ronda 2019 list

Equatorial Guinean minister of energy Gabriel Obiang Lima's luck is down. He was unable to get a single major to [...]

MOZAMBIQUE 29/11/2019

Luís Archer to put TransMaritima back on even keel

Peschaud & Cie International's project to drop anchor in Mozambique is taking shape. The oilfield logistics firm recently teamed up [...]

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SOUTH AFRICA State Strategy Infrastructure & Power 10/12/2019

Manngwe connects into Maputo line to export iron ore to Asia Free

Manngwe Mining is looking for funds to build a siding from its mine to the railway line out to Maputo and make it easier to export its ore to Asian clients. [...]

ANGOLA Financing and advisory 10/12/2019

Cuango and Chitotolo drum up cash in London for diamond goals

Angolan firms Sociedade Mineira do Cuango and Sociedade Mineira do [...]

ZIMBABWE Financing and advisory 10/12/2019

Duff & Phelps' Mark Skelton puts ASA creditors and shareholders' minds at ease but not all repayments secured

On November 14, Mark Skelton, managing director of global restructuring [...]

GUINEA Supply Chain 10/12/2019

Calls for pollution sanctions on RusAl's processing plant

Following its on-site inspection the Friguia alumina plant in the [...]

UGANDA Supply Chain 10/12/2019

Elly Karuhanga wants a mining coordination system designed for and by Africans

Congolese civil society has been particularly vocal in its criticism [...]

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