Museveni's beloved Kabaale refinery may struggle to see light of day
The Kabaale refinery project, which the Ugandan president hopes will shore up his legacy and make the country self-sufficient in hydrocarbons, is far from being on track. [...]
At the request of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, US. Special Envoy to Sudan Donald Booth, who manages day-to-day African affairs at the State Department, is set to travel to Sudan to offer his government's guarantorship of the peace process. [...]
Bharti Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal has summoned his right-hand man in Africa Raghunath Mandava to weigh up the worth of his Kenyan business following Nairobi's request the company give up 30% of its capital to Kenyan businesses by 2024. [...]
Casa Transports wants to transform its transportation management system into a vast high-tech video surveillance system to be used by the police. China's Huawei and Hikvision are interested in the contract, as is AB Protection, whose CEO Mounir Belmahi has many ties within the Makhzen. [...]
With the social housing construction market in full swing, particularly in the Skikda and Boumerdès provinces, Groupe Bourouag Construction's activity has skyrocketed, partly thanks to the political involvement of some of its members. [...]
Eurasian Resources has set itself an ambitious goal - it wants to extract up to 20m tonnes of bauxite per year from the Telimele site in Guinea - but still needs the government's green light on its mining convention. [...]
The country's mining register, which is essential to the growth of its mining sector, is still not online even though it is now several years since software company Trimble was commissioned to prepare the operation. The problem is that the new system has not yet been updated to take account of the latest legislation. [...]
Just after former head of state Joseph Kabila pulled out of the ruling coalition, the country's chamber of mines is mulling whether to review one of his most significant achievements as president, the 2018 mining code, in order to pinpoint its strengths but also its weaknesses. [...]