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Focus ANGOLA 02/12/2019

Battle rages over Swiss oil refinery removal plan

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 [...]

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. [...]

LIBYA 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 [...]

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 [...]

SUDAN 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, [...]

NIGERIA 03/12/2019

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

SIERRA LEONE Exploration-production 26/11/2019

Could RusAl help ramp up bauxite production?

Sierra Leone has its hopes riding on Russian firms to help increase its national bauxite output. When in Sochi for [...]

Corridors of power

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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. [...]

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 [...]

News In Brief

LIBYA 05/12/2019

Béatrice Hellen Le Fraper closes the embassy's economic service

GABON 04/12/2019

One reshuffle after another…

ETHIOPIA 29/11/2019

Mysterious attacks against Tigray Special Forces

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 [...]

GUINEA 26/11/2019

Alpha Condé picks Putin over Friedland's mines

When invited to visit the Kamoa-Kakula and Kipushi mining projects developed by Ivanhoe Mines in the DRC and its Platreef [...]

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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. [...]

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. [...]

News In Brief

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

KENYA |SOMALIA 29/11/2019

Oman and Iran opt for Somalian over Kenyan beef

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. [...]

MOZAMBIQUE 03/12/2019

Block 4: Galp and Kogas put the brakes on ExxonMobil

The supermajor is fed up with waiting on its partners to gather enough funds for its block 4 LNG 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. [...]

GUINEA 26/11/2019

How Sycamore landed the Kiniero gold contract

Sycamore Mining made its début on the Guinean mining scene this month after taking over the Kiniero gold mine that the Conakry government has been trying to get back on its feet since 2014. The newcomer may not have many [...]

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Power brokers

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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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CHAD Infrastructure & Power 09/12/2019

Class action lawsuit by David Terrassement ex-employees in the courts again

N'Djamena appeals court could delay case of 1,215 plaintiffs of former Bouygues subsidiary by several months. [...]

GHANA Infrastructure & Power 09/12/2019

AFC finances third of Takoradi port extension

Africa Finance Corp. to invest $158 million in the construction of new container terminal. [...]

LIBYA Business circles 05/12/2019

France to supply Tripoli with brand new fire engines Free

France is to supply new fire engines to the Tripoli government's civil security service, according to our information. The delivery [...]

NORTH AFRICA Power brokers 05/12/2019

Emmanuel Macron's impossible north-south summit

The Sommet des Deux Rives (Two Shores Summit) promoted by [...]

LIBYA Power brokers 05/12/2019

Abdelhadi Al Houij is Nicolas Dupont-Aignan's guest in Paris

Abdelhadi Al Houij, foreign minister in the dissident government in [...]

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