UCB, the official drinks supplier of the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations, is threatening to take African football's governing body to court for breach of contract. The bone of contention is the presence of its rival Castel at fringe tournament venues. [...]
There has been no dialogue between the Cameroonian government and Anglophone separatists in the North-West and South-West regions since the crisis began in 2016. In the run-up to the Africa Cup of Nations, a string of ill-prepared initiatives from the English-speaking separatists has failed to change the situation. [...]
The Swiss commodities trader Vitol has become a trump card in British junior Savannah's game. In exchange for financial support for Savannah's purchase of ExxonMobil-Petronas's Doba assets, it should end up well placed to market the crude produced there. [...]
Perenco's negotiations for the takeover of three blocks in the Ivorian offshore have been dragging on for several months. Africa Intelligence reveals the reasons behind this stalemate. [...]
Burkina Faso withdrew Patel's permit for the Inata mine because it deemed his firm, Balaji, had neither spent enough money on it nor done enough work at the site. Patel is now pulling out all the stops to make sure the same thing doesn't happen at his Kalsaka gold mine. [...]
Engaged in a major conversion to #biofuels, @eni wants to provide this global industry with fuel supplies from non-oil-producing African countries such as Benin and Rwanda, as well as from the key oil-producing countries like Congo, Angola and Mozambique https://t.co/1VP5zoqV1l
A $58m contract to renew #DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi's armoured vehicles fleet has been "provisionally" awarded to a company owned by entrepreneur Idro Taban with many interests in #Uganda. https://t.co/R9ynMaDLMG
After more than 10 years of stalemate, #Tunisia's #phosphate transport issue may be about to be resolved: the SNCFT is hoping to resume rail renovation work, thereby making the country's ore more attractive to its regional rival, OCP https://t.co/SNxQJE9YSx
