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SPOTLIGHT NIGERIA 26/09/2017

Delta State militants change tack to move into oil security

With a long-standing presence in Nigeria's Delta State, service company Fenog Nigeria has been busy snapping up oil services contracts worth several tens of millions of dollars, using the help of protectors that companies are hard pressed to say no [...]

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Corridors of power SUDAN 22/09/2017

Does lifting sanctions depend on normalising relations with Israel?

Statements made in late August by the deputy prime minister and minister for investment, Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi, concerning relations between Sudan and Israel have triggered a polemic. Is Omar al-Bashir's regime going to have to establish closer ties with Benjamin [...]

Gas MOZAMBIQUE 26/09/2017

After block 4, ExxonMobil takes aim at block 1

Having had its sights set on picking up Anadarko's shares for some time, the American major is on busy trying to become the top dog in Cabo Delgado's offshore. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN Document 22/09/2017

Trump Tower lookalike for the minister of cabinet affairs

Martin Elia Lomuro is about to become the owner of a building reminiscent of a truncated Trump Tower © DR

LIBYA 21/09/2017

Ghassan Salame faces competition on all sides

Even before presenting his "road map" to the United Nations on September 20, UN special Libya envoy Ghassan Salame was confronted with competing initiatives from Tunisia, Egypt and even Congo-Brazzaville. In Tunis, Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi is trying to [...]

NIGER 19/09/2017

The juniors laying money on an uranium upturn

While French nuclear group Areva has put its Nigerien Imouraren uranium project under wraps for the time being, some investors are taking the opposite approach. With optimism abound, they are banking on prices recovering and jostling to get a foothold [...]

SOMALILAND 22/09/2017

The Emirates count on Musa Bihi to parry the Saudis

The Emirates government is prepared to support the Kulmiye party's candidate in the president election in Hargeisa. His opponent, meanwhile, is toeing the Saudi line. [...]

MOROCCO 21/09/2017

All change for Jouahri, Baraka and Zaaboul

Mohammed VI having extended his stay in Paris, Rabat high society is buzzing with speculation over the game of musical [...]

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UGANDA 22/09/2017

The National Security Council, a pro-Museveni instrument

Theoretically a consultative body, the NSC has become the president's direct line to the police, whose activities are becoming increasingly [...]

MOROCCO 21/09/2017

Benatiq struggles with ECOWAS quandary

Morocco's application to join ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States), which it launched soon after its return to [...]

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MADAGASCAR 22/09/2017

A former minister refuses to pay his fines

TUNISIA 21/09/2017

Maher Sellami lands Chahed office job

BURKINA FASO 19/09/2017

Oumarou Idani counting on Rabat's help in mining sector

ALGERIA 26/09/2017

Boutarfa network holds strong to hog all key executive ministerial positions

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 26/09/2017

Teodoro Obiang's gas diplomacy at play in Burkina Faso

NIGER 12/09/2017

CNPC ditches all Agadem's crude export projects for time being

NIGER 19/09/2017

Niamey invents new permits to help fill State coffers

Nigerien mines minister Hassane Barazé Moussa, who wants to increase the number of active mines in the country and extend [...]

UNITED STATES AFRICA 13/09/2017

Donald Trump names his ambassadors

After months of procrastination, the American president has more or less finalised his diplomatic representation in Africa. [...]

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AFRICA 26/09/2017

ICSID newcomers well versed in African oil

Many of the latest arbitrators appointed to the World Bank's tribunal have a strong background in the continent's oil sector. [...]

MADAGASCAR 22/09/2017

Turbulence on the horizon for Air Madagascar

Negotiations between Air Madagascar and Air Austral are dragging on and threatening to scuttle the partnership. [...]

ALGERIA 21/09/2017

Tahkout bids for leadership of auto spare parts market with PEC

Mahieddine Tahkout is sparing no effort to establish himself in a leading position in the automobile industry. His factory in [...]

TANZANIA 19/09/2017

Norton Rose, Barrick's envoy to John Magufuli

Caught in fiscal wrangle with president John Magufuli over Acacia Mining, Canadian firm Barrick Gold has roped in law firm Norton Rose to handle talks with Tanzania. [...]

CHAD 13/09/2017

Inquiry into Air Inter 1 aircraft in Syria and Iran

The Chadian aviation authority is looking into the operations of this local airline. [...]

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SENEGAL 26/09/2017

Macky Sall's oil joker, Mansour Elimane Kane

President Macky Sall has appointed an oil minister for the first time. The sector has previously been under the wing [...]

MOZAMBIQUE 22/09/2017

Lawyer Pedro Macaringue stakes out his mining claim

The Mozambican lawyer Pedro Macaringue seems determined to carve himself out a niche in his country's mining sector. In March, [...]

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MOROCCO 21/09/2017

Malak Benchakroun to co-pilot PSA in the Maghreb

TUNISIA 21/09/2017

Condor director Amir Benhamadi goes into consulting

TOGO 13/09/2017

Jose Symenouh expands La Protectrice Assurances

CONGO-K 19/09/2017

Simon Youds' plans to defuse diggers' revolt

Australian entrepreneur Simon Youds, who develops gold projects in the Maniema province of eastern Congo-K via the firm he heads, [...]

IVORY COAST 13/09/2017

DTTV, the new battlefield for national and foreign operators

The opening up of the Ivorian audiovisual landscape has triggered a war without mercy between operators keen to tap into lucrative advertising revenues. The French businessmen Martin Bouygues, Vincent Bollore and Xavier Niel, along with the Ivorian tycoon Jean-Philippe Kabore, [...]

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Spotlight NIGERIA 26/09/2017

Delta State militants change tack to move into oil security

GHANA IVORY COAST 26/09/2017

Adama Toungara's failure on the border

As foreseen, in the late morning of September 23, the [...]

NIGERIA 26/09/2017

Could Seven Energy be saved by Savannah Petroleum?

Seven Energy, the Nigerian exploration and production firm also active [...]

UGANDA 26/09/2017

Oranto finalises its arrival on the shores of Lake Albert

Any minute now, oil magnate Arthur Eze's junior Oranto should [...]

TANZANIA 26/09/2017

Augusta Energy reigns supreme over Zanzibar

Swiss oil trading firm Augusta Energy will defend its title [...]

GUINEA 26/09/2017

Sapetro came, saw and moved on as Hyperdynamics stays put

The disappointing drilling results on the Guinean offshore Fatala-1 well [...]

IVORY COAST 26/09/2017

End of PanAtlantic's offshore adventure

American junior PanAtlantic (formerly known as Vanco) has closed the [...]

ALGERIA 26/09/2017

Boutarfa network holds strong to hog all key executive ministerial positions

Noureddine Boutarfa's short stint at Algeria's ministry of energy lasting [...]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 26/09/2017

Teodoro Obiang's gas diplomacy at play in Burkina Faso

Always seeking more influence across the continent, Equatorial Guinean president [...]

RWANDA 26/09/2017

Oslo ready to strike in Kigali

Norway is continuing to make gains in the African energy [...]

BURUNDI 26/09/2017

As EU backtracks, Bujumbura counts on Beijing for power

Even as the European Union, which had slapped sanctions on [...]

NIGERIA 26/09/2017

Californian bankers would like Alison-Madueke's assets Free

The Farmers and Merchant Bank is trying to block the United States' attempt to seize two California villas offered to the former Nigerian oil minister. [...]

NIGERIA MOROCCO 26/09/2017