The Harel family has sold its financial arm to Axis Fiduciary. The young trust company now finds itself up against the families firmly established in offshore finance on the island - Ah-Chuen, Lagesse, Dalais or Espitalier-Noel - as well as stiffer competition from international groups.
Having failed to break into Guinea, Australia's Fortescue Metals Group is looking for new energy opportunities in DRC.
Despite promises to the contrary, the cobalt trading subsidiary currently being set up by state-owned Gécamines will benefit from the moratorium, enabling it to get round the provisions of the mining code and export unprocessed cobalt directly from the DRC.
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The presidential coalition is forecasting that its champion, Alassane Ouattara, will win the elections in the first round with a score of 65%. It is counting on high abstention levels in regions traditionally loyal to Laurent Gbagbo
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Politics Cypriot company Sycamore Mining applied in early August for a production permit for the Kiniero gold mine.
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Mining US defence and logistics giant Pacific Architects & Engineers was selected on 12 August to equip Senegalese airports with its Automated Targeting System.
There are many contenders vying for Anadarko's former African portfolio but Occidental Petroleum, the company who took control of the assets last year, is keeping a tight lid on any information about the candidates.
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After having failed to sell his luxury resort hotel on the Kenyan coast, Flavio Briatore has been unsuccesful in attracting investors for his planned new tourism complex in Nairobi.
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Several up and coming figures within Mozambique's LNG industry recently joined the board at JFT, the consortium between JGC, Fluor and TechnipFMC.
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Huawei Technologies Morocco, which does business with some of the kingdom's most influential figures - from the king's private secretary Mounir el-Majidi to police chief Abdellatif Hammouchi -, is feeling the heat of the US's retaliation measures against its parent company.
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Business Small security company Shield Bouclier is to provide security at the new airport terminal's sole business hotel, which is owned by state-owned holding company SIH. It had previously worked for China's CSCEC group, which built the hotel and terminal and is a business partner of SIH.
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Business Ever since the military seized power in Mali on 18 August, Morocco has been building ties with the coup leaders as Algiers, wanting to retain its influence in Bamako, looks on with a wary eye.
