Luanda and US electricity giant GE are asking a New York court to drop the charges brought against them by Portuguese businessman Ricardo Leito Machado.
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) will try to quickly discover if the mineral deposits mined by Sino-Congolese joint venture Sicomines are sufficent to enable the DRC to repay China's investment costs in the venture or if China should be given free access to other sites, as the agreement at the origin of the project provides.
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Mining As well as selling off part of its non-operating assets in Congo, ENI is hoping to divest itself of the non-essential blocks that it operates there.
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Energy For the past year, the IMF has kept postponing the payout of the tranches of a loan it granted Congo in July 2019. Budget minister Ludovic Ngatsé and a select team have been mandated to get the country out of this financial limbo.
Determined to run for president on 31 October, Alassane Ouattara has already been dishing out ministry portfolios for his future third term.
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Politics The Nigerian Benedict Peters has retained the services of David Urban, a star lobbyist in Trump's Washington, in the hope of winning the favours of the current occupant of the White House. By cosying up to Trump on his favourite terrain - the trade war against Beijing - Peters is hoping that the president will help him to regain his influence in Nigeria, though he may find himself back at square one if Biden prevails in November.
Two years after having been chosen to be the home of the African Union's African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) against competition from Botswana and Ghana, Guinea is preparing to finalise the project.
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Mining Run by the Nigerians Tope Lawani and Babatunde Soyoye from London, the pan-African private equity firm Helios is putting the final touches to Helios Fairfax Partners Corp (HFP), its joint fund with Fairfax Africa owned by the Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa.
Uhuru Kenyatta's unofficial successor Raila Odinga has been weakened by the very public dissension of his son and his political adversaries are seeking to exploit the situation.
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Politics The Ethiopian Air Force has validated European aircraft manufacturer Airbus's technical offer for the sale of 18 military helicopters and two cargo aircraft to Addis Ababa.
Khendhrah Silverbridge, a legal advisor to political outsiders, acted for many months on behalf of a powerful client in Malawi: Atupele Muluzi of the United Democratic Front opposition party, an ex-minister with ever-growing political ambitions.
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Central Bank Governor Al Seddik Omar Al Kabir wants to extend one of his lieutenants' term as chairman of the bank, which could end up receiving all national oil revenues.
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