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In Focus | Gabon
Gunvor secrets (1/2): the Libreville oil mega-deal mystery

Photomontage - Illustration: Julien Pacaud © N. Mukadi/AFP ; AFP

In June 2024, the Geneva-based trading company granted a $1bn loan to Gabon Oil Co to nationalise Assala Energy's assets. In exchange, the Swiss company obtained the right to market the barrels of crude extracted from these blocks.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Cameroon
US delegation heads to Yaoundé to talk critical minerals

American officials will meet with Cameroonian authorities to discuss mining projects piquing Washington's interest. Threatened with the withdrawal of its permit, the Nkamouna project, led by Phoenix Mining, is the focus of attention.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa

Guinea
How Conakry junta took control of GAC bauxite project

Pending the selection of a new mining operator, the authorities have transferred the assets of the Emirati company Guinea Alumina Corp to Nimba Mining Co, a new state firm that does not yet have a management team.

Subscribers only Mining

Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara due in New York for UN General Assembly

Alassane Ouattara speaking at the UN in New York, 21 September 2022. © Angela Weiss / AFP

The Ivorian president will travel to the United Nations headquarters in person for the first time in three years. He is expected to attend the conference for the recognition of Palestine, co-chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia, Somalia
Somali president keeps Addis guessing over GERD inauguration

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia in Stansstad near Lucerne, Switzerland, on 15 June 2024. © Michael Buholzer/Pool/Reuters

Beset by turmoil in Somalia's Gedo border region, where the Ethiopian, Kenyan and Somalian territories come together, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government is seeking concessions from Addis Ababa in return for attending the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam inauguration.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Kenya
Tea exports to Iran under threat

In the wake of a scandal surrounding sub-standard leaf imports from Kenya, Tehran is calling for a major investigation. However, a perceived lack of progress in Nairobi could derail the resumption of trade flows between the two countries.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
Maurel & Prom and BW Energy set to buy Azule Energy's Block 14 shares

Website of Azule Energy, integrated joint venture between ENI and BP based in Angola, 2023.

The Franco-Norwegian partnership is well positioned to acquire the 20% stake held by the ENI-BP joint venture in the Angolan offshore asset operated by Chevron. The deal is expected to be announced in the coming days.

Subscribers only Energy

Madagascar
Gervais Damasy, the civil aviation boss arrested in connection with Iran Boeing affair

The Madagascar civil aviation authority's director general is in preventive detention in connection with the case of Boeing 777s delivered to Iran using registrations provided by Madagascar.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

North Africa

Morocco
The 'comeback' expansion of Agadir desalination plant

This summer, Spanish group Cox announced with great fanfare that it would be financing the second phase of the Agadir desalination plant project. This phase should have been covered by the initial budget of 4.4 billion dirhams, which was approved in 2019.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

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