Major Works Minister Jean-Jacques Bouya continues to extend his influence in the key non-oil economic sectors.
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During Vital Kamerhe's trial, the lawyer representing the state (as civil party to the case) Coco Kayudi, made mention of the existence of a property in France belonging to Félix Tshisekedi's former chief of staff.
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By appointing a new Africa director, CFI Media Development hopes everyone will forget the Ignace Sossou saga that caused dismay within the France Media Monde subsidiary.
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Politics In 2018, A-NSE, a French company currently in safeguard proceedings, supplied several surveillance blimps to Niger, which has yet to make payment. Niamey says in an audit the firm did not deliver what it ordered.
At the suggestion of several military doctors who had previously been at Paris's Val de Grace Hospital, the privately owned American Hospital of Paris, which has traditionally been a favourite with ailing African VIPs, reinvented itself as a specialised Covid-19 treatment centre for the duration of the crisis
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Chargé d'affaires Inmi Patterson has issued several alerts about Tanzania's management of the Covid-19 pandemic, incurring the wrath of Foreign Minister Palamagamba Kabudi.
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First Quantum subsidiary Kansanshi Mining, which has begun proceedings before World Bank arbitration body ICSID to obtain repayment of millions dollars of taxes from the Zambian state, has brought in a lawyer with a lot of experience in fighting its adversary.
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Mining Zimbabwe hopes it will be able to coax multinationals back to the country and inject fresh energy into its mining sector with the opening of a stock market denominated in US dollars, the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange.
French major Total is now the owner of an 80% interest in block 21/09 and 50% in block 20/11 previously owned by the now folded Cobalt International Energy.
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Energy On 6 June the Angolan government signed a financing agreement with the African Development Bank that should pave the way for two tenders.
EY has been entrusted with the vast audit of the Libyan sovereign wealth fund amid an escalating row between the authority's chairman Ali Mahmoud Hassan and prime minister Fayez Sarraj, who would like to see him gone by the end of the month.
The state oil firm has awarded the construction of an LPG bottle-filling centre in Tataouine to Turkish firm Cryocan. The facility is part of the South Tunisian Gas Project, designed to boost the region's ailing economy.
