The family-run junior oil company Perenco has shut out the competition by bringing out the big guns to win the contract for the Kombi, Likalala and Libondo II fields, with former SNPC boss Denis Gokana lending a helping hand.
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Israel Shipyards has started sea trials of a third Shaldag MK II patrol craft to be sent to the Senegalese navy midway through this year. Dakar is making headway in its ambitious programme to strengthen its maritime surveillance capacities.
After being downgraded by several rating agencies as a result of its acquisition of the struggling junior Eland Oil & Gas, Seplat Petroleum is hoping its advisors will help raise its credibility.
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Energy The new international communications advisor at the Elysée Palace, Anne-Sophie Bradelle, appointed in late March, has a strong background in African politics. When on assignment with Euro RSCG, now Havas, she was involved in Guinean Alpha Condé's successful presidential bid in 2010 and Thomas Boni Yayi's winning campaign in Benin the following year.
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Diplomacy The ICSID is ready to start the arbitral proceedings requested by trader Gerald Group to seek damages from the Sierra Leone government for withdrawing its rights to the Marampa iron ore mine.
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Uganda is paying a high price for its involvement in the Amisom, adding to UPDF joint chief-of-staff Joseph Musanyufu's moves to prepare his withdrawal from the conflict.
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Diplomacy The Italian entrepreneur Alfonso Ippolito who has been working to get a solar power project off the ground in Kenya since 2014 is on the hunt for new investors to take over.
Valdomiro "Minoru" Dondo, the Brazilian businessman of Japanese origin who was omnipresent under the presidency of José Eduardo dos Santos, has not lost a scrap of his influence since João Lourenço came to power.
The Madagascan government has become concerned about the economic consequences and the political instability that the lockdown could create.
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Business The Tracr software platform, which is supposed to guarantee traceability in the chain of production of diamonds mined by the De Beers group in southern Africa, has been targeted by legal action by a former Boston Consulting Group employee, who claims to have contributed to its development without being properly rewarded for his work.
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A financially damaging cocktail of higher wheat prices, poor harvests and the collapse of the oil market is stirring Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's fears of public unrest as Ramadan starts.
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Business In another case of revolving doors, RNI cadres now have key roles in the subsidiary of the agriculture minister's Akwa Holding.
