Dutch development agency FMO and the African Development Bank have opened an investigation into the financing of the Sendou power station by a group of promoters led by Stockholm-based businessman Louis Claude Norland Suzor. The two institutions have invested over $110 million in the power station with little to show for it.
The deployment of US defence contractors to support Congolese military engineers will boost security cooperation between Washington and Kinshasa as the Chinese engineering contingent deployed within MONUSCO leaves the country.
The US major has appointed a number of new executives to take charge of the sale of its unwanted fields to Nigerian operators.
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Energy After being pushed out of Gambia, the Norwegian-Emirati firm has struck a highly favourable deal with the state, taking over a block that will cost it nothing for twelve months and is located close to a site where the British major is scheduled to drill.
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Energy Le président français se rendra en Angola et en Afrique du Sud au mois de décembre pour une mini-tournée africaine de plusieurs jours.
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As it negotiates to re-establish relations with the International Monetary Fund, Sudan is under pressure to better control its gold exports. The trouble is, the yellow metal's leading dealers sit on the ruling Sovereign Council.
A five-minister delegation will arrive in Paris on 29 September with President Uhuru Kenyatta to discuss business and to boost Amina Mohamed's bid to take the helm of the WTO.
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Despite a meeting between Ambassador Christophe Bouchard and President Andry Rajoelina, relations between Paris and Antananarivo remain frosty.
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Diplomacy Oil minister Diamantino Azevedo has officially sounded the final whistle for Brazilian giant Odebrecht on the Angolan block 16, operated by Total
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The Kuwaiti company is fighting to the bitter end to keep hold of the Libyan sovereign fund's French assets it seized seven years ago, but the arbitration ruling behind the confiscation has been reversed in Egypt.
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Business On 1 October, Mauritian national André Baya will become international Chief Operating Officer at Managem, the mining company controlled by Mohammed VI's royal holding company Al Mada.
