Businessman Mohamed Ould Bouamatou, the scourge of President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. ©CC MAURITANIA Published on 25/04/2018 Consultants and lawyers already winning in Aziz vs Bouamatou war
Congo-B Denis Sassou Nguesso is in a very precarious economic position. ©Antoine Gyori - Corbis CONGO-B Published on 14/11/2017 Exclusive: The financial acrobatics of a government walking a tightrope
Filipe Nyusi MOZAMBIQUE Published on 16/02/2017 President Filipe Nyusi’s northern allies on the look-out for good deals
Corridors of power 19/02/2019 Malabo counts on tax incentives to attract miners to kick-start sector To convince investors to take part in the country's very [...]
Oil 12/02/2019 French boss Jacoulot could be Trident's downfall on Zafiro The firm headed by former Perenco execs is struggling to get Malabo's go-ahead to purchase the country's largest oil field from ExxonMobil. [...]
Breaking news 06/02/2019 Indaba 2019: Gabriel Obiang reveals details of Rio Muni call for tenders Later today, on 6 February, the Equatorial Guinean minister of mines and hydrocarbons, Gabriel Obiang, will officially issue his country's [...]
Corridors of power 30/01/2019 Rome's renewed interest in military base On a visit to Niger on 15 January, the Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte revived the project to set up [...]
Spotlight Oil Document 29/01/2019 Clash between team Teodorin and team Gabriel over oil matters As he works to gain control of all the levers of power, Equatorial Guinean vice president Teodorin Obiang Nguema is finding himself increasingly up against his half-brother, the minister of mines, industry and energy Gabriel Obiang Lima, who sits at [. [...]
Oil 29/01/2019 Fortuna: why Ophir was tempted with arbitration According to our sources, last week the interim chief executive [...]
Power brokers 29/01/2019 Persona non grata with the Obiangs, Ophir counts on Adel Chaouch After being refused a second one-year extension to its block R by the Equatorial Guinean minister of mines and energy [...]
Corridors of power 16/01/2019 Doha takes (military) lead over Riyadh Until now rather reluctant to get involved in the military sphere in Africa, Qatar nevertheless donated twenty-four armoured vehicles to [...]
Gas 15/01/2019 Gabriel Obiang's reasons for ejecting Ophir from Fortuna The licence for block R, which contains the gas deposit Fortuna, expired on December 31. Africa Energy Intelligence was able to read the letter by which the oil minister terminated the contract. [...]
Power brokers 15/01/2019 With New Age era over Steve Lowden advises Gabriel Obiang over Fortuna According to our sources, New Age founder and former chairman, Steve Lowden, who was shown the door in August last [...]
Corridors of power 02/01/2019 Doha asserts itself With Saudi Arabia becoming mired in the war Yemen, on [...]
Oil 02/01/2019 Why Teodorin could block Trident's bid for Zafiro with ExxonMobil? Trident Energy could very well find itself caught up in local politics and add another setback to its let-down in Tunisia. [...]
Oil 11/12/2018 Kosmos comes to Ophir Energy's rescue Unable to put together the funds needed to develop Fortuna, the British junior has Kosmos' financial backing to explore its new block. [...]
Spotlight Exploration-Production 04/12/2018 How the Obiang family plans to take on the mining sector The oil-impassioned Equatorial Guinea now has plans to make 2019 a year of mining. With the help of veteran consultants, the minister of mines and hydrocarbons in Malabo, Gabriel Obiang Lima, son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, is drafting a [. [...]
Spotlight Corridors of power 28/11/2018 Why African presidents are looking beyond France for their healthcare For many years regulars at the Val de Grace military hospital in Paris, African heads of state are now increasingly likely to get their check-ups in Saudi Arabia, Morocco or Israel rather than checking into a clinic in the French [. [...]
Oil 27/11/2018 Can Total take block despite resistance from Teodorin Obiang? Free After many twists and turns and misunderstandings, Total hopes to pick up the Equatorial Guinean offshore block EG-18, previously promised [...]
Oil 27/11/2018 Trident puts affairs in order to take Zafiro for ExxonMobil With backing from shareholder Warburg Pincus, Trident is setting up an operation to buy the American major's shares in the country's largest producing field, Zafiro. [...]
Oil 27/11/2018 Schlumberger/TechnipFMC meet halfway while Subsea7 sinks Prompted by the sluggish sector, oil minister Gabriel Obiang Lima, has decided to sanction services companies that do not work with local partners. [...]
Oil 13/11/2018 Gabriel Obiang Lima cracks down on TechnipFMC and Schlumberger The minister has toughened up and taken action against the two oil services giants TechnipFMC and Schlumberger. [...]
Electricity 13/11/2018 Pro-Russia Ukrainian mystery firm Duglas Alliance well received in Malabo The only project unknown firm Duglas Alliance, which has close ties to a former pro-Russia Ukrainian minister of energy, appears to have on the go is the Sendje mega dam. [...]
Business circles 31/10/2018 French expertise deployed in Chad A delegation from the French agency for technical cooperation, Expertise [...]
Corridors of power 30/10/2018 President scion Gabriel Obiang to ease throttle on Fortuna project operated by ophir According to our sources, Equatorial Guinean petroleum minister Gabriel Obiang [...]
Spotlight Business circles 17/10/2018 Moscow's mission creep Although the security and extractive sectors were its first port of call in francophone Africa, in particular in late 2017, post-Soviet Russia is intending in the very near future to diversify its activities by branching out into other sectors. [...]
Business circles 17/10/2018 Ethiopian Airlines swoops on local airlines The first flight of Tchadia Airlines signals the growing influence of the Ethiopian airline in the sub-region. [...]
Business circles 17/10/2018 Orange consents to a €40 million ‘discount' for Malabo The lawyer Jean-Charles Tchikaya has been at the forefront of [...]