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Total Eren teams up with influential businessman to develop solar farm

The French renewable energy firm has joined forces with a company owned by Leonel da Rocha Pinto for a PV project in the south of the country.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 16.03.2020

Mired in crisis, Luanda turns to the AFC

Hard-hit by the continuing fall in oil prices that began at the start of the year, Angola is very keen to join the Africa Finance Corp, the pan-African multilateral banking institution based in Nigeria.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics 04.03.2020

João Lourenço sells off ‘Port Kopelipa'

For a long time managed by all the all-powerful General ‘Kopelipa', Luanda's multi-purpose terminal is to be ceded to the private sector in the spring

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 04.03.2020

João Lourenço puts faith in youth with Vera Daves de Sousa

The Angolan president João Lourenço is more than ever reliant on his 35-year-old minister of finance, Vera Daves de Sousa, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.03.2020

Ernesto Araújo prepares Bolsonaro's African tour

The Angolan minister for external relations, Manuel Domingos Augusto, was [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.03.2020

End of the Dino era

The trading company Trafigura's acquisition of the shares of the [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.03.2020

Chevron pick, Algoa's dream team ready for block 0 platform build

The offshore field Takula on block 0 off the coast of Angola's Cabinda province will soon have a new platform [...]

Free access Energy 03.03.2020

Why is attorney Gros after China International Fund, Sonangol's ally?

By seizing property from Sonangol's partner, China International Fund, the attorney general is declaring war on the architecture of Angola's relations with China, Manuel Vicente.

Subscribers only Finance, Energy 03.03.2020

Consultancy big wig Nuno de Miranda Catanas ready to try his hand at oil services?

Angolan law firm and hydrocarbons consultancy MC Jurist offers more [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.03.2020

Anglo American creates copper exploration units

Anglo American, which branched out into copper, cobalt and nickel [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.02.2020

In-house shake-up at Gemcorp, the state's favourite financier

Having become in just a few years the Angolan state's leading financial partner, the Russian-British investment firm has lost one of its key executives.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 19.02.2020

Macron in Luanda and Pretoria in May

Emmanuel Macron will make a state visit to Angola and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Sonangol privatisation: behind the scenes of Lourenço's last chance operation

While the economy is continuing to suffer with the drop in national oil output, Luanda is busy preparing the sale of the state-owned firm in the background. Here's how.