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Fresh Start for Diamond Industry

Angola’s public group Endiama headed by Carlos Sumbula (AMI 223) is hoping to jump-start diamond production after a drastic, 22% [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Lonrho To Turn Out First Gems This Year

Lonrho Mining is pinning its hopes of producing the first diamonds from the Lulo mine in Angola’s Lunda Norte province [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Takeover Bid for Galp?

Sonangol could become the main shareholder in Portugal’s former state-owned company Galp by acquiring stakes owned by the Portuguese government and ENI.

Free access Energy 30.03.2010

Standoff over Boundary

According to our sources, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Local Banks for Oil Firms?

The Angolan government is determined to see oil companies operating [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Luanda, 4-5/05

The iPAD conference (Infrastructure Partnerships for African Development - Angola 2010), to be held in Luanda on May 4 and [...]

Free access Mining 23.03.2010

Sonangol

The chairman of Sonangol’s board, Manuel Vicente, has announced the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.03.2010

Genius Minerals Brings Back Copper Mining

Copper mining is expected to resume by the end of this year at the Mavoio mine near Maquela do Zombo [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.03.2010

Sebastião Panzo

It is transfer season in Luanda. A few months after having inherited the job of chairman of the board at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.03.2010

Luanda, 4-5/05

The iPAD conference (Infrastructure Partnerships for African Development - Angola 2010), to be held in Luanda on May 4 and [...]

Free access Mining 09.03.2010

Spotlight
The World is Sonangol’s Oyster

On the strength of its robust cash position, Angola managed to briefly overtake Nigeria as Africa’s leading oil producer last year and is now thinking in global terms. To be sure, the national oil company Sonangol is acquiring stakes in [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.03.2010

Emmanuela Viera Lopes

A cabinet reshuffle in Angola on February 3 worked to the advantage of energy minister Emmanuela Viera Lopes who was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.02.2010

Cabinda Projects Delayed After Attack

As a direct consequence of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda’s (FLEC) attack on the Togolese [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.02.2010

Sonangol

The Angolan oil group Sonangol will shortly become the leading [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.02.2010

Patton Boggs

The American lobbying firm is now representing Africa's two biggest [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.02.2010

Export Potential in Sight

Angola’s energy minister has so many electricity projects in various stages of development at the moment that the end result [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.01.2010

Sonangol Sees Big Future Abroad

Sonangol is thinking of raising money on the stock exchange to finance the development of two concessions it was awarded in Iraq.