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Angola

Military Training in Return for Crude

A U.S. proposal to provide additional military and economic assistance to Gulf of Guinea nations in return for deliveries of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.11.2002

Bumper Month for Service Firms

November looks set to be a bumper month for oil services companies active in Angola. Some 10 development contracts are to be awarded.

Subscribers only Energy 05.11.2002

Spotlight
Lisbon's Carrots and Sticks

Always eager to heap criticism on the European Union's behavior towards the African states it wishes to be seen as the champion of, Portugal seems to be less understanding when it happens to be its own economic interests which are [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2002

Alrosa Anticipating De Beers' Return

Russia's Alrosa set up a new joint venture with Endiama only days after the Angolan firm and De Beers declared [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.10.2002

Luanda Seeks Mintek Expertise

The Angolan government has approached the semi-public South African research [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.10.2002

Talks on K Structure

Congo's oil minister, Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, travelled to Luanda late last week to negotiate with his Angolan counter-part, Jose Maria [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.10.2002

Where Did $900 Million Go?

The BBC has cited an internal report by the International Monetary Fund indicating that nearly $900 million disappeared from Angola's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.10.2002

Decision Soon on Cravo/Lirio

The French group TotalFinaElf that operates on block 17 is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.10.2002

Advising Sonangol

The investment banking arm of the Dresdner Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.10.2002

Forging Common Stand on US

Under pressure from the Bush administration which is seeking to boost oil imports from Africa to reduce its dependency on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2002

Sonangol's Lobbyist

Since last month a firm run by Thomas Bogg, one [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2002

Sexwale Champions Trans Hex

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that last week's award of the Luarica and Fucauma concessions to Trans Hex resulted from nearly eight months of lobbying by Tokyo Sexwale

Subscribers only Mining 01.10.2002

Calvyn Gardner

The chief executive officer of the Trans Hex Group, Calvyn Gardner, has taken effective charge of the South African diamond [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.10.2002

Auditors Knock on the Door

A visit to Luanda by Callisto Madavo, the World Bank's vice president for Africa, between Sept. 9-12 put the seal [...]