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Small-scale mining 18/07/2017

UNDP gives small-scale gemstone mining formal framework

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) expects to implement its [...]

Business circles 12/07/2017

Why Gilbert Nkana Pondy is joining the staff of Camrail

Paul Biya's appointment in June of Gilbert Nkana Pondy as [...]

Electricity 27/06/2017

EDF and SFI get Nachtigal dam back on track

The 420 MW Nachtigal dam project on the Sanaga River, sixty kilometers from Yaounde, has reached a key milestone. The [...]

Electricity 13/06/2017

All-clear for Nyong power plant workers

Two years after signing a MoU with Cameroonian water and energy minister, local law firm Nyong Power Plants Corp (NPPC) [...]

Corridors of power 31/05/2017

Rather gloomy national holiday in Paris

It can hardly be said that the 200 guests who gathered in the Pavillon Dauphine in Paris on May 20 [...]

Business circles 16/05/2017

Tower Resources in the red and future looks uncertain

Having failed to find a partner to share the cost [...]

Business circles 16/05/2017

Bowleven still chopping heads

In mid-March, the new management of Scottish firm Bowleven, whose [...]

Power brokers 03/05/2017

Mebe Ngo’o sees off his rival in Camair-Co affair

Transport minister Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o won his fight against his rival, junior minister Mefiro Oumarou, getting him fired "at [...]

Business circles 02/05/2017

SNH’s feud with LEN Holding drags on and on

LEN Holding is pushing to cancel its sentence to pay SNH more than CFA 2 billion on account of its poor financial management of Cameroon firm IBC. [...]

Business circles 25/04/2017

New defeat for opponent to financing of Geovic

Economist Eugene Nyambal has been struck another blow in his legal fight against the IMF’s funding of the Geovic mine project in Cameroon. [...]

Business circles 19/04/2017

Camair-Co falls victim to political lethargy

The near-bankrupt situation of Cameroon Airlines Corporation (Camair-Co) clearly doesn’t [...]

Oil 11/04/2017

Bowleven lurches from crisis to crisis

While Scottish junior Bowleven’s latest general meeting ousted managing director [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 29/03/2017

Camairco fixes new flight plan as fog sets in

Transport minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o tabled an umpteenth plan [...]

Electricity 28/03/2017

Can Hydromine stick to schedule for its mega-dam?

American firm Hydromine (AEI 789), which is planning to build [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 28/03/2017

Bakassi Ouest still weighs on SDX Energy’s accounts

Despite withdrawing from the Bakassi Ouest block last June (AEI [...]

BUSINESSMEN 28/03/2017

Balkany and Lechartier, the future cow-boys of Bowleven

Scottish junior Bowleven’s largest shareholder Crown Ocean Capital, is pushing for the nomination of two new directors to flip the [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 15/03/2017

French lead the pack but position shaky

French companies still have the edge against ever-rising competition. But for how much longer? [...]

Gas 14/03/2017

Etinde gas poses geopolitical teaser

Cameroon wants to process gas from the Etinde field in Equatorial Guinea but field operator New Age does not agree. [...]

Electricity 14/03/2017

Hydromine works hard to win approval for its mega-dam

After having abandoned its plans to mine bauxite at Ngaoundai and Minim-Martap (AMI 199), US company Hydromine has now set [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 14/03/2017

Will Victoria Oil deal reassure Bowleven shareholders ?

Crown Ocean Capital (COC), the Monaco-based fund which holds 10% [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 28/02/2017

New flare-up in fight between Bowleven and its shareholders

In the run-up to what promises to be a tense [...]

POWER BROKERS 15/02/2017

Ivo Desancio Yenwo, Biya’s real PR man

The ceremony organized on Feb. 8 at the presidential palace in honour of the national football team, the "Indomitable Lions", [...]

Oil 31/01/2017

Crown Ocean Capital throws down gauntlet to Bowleven

Unhappy over the dividends it receives from Bowleven, its stakeholder Crown Ocean wants to fire the firm’s bosses and revise strategy. [...]

Electricity 31/01/2017

Joule Africa sees Kunert as the man to build up its business

The British firm Joule Africa appears to be counting a lot on Paul Kunert, whom it recently hired as its [...]

Spotlight Exploration & Production 24/01/2017

Biya’s smoke-and-mirrors mining act

Confronted with the drop in the oil price, like all his counterparts in the Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon’s highly-secretive president, Paul Biya, is trying to both court mining operators on one hand and butter up international institutions that regulate the [...]

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