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Business Power 16/09/2020

Globeleq appeals fiscal authority's claim for back tax

Le producteur britannique d'électricité Globeleq Africa, qui opère depuis 2014 la centrale au gaz de Kribi et celle au fuel lourd de Dibamba, a maille à partir avec le fisc camerounais. [...]

Business 14/09/2020

Short of viable planes, Camair-Co under pressure after ministers' road accident

Forced to travel by road for want of available Camair-Co aircraft, three government ministers ended up in a river. The accident puts the national carrier's management in a bind. [...]

Diplomacy Mining 04/09/2020

How rare earths and evangelicals brought Trump closer to Bujumbura

US Special Envoy J. Peter Pham, mender-in-chief of fences between Bujumbura and Washington, with Burundi's late president, Pierre Nkurunziza. ©J. Peter Pham/Twitter

Business 01/09/2020

LafargeHolcim: why Biya wants French head of local branch out

Cameroonian president Paul Biya has been urging his teams to put order within the country's partially state-owned companies. ©Reuters

Oil & gas 28/08/2020

Glencore takes SONARA to court over unpaid invoices

The Swiss trading company Glencore is not intending to make life easy for SONARA, which has been in serious financial difficulty since a fire wreaked damage on its facilities in Limbe. [...]

Politics 21/08/2020

Cameroon's rival factions clash over every government initiative as end of Biya's reign looms

Cameroonian President Paul Biya. ©CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

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Oil & gas Politics 30/07/2020

Powerful SNH and SONARA crystallize anger of English-speaking regions

The two state oil institutions, both exclusively controlled by the president and a few of his liegemen, have become the prime target of activists in the southwest, where the population is just as distrustful of their English-speaking elites. [...]

Politics 16/07/2020

Rivals manoeuvre to succeed Biya as RDPC leader

Several allies of the Cameroonian president are vying for the leadership of the ruling party and trying to steal a march on their rivals. But they are wary of being too open about their intentions, as the president has been quick in the past to sideline RDPC colleagues who were seen as too ambitious. [...]

Politics 14/07/2020

Ambassador sent packing from Paris after falling out with long-serving bursar

Replaced by André-Magnus Ekoumou, Cameroon's ambassador to France Alfred Nguini only lasted 17 months in the job before falling foul of in-house politics. [...]

Oil & gas 08/07/2020

Finance Minister Motaze ready to break with Essomba in Sahara Energy fuel price spat?

Because he authorised Sahara Energy to apply fuel prices likely to cost the Cameroonian state tens of millions of dollars in additional subsidy pay-outs, the energy minister has angered the finance minister who is supposed to find the extra funding. [...]

Business 30/06/2020

Victor Fotso's high-speed burial triggers new battle over validity of his wills

The burial of oligarch Victor Fotso in Bandjoun has not ended the battle between his would-be heirs, the existence of which was revealed by Africa Intelligence at the end of March. Following the disputes over the repatriation of his body, the hostilities now concern the validity of the different wills he made. [...]

Politics 26/06/2020

Army frustrated over treatment of Israeli-supervised special forces defending Paul Biya's twilight years Free

Dissatisfaction is growing in the Cameroonian army as it finds itself in the front line of the fight against separatist groups in anglophone regions while the special forces defending the country's seats of power are given preferential treatment. [...]

Business Defence 18/06/2020

Action Air keen to deploy its planes over Libreville-to-Dakar coastline

French aerial mapping firm Action Air Environnement, which is already present in Togo, is in talks with Gabon and Senegal about making its observation planes available. The aim is to combat maritime pollution and strengthen coastal surveillance in a region rich in fisheries and oil resources. [...]

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Diplomacy 11/06/2020

June is Sahel month for French diplomats

What with the presidency of the UN Security Council, the renewal of MINUSMA's mandate and the Coalition for the Sahel in June, and the G5 Sahel summit in early July in Mauritania, the Sahel region is set to keep French diplomats very busy during the next few weeks. [...]

Politics 08/06/2020

Paul Biya's succession on life support

Not only is the Cameroonian president's own health failing but so too that of his constitutionally designated replacements. [...]

Inner circles Business 04/06/2020

Gagan Gupta's French troops

Though now active in Africa via the three Arise mega-funds, Indian-Singaporean agribusiness giant Olam still relies on French advisors to help guide its path. [...]

Mining 03/06/2020

BWA loses Akonolinga rutile to Eramet, charges onwards with new sites

Having failed to win the permit for Cameroon's Akonolinga project, British mining group BWA has begun exploring sites in Nkoteng and Dehane with the assistance of Cameroonian mining specialist Richard Howe. [...]

Politics Diplomacy 03/06/2020

Security Council to probe Sahel army abuses

The United Nations Security Council has set itself a tall task for its 5 June meeting: overview the G5 Sahel States but also look into accusations of abuse against several of the coalition's national armed forces. [...]

Spotlight Oil & gas 20/05/2020

Amid crisis, Sahara delivers oil products at pre-Covid-19 prices

The rates Nigerian trading house Sahara has applied since late February are likely to cost the Cameroonian state tens of millions of dollars in subsidies. [...]

L'un des trois appareils de transport C-130H Hercules de l'Armée de l'air camerounaise.

Business Defence 19/05/2020

Military transport: Air Force picks discreet Aeromec for C-130 maintenance contract

The Portuguese aircraft services firm Aeromec has ramped up its Cameroonian activities with a new contract won in tandem with Marshall Aerospace to provide maintenance to three Hercules transport aircraft. [...]

Politics 11/05/2020

Robert Bapooh Lipot, Biya's operative in Bassa country

Without waiting for the Covid-19 crisis to ease, President Biya is making preparations to recapture central Cameroon voters won over three months ago by the young opponent Cabral Libii. [...]

Mining 08/05/2020

Prometal aspires to mine own iron ore for its steelworks

Prometal, the firm run by the businessman of Lebanese origin Hayssam El Jammal, has requested an iron ore exploration permit for southern Cameroon, having until now concentrated exclusively on treating the mineral at its three plants. [...]

Oil & gas 08/05/2020

Nigeria's Sahara Energy riles Total over petroleum products

The lucky winner of a contract to supply all petroleum products in the country, the Nigerian trading company Sahara Energy is practising prices totally at odds with the current market. [...]

Oil & gas 05/05/2020

Covid-19: Tower Resources' numerous setbacks on Thali block

The drilling of a long-awaited well on the Thali block looked to be set to proceed shortly but the epidemic has caused a fresh postponement of the project. [...]

Politics 05/05/2020

Biya's hardliners go after Maurice Kamto's finances Free

The Cameroonian government's multiple attempts to cut Maurice Kamto off from his financial backers is the latest sign of the growing influence of a diehard government faction led by Samuel Mvondo Ayolo, head of civilian staff at the presidency. [...]