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The Mbochis remain at the helm of the SNPC

Despite extensive restructuring in recent months, the oil company remains firmly in the hands of the president's ethnic group. Analysis.

Subscribers only Politics 04.07.2018

How OPEC became an African club

The Vienna-based organisation, traditionally only open to the world's largest oil producers, has become a diplomatic tool for secondary producers and firms in Africa to develop their networks.

Subscribers only Energy 03.07.2018

How Lucien Ebata persuaded Petroci to drop MKB

After countless threats it would go to court, the Congolese president's favourite trader has kissed and made up to the Ivorian state. Here's why.

Subscribers only Energy 03.07.2018

Soco leaves partners little choice but to wave goodbye

The Monegasque firm, which has been slowly moving out of the continent, surprised Brazzaville and Luanda with the sale of its entire local portfolio.

Subscribers only Energy 03.07.2018

Minister Jean-Marc Thystere Tchicaya picks close ally to capitalise on gas

The Congo-B has decided to fill in the gaps of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.07.2018

New Age and Vitol scuffle over Marine XII

Vitol won a first round at a Commercial Court of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.07.2018

Why Iran complicates matters for Brazzaville's bid to join OPEC

Congolese minister of foreign affairs, Jean-Claude Gakosso, has been touring first Iraq and then Iran this June to soften the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.06.2018

Beijing's envoy to negotiate Sassou's debt repayments

Under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.06.2018

Air France cuts flights to Pointe-Noire

Due to the economic and financial crisis in Congo-B, which [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.06.2018

Orion Oil irons things out with Petroci

Denis Sassou-Nguesso's special advisor Lucien Ebata made a whistle-stop visit [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.06.2018

Ill-Gotten Gains Affair: Sassou Nguesso's relatives keep French judges at bay

Four relatives of Congolese head of state Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who were formally put under investigation in July 2017 in the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.05.2018

Why Sassou Nguesso is eliminating all his opponents

Following the guilty verdict against General Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko (aka J3M, WAN 773), his challenger in the March 2016 presidential [...]

Free access Politics 23.05.2018

Daniel Mbere gets mired in the Congolese courts

Having won his case at the Brazzaville Court of Appeal [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.05.2018

Mokoko's lawyer Yvon-Eric Ibouanga squares up to Sassou Nguesso

A member of the Brazzaville bar since 2006, Yvon-Eric Ibouanga is acting as the principal lawyer for General Jean-Marie Michel [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.05.2018

SNPC reorganisation breaks up Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso's "clan"

The appointments made on April 27 to the top management team at Societe Nationale des Petroles au Congo (SNPC) by [...]

Subscribers only 03.05.2018

Sassou Nguesso's risky gamble on potash

The president has actively engaged in this sector in the hope of offsetting the impact of the IMF recommendations, but the projects are suffering from a lack of infrastructure.

Subscribers only Business 25.04.2018

Thierry Lezin Moungalla busy lobbying in Paris

The Congolese minister for communications and media (and government spokesman), the 53-year-old Thierry Lezin Moungalla, recently visited Paris to discuss [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.04.2018

Sassou fits in with Mohammed IV's climate plans

Originally planned for 24 April in Brazzaville, the first summit [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.04.2018

Yoann Gandzion expands the activities of his Afrique Pesage subsidiary

In March, the 34-year-old Yoann Gandzion, who since 2017 has [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.04.2018

Wilfrid Etoka's peace-promoting palm oil

The businessman Claude Wilfrid Etoka, known as ‘Willy', is continuing [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.04.2018

SNPC lends to itself through Sino-Congolese bank

This new Sino-Congolese establishment has lent FCAF 10 billion to SNPC, itself a shareholder of the bank.

Subscribers only Energy 24.04.2018

Bharti Airtel appoints its chief exec

The Congolese subsidiary of Bharti Airtel has a new chief [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.04.2018

Luca Della Rocca does good business for Italy

Luca Della Rocca, the boss of Renco, an Italian company [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.04.2018

Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko strengthens his defence team

Ahead of his trial which is due to start shortly after March 29, when the Congo-B Criminal Court goes into [...]

Subscribers only 23.03.2018

Sassou's legal advisers gather in Brazzaville

French lawyer Eric Dupond-Moretti is due in Brazzaville on March 23, a few days before the start of the next [...]

Subscribers only 21.03.2018

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