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Unrest in Pool region threatens Brazzaville’s economy

Repression by the head of state in the rebellious department is having a knock-on effect in the capital.

Subscribers only Politics 16.11.2016

A new PR man for Sassou Nguesso in Paris

The Paris branch of Congo-Brazaville’s presidential public relations and communications [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.11.2016

Big and small scramble to pick up Total's relinquished acreage

The name of the winner of the 39% stake currently owned by Total on the Tchibouela, Tchendo and Tchibeli-Litanzi fields [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Sundance seeks a way out of Cominvest imbroglio

Targeted by an Australian probe into links between its Congolese partner and minister Pierre Oba, Sundance has called for an in-house inquiry.

Subscribers only Mining 08.11.2016

Spotlight
Tracking Sundance's mysterious partner, Cominvest

With the Australian police pressing on with their inquiries into Sundance Resources' transfer of 33 million shares to its Congolese partner Cominvest (AMI 377), Africa Mining Intelligence can reveal further details about the mysterious firm in question. Holding a 15% [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

Sassou relies on China to revive mining industry

In late September, Congolese president Denis Sassou-Nguesso signed a dozen [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

Kiki, JDO and the mayor: Rival camps flex their muscles ahead of polls

In the run-up to next year’s legislative elections, competing political clans try to steal a march for dominance within the president’s entourage.

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Odzali draws a blank in Paris

On October 5, a court in Paris rejected the latest [...]

Subscribers only 19.10.2016

Scramble to pick up Total's relinquished acreage in the offshore

In walking away from mature fields, the French major stirred the lust of numerous oil companies already operating in the country and newcomers.

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Brazzaville puts acreage up for grabs again

A full year after officially launching a licensing round in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Cominvest, mystery partner in Sundance’s Congo Iron project

Australia’s Sundance Resources has been under investigation by the Australian federal police since the summer. They want to know who [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.10.2016

Juste-Desire Mondele, Willy's man in the palace

On September 21, Societe Congolaise de Manutention des Bois (Socomab) CEO Juste-Desire Mondele, 45, was named Denis Sassou-Nguesso's special advisor [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2016

Bouya is unwell

Jean-Jacques Bouya has travelled to Paris for medical reasons. Denis [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2016

JDO pays brief visit to Paris

The head of Congo-B’s intelligence services, Jean-Dominique Okemba, stopped off [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2016

Sassou’s slimmer cabinet

Keeping Firmin Ayessa as its director, Denis Sassou-Nguesso on September [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2016

Busted: Kiki Sassou Nguesso’s ghost PR writer unmasked by her own computer!

After a stint in South Africa, Rachelle Yayi-Paraiso, the daughter [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2016

SNPC runs out of gasoline

Burdened by debt, the national oil company can no longer pay the suppliers who sell it oil products, causing a supply crisis in the area.

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

Junior
China’s Wing Wah finally gets the go-ahead

After months of bargaining, Congo-B’s oil minister, Jean-Marc Thystere Tchicaya, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

Euro-Tech hopes to become Total's leading partner

Working for nearly 10 years for Total in France, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

New digital TV channel soon

Verone Mankou, 30, the head of digital communications specialists Voumouka [...]

Subscribers only 21.09.2016

Mohsen Hojeij stands firm

In early September, lawyers acting for businessman Mohsen Hojeij moved [...]

Subscribers only 21.09.2016

Spotlight
Bongo and Sassou place big bets on potash

Hit by the drop in the oil price and finding themselves in awkward positions following the contested results of presidential elections, the Gabonese and Congolese leaders Ali Bongo and Denis Sassou-Nguesso see potash, the raw material for fertilizer, a way [.

Subscribers only Mining 13.09.2016

President puts his best tribesmen on the Mokoko case

Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, a leading light of the opposition and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2016

Total's sub-contractors to hit the jackpot

No less than $17 million is going to be paid out to local firms to help them fulfil contracts with Total

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2016

Will Oil code set the spur to exploration?

The long and torturous process that resulted in Congo-B’s Senate [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2016

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