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Brazzaville to host 2025 francophone entrepreneurs gathering

The Rencontre des Entrepreneurs Francophones will take place in June next year.

Subscribers only Business 14.06.2024

Gulf of Guinea naval officers gather in Brest

They have been in France since 12 June for a seminar on bilateral cooperation.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 14.06.2024

Lucien Ebata plans for the survival of Forbes Afrique

In 2022, the oil trader and owner of the Forbes media franchise for French-speaking Africa entrusted the management of the publication to a French company he is not a shareholder of.

Subscribers only Business 06.06.2024

Raoul Ominga still on the hunt for $2bn for SNPC

SNPC CEO Raoul Ominga continues his search to secure funding for the firm's future crude oil shipments and organised several meetings in Paris and Geneva with trading firms Vitol, Trafigura, BGN International and Socar Trading.

Subscribers only Energy 04.06.2024

Sergey Lavrov to meet Nguesso in Brazzaville

The Russian foreign minister is due in town on 3 June.

Subscribers only Diplomacy Running story - Russia-Ukraine war 23.05.2024

SNPC boss sought $2bn on Europe trips

Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo is in full fundraising mode. In April, its CEO made three trips to Europe to meet crude oil traders, in the hope of gathering $2bn.

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2024

French PR specialist Patricia Goldman approaches Denis Sassou-Nguesso

In early April, the Paris-based communications expert Patricia Goldman discreetly offered her firm Patricia Goldman International's services to the Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso.

Subscribers only Business 29.04.2024

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French international broadcaster TV5 Monde on controversial quest for African financing

TV5 Monde boss Yves Bigot has been touring French-speaking Africa in a bid to get seven countries to take a stake in the French-language international broadcaster. The initiative, backed by France's foreign ministry, has sparked concern among staff who fear its editorial independence will suffer.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy 15.04.2024

TV5 Monde CEO Yves Bigot on 1 December 2021.

Behind the scenes of Denis Sassou-Nguesso's visit to Baku

The Congolese president was counting on his trip to Azerbaijan last week to secure major contracts. In the end, the visit merely led to the signing of three agreements related to oil, diplomacy and the environment.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Diplomacy 09.04.2024

Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Azerbaijan on 4 April 2024.

Ministers clash over import control programme

The Minister for Industrial Development and the Minister for Trade have been at loggerheads for months over the implementation of the programme for verifying the conformity of imported goods.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 03.04.2024

First ladies line up in Libreville for Edith Bongo's foundation

Two weeks after an initial ceremony in Congo, the Bongo and Sassou families are preparing to pay tribute to former Gabonese First Lady Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba, this time in Libreville, with many guests from across the continent.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 27.03.2024

Paris job agency seeks to lure expat execs back home

The minister responsible for skills training and employment, Hugues Ngouélondélé, is due in Paris to open a new liaison office created in partnership with Congo's employment agency.

Subscribers only Politics, Business 22.03.2024

Seizure of Sassou's jet validated definitively by top French appeal court

France's top court of appeal, the Court of Cassation, has rejected the Republic of the Congo's objections to the seizure of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's Falcon 7X jet.

Subscribers only Business 20.03.2024

Édith Lucie Bongo Ondimba memorial brings Libreville and Brazzaville closer together

Every year since her death in 2009, Congo's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has organised a ceremony to honour his late daughter, the former First Lady of Gabon. Several heads of state, including Gabon's Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema are expected to attend this year's event.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 13.03.2024

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DRC
The Tshisekedi clan's dangerous ties with cobalt looting "cartels"

Gabon
Gunvor secrets (2/2): the hidden clauses of the Assala Energy buyout

Congo

Brazzaville to host 2025 francophone entrepreneurs gathering

Gulf of Guinea naval officers gather in Brest

Lucien Ebata plans for the survival of Forbes Afrique

Raoul Ominga still on the hunt for $2bn for SNPC

Sergey Lavrov to meet Nguesso in Brazzaville

SNPC boss sought $2bn on Europe trips

French PR specialist Patricia Goldman approaches Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Spotlight
French international broadcaster TV5 Monde on controversial quest for African financing

Behind the scenes of Denis Sassou-Nguesso's visit to Baku

Ministers clash over import control programme

First ladies line up in Libreville for Edith Bongo's foundation

Paris job agency seeks to lure expat execs back home

Seizure of Sassou's jet validated definitively by top French appeal court

Édith Lucie Bongo Ondimba memorial brings Libreville and Brazzaville closer together

Françoise Joly, Sassou's special adviser, under fire

Sassou-Nguesso aims for AU presidency in 2026

Obsolete Congolese body fails to get Commisimpex assets seized

Brazzaville hands out exploration permits for Conkouati's protected subsoil

AI: Tunisian firm in talks with Sassou-Nguesso over startup incubator

Juggling family members at heart of Sassou's reshuffle

Spotlight
Swiss prosecute Trafigura for 'bribing' Angolan officials

Commisimpex buys back Sassou's jet for $7.1m

Sassou sanctions top brass over Ornano stadium tragedy

SNPC pursues onshore exploration ambitions despite pushback from Ministry of Hydrocarbons

Indian bank Blend Finance's big CEMAC promise

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DRC The Tshisekedi clan's dangerous ties with cobalt looting "cartels"

Gabon Gunvor secrets (2/2): the hidden clauses of the Assala Energy buyout

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

The Renaissance Dam – a national symbol but a regional quandary

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

Andry Rajoelina

African Development Bank

Paul Biya

Erik Prince

AFRICOM

Congo

Brazzaville to host 2025 francophone entrepreneurs gathering

Gulf of Guinea naval officers gather in Brest

Lucien Ebata plans for the survival of Forbes Afrique

Raoul Ominga still on the hunt for $2bn for SNPC

Sergey Lavrov to meet Nguesso in Brazzaville

SNPC boss sought $2bn on Europe trips

French PR specialist Patricia Goldman approaches Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Spotlight French international broadcaster TV5 Monde on controversial quest for African financing

Behind the scenes of Denis Sassou-Nguesso's visit to Baku

Ministers clash over import control programme

First ladies line up in Libreville for Edith Bongo's foundation

Paris job agency seeks to lure expat execs back home

Seizure of Sassou's jet validated definitively by top French appeal court

Édith Lucie Bongo Ondimba memorial brings Libreville and Brazzaville closer together

Françoise Joly, Sassou's special adviser, under fire

Sassou-Nguesso aims for AU presidency in 2026

Obsolete Congolese body fails to get Commisimpex assets seized

Brazzaville hands out exploration permits for Conkouati's protected subsoil

AI: Tunisian firm in talks with Sassou-Nguesso over startup incubator

Juggling family members at heart of Sassou's reshuffle

Spotlight Swiss prosecute Trafigura for 'bribing' Angolan officials

Commisimpex buys back Sassou's jet for $7.1m

Sassou sanctions top brass over Ornano stadium tragedy

SNPC pursues onshore exploration ambitions despite pushback from Ministry of Hydrocarbons

Indian bank Blend Finance's big CEMAC promise

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DRC
The Tshisekedi clan's dangerous ties with cobalt looting "cartels"

Gabon
Gunvor secrets (2/2): the hidden clauses of the Assala Energy buyout

Spotlight
French international broadcaster TV5 Monde on controversial quest for African financing

Spotlight
Swiss prosecute Trafigura for 'bribing' Angolan officials