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Business Infrastructures 19/01/2021

AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy Free

The African Development Bank has published a brutal assessment of way the Economic Community of Central African States, its partner on numerous infrastructure projects, is being run. [...]

Politics 15/01/2021

Saga of first lady Constancia, son Teodorin and brother Candido continues

The subject of a Spanish arrest warrant, the ex-minister Candido Nsue Okomo has been rescued by his sister, who is also the wife of the Equatorial Guinean president. [...]

Business Infrastructures 08/01/2021

Lawyers and consultants flock to Brazzaville in search of infrastructure projects

Initially scheduled to take place in Brussels and then Paris, the CEMAC round table on public-private partnerships has finally taken place in Brazzaville, attracting a veritable horde of lawyers specialising in this domain. [...]

SpotlightPolitics 05/01/2021

Obiang family wages internecine legal battles from Dubai to Madrid to Malabo

Business Mining 23/12/2020

Jeantet opens new 'green' OHADA desk

Green energy will be the theme of the first two seminars organised by Jeantet's brand new OHADA desk. [...]

Oil & gas 21/12/2020

P Block: Energy minister Gabriel Obiang may soon tire of Levene and Vaalco's stalemate

Offshore exploration in Equatorial Guinea should pick back up in 2021. If Levene Energy and Vaalco, winners of the last bidding round, can reach an agreement, that is. [...]

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Spotlight Oil & gas 16/12/2020

Teodorin's latest ploy to acquire Zafiro from ExxonMobil

Malabo is being very creative in its efforts to get hold of the country's largest oil field, which the American major ExxonMobil is very keen to ditch. [...]

An ExxonMobil FPSO off the coast Nigeria.

Running story Oil & gas

The oil companies' quiet retreat from the Gulf of Guinea

Long considered an oil Eldorado thanks to the presence within the region of Africa's two leading oil producers, Nigeria and Angola, the Gulf of Guinea is declining. The inexorable rundown in its output -few if any new discoveries have been made recently in Gabon, Cameroon or Equatorial Guinea - and the fall in oil prices brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic have speeded up the retreat from the region in which the oil majors have been engaged for some years already. [...]

The Equatorial Guinean vice-president Teodorin Obiang Nguema, presumptive successor of his father as head of state.

Focus Politics 16/11/2020

The late financier Jeffrey Epstein's secret friendship with Teodorin Obiang

A friend of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, the late American wealth manager, who was under investigation for sexual trafficking when he died in August 2019, also had regular dealings with Equatorial Guinean vice president Teodorin Obiang Nguema. [...]

Abbas Mahamat Tolli, Governor of Central Africa Banks.

Oil & gas 16/11/2020

Bongo and Obiang get BEAC to give in to oil firms

The regional bank has yet to impose the CFA franc on mining and oil firms, thanks to a fuss kicked up by a private sector backed by certain regional leaders. [...]

Business Ports and airports 13/11/2020

Turkey's Damnus follows compatriot Summa into privatised airports sector

The Turkish conglomerate Damnus headed by Nusret Comert is set to run Bangui international airport, where it will also be in charge of refurbishing works estimated to cost €30m. [...]

The gas installations at Punta Europa, on the island of Bioko, in Equatorial Guinea.

Spotlight Oil & gas 11/11/2020

Maritime security: Marathon tries to resist Teodorin's plans to militarise Punta Europa LNG installations

A recent attempt by Nigerians from Niger Delta to take Marathon employees hostage in Equatorial Guinea has caused president-in-waiting Teodorin Obiang Nguema to react. He wants to impose security measures but the oil companies strongly disagree. [...]

Business Defence 04/11/2020

Gabon's blue helmets stymied by faulty Chinese APCs Free

Gabon is about to rotate troops within the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, but its soldiers there are still grappling with equipment problems. [...]

Former President of the Republic of Gambia Yahya Jammeh.

Politics 30/10/2020

Yahya Jammeh makes a pretty penny in Maryland

Since former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh was accused by the state of embezzling and laundering close to $343 million, he has been working hard to grow what remains of his capital. [...]

Spotlight Oil & gas 28/10/2020

Total fears for its petroleum products business after Teodorin Obiang greenlights new refinery

A plan to build a new modular refinery, which is due to come into operation in 2022-2023, threatens to put an end to Total's virtual monopoly on Equatorial Guinea's petroleum products business. [...]

Oil & gas 16/10/2020

Chevron tasks exec to assess Noble Energy's gas assets

The American oil major is currently examining the option of holding on to Noble Energy's Equatorial Guinean and Cameroonian assets. [...]

Spotlight Business 08/10/2020

Malabo airport: Obiang seeks to avoid arbitration between Menzies and Ceiba International

The legal unit at the president's office is deploying the big guns to settle out of court the Aeropuerto de Guinea Equatorial dispute, which could cost Malabo tens of millions of dollars. [...]

Politics Infrastructures 07/10/2020

CEMAC seeks $3.3bn to finance infrastructure projects

The six members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) are planning a round table in November to raise funds for the construction of roads and electricity plants. [...]

Politics 05/10/2020

Vice President Teodorin Obiang brings logging sector under his control

Equatorial Guinean agriculture and forests minister Nicolas Houtondji Akapo was suddenly replaced on 18 September. [...]

Oil & gas 09/09/2020

VP Teodorin Obiang's oil ministry reshuffle gambit backfires

Having largely provoked the latest changes to the cabinet line-up, President Tedodoro Obiang Nguema's favourite child and presumed successor failed to persuade his father to go with his choices. [...]

Teodorin Obiang Nguema has already been designated by the Obiang family to succeed his father as the country's president.

Spotlight Politics 08/09/2020

Obiang family member Candido Nsue Okomo driven into exile for opposing Teodorin's power grab

If they oppose the vice president's bid for his father's "throne", even Obiang family members are pressured into finding other ways of occupying themselves...far from Equatorial Guinea. [...]

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

Diplomacy Mining 04/09/2020

How rare earths and evangelicals brought Trump closer to Bujumbura

The pending confirmation of Melanie Higgins as the new US ambassador to Burundi, a post left vacant for the past 18 months, spells the final phase of a discreet but important bridging of ties between the United States and Burundi. [...]

Oil & gas 31/08/2020

Kosmos finds itself at heart of joint development zone project

Future drilling projects have placed the US oil company Kosmos Energy in the position of go-between in negotiations between the governments of São Tomé and Equatorial Guinea. [...]

Meeting between the President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Selim Bora, president of the Turkish conglomerate Summa, in April 2019.

Diplomacy 24/08/2020

Summa, Erdogan's best ambassador in Malabo

The opening of a new Turkish embassy in Equatorial Guinea has crowned an already vigorous partnership between Ankara and the Obiang family, cemented by numerous contracts for Turkish companies, including the Summa conglomerate. [...]

Equatorial Guinean prime minister Francisco Pascual Obama Asue.

Oil & gas 21/08/2020

Why oil minister Gabriel Obiang is furious about PM Obama Asue's reappointment

The reappointment of Obama Asue as prime minister following the resignation of the government is a new demonstration of the growing power of vice president and president in waiting Obiang Nguema. [...]

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AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy Free

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Obiang family wages internecine legal battles from Dubai to Madrid to Malabo

Jeantet opens new 'green' OHADA desk

P Block: Energy minister Gabriel Obiang may soon tire of Levene and Vaalco's stalemate

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The oil companies' quiet retreat from the Gulf of Guinea

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Turkey's Damnus follows compatriot Summa into privatised airports sector

Maritime security: Marathon tries to resist Teodorin's plans to militarise Punta Europa LNG installations

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Total fears for its petroleum products business after Teodorin Obiang greenlights new refinery

Chevron tasks exec to assess Noble Energy's gas assets

Malabo airport: Obiang seeks to avoid arbitration between Menzies and Ceiba International

CEMAC seeks $3.3bn to finance infrastructure projects

Vice President Teodorin Obiang brings logging sector under his control

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AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy Free

Saga of first lady Constancia, son Teodorin and brother Candido continues

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Obiang family wages internecine legal battles from Dubai to Madrid to Malabo

Jeantet opens new 'green' OHADA desk

P Block: Energy minister Gabriel Obiang may soon tire of Levene and Vaalco's stalemate

Teodorin's latest ploy to acquire Zafiro from ExxonMobil

The oil companies' quiet retreat from the Gulf of Guinea

The late financier Jeffrey Epstein's secret friendship with Teodorin Obiang

Bongo and Obiang get BEAC to give in to oil firms

Turkey's Damnus follows compatriot Summa into privatised airports sector

Maritime security: Marathon tries to resist Teodorin's plans to militarise Punta Europa LNG installations

Gabon's blue helmets stymied by faulty Chinese APCs Free

Yahya Jammeh makes a pretty penny in Maryland

Total fears for its petroleum products business after Teodorin Obiang greenlights new refinery

Chevron tasks exec to assess Noble Energy's gas assets

Malabo airport: Obiang seeks to avoid arbitration between Menzies and Ceiba International

CEMAC seeks $3.3bn to finance infrastructure projects

Vice President Teodorin Obiang brings logging sector under his control

VP Teodorin Obiang's oil ministry reshuffle gambit backfires

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