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Oil & gas 14/07/2020

Oil companies play for time on OPEC quotas as ministry calls on them to reduce output Free

After having failed to respect its OPEC quotas in May and June, Gabon is now trying to increase the pressure on producers to stick to the organisation's rules. [...]

Business Power 10/07/2020

IFC and AfDB to stump up for Kinguélé aval dam

Having teamed up in the Asonha Energie consortium, France's Meridiam and the Fonds Gabonais d'Investissements Stratégiques are putting the finishing touches to the financial package for their 34 MW dam project. [...]

Politics 10/07/2020

Bongo family opts for long European holiday

Already somewhat detached from the day-to-day running of the country, the presidential couple are planning to holiday for several weeks in Europe. [...]

Business 07/07/2020

Will France continue to be Bongo's preferred partner in eavesdropping ?

Long a key component of France's low-key but continuing electronic intelligence cooperation with Gabon, Ali Bongo's eavesdropping service is struggling to adapt to Libreville's new political landscape. [...]

Business Oil & gas 06/07/2020

Bongo aides talk turkey with Trafigura after Augusta ouster

The office of Gabon's president is negotiating with Trafigura to take over the off-take agreement between Augusta and the national refinery company. [...]

Politics 01/07/2020

How Maixent Accrombessi switched allegiance from Ali Bongo to Patrice Talon

Former Ali Bongo chief of staff Maixent Accrombessi. ©DR

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Franco-Moroccan financier Yariv Elbaz at the 2014 New York Forum Africa.

Focus Business 29/06/2020

How Ycap became the Gabonese sovereign fund's favorite asset manager

After having been sanctioned by France's financial markets authority, financier Yariv Elbaz has succeeded in making a comeback in Gabon with his fund Ycap, which has become the main financial partner of the country's sovereign fund. [...]

SOGARA refinery in Port Gentil. The contract to lift the company's atmospheric residues is up for bids.

Oil & gas 26/06/2020

Libreville tries to play off Trafigura against Augusta

Having broken off its contract with Swiss trading group Augusta, which had been lifting part of the production of its refinery operator, Société Gabonaise de Raffinage, Gabon is now trying to find a replacement. [...]

Business 19/06/2020

Henri Proglio, Libreville's ace advisor

The Gabonese government has asked Henri Proglio, the former CEO of EDF and Veolia, to help with a strategy for the national utility SEEG, which was run by Veolia up until last year. [...]

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. [...]

Oil & gas 17/06/2020

The makers of Zenith Energy's new ally in Libreville, Mberi Oil & Gas

Driven by its need to resume production Zenith Energy is firing on all cylinders in Gabon. It has called on the services of a company not well known in the industry but headed by a former Addax Petroleum executive. [...]

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. [...]

Oil & gas 11/06/2020

OPEC latecomers Bongo, Sassou and Lourenço first to flout rules

The Covid-19 crisis has forced members of the Vienna-based organisation to drastically cut their production, but a number of African countries have ostensibly disregarded their obligations. [...]

The Boeing 737 registering as P4-BBJ, frequently used by Sylvia Bongo.

Business 09/06/2020

The Bongo family's sky-high surprise

Gabon's presidential family had until now been blissfully unaware that it does not actually own the two Boeings and Bombardier Global that it uses to jet around. After recently learning otherwise, it is having trouble working out who does control the planes. [...]

Oil & gas 05/06/2020

BW Energy, Perenco and Assala put brakes on Gabonese oil industry renaissance in face of Covid-19

Thanks to a new hydrocarbons code, new contracts gushed forth for Gabon in 2019 but the pandemic is forcing operators to delay their investments, frustrating at a stroke the country's best efforts. [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Liban Soleman, the well-connected consultant newly appointed to the Rwanda Development Board.

Spotlight Politics Politics 26/05/2020

From Bongo to Kagame: Liban Soleman is now tight with Rwanda's first family

The scion of a prominent Somali family that has spread itself across Africa, business consultant Liban Soleman, having served as Ali Bongo's chief of staff for five years, now works closely with the family of Rwanda's president. [...]

Focus Politics Business 18/05/2020

Antoine Hayem, the charterer who keeps the Bongo family flying despite the lockdown

Despite borders being closed as part of the measures taken to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the Gabonese presidency is making greater use than ever of its favourite private aviation service provider, Frenchman Antoine Hayem. Publicity-shy but highly active, he began working for Russian oligarchs and now spends his time meeting the demands of African presidencies and rock groups. [...]

Politics 15/05/2020

Food aid makes for healthy public relations

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, leading political figures and entrepreneurs are finding that food donations are good for their image. [...]

Politics 06/05/2020

President's office quietly dismisses last witness to Bongo's stroke

Jean-Luc Ndong Amvame, the last of Ali Bongo's staff to have been with him at the time of his stroke in 2018, has discreetly stepped down from his duties as head of the president's personal security. [...]

Omar Denis Jr Bongo, son of Omar Bongo Ondimba and his last wife Edith-Lucie Bongo.

Inner circles Politics 30/04/2020

Omar Denis Jr Bongo cuts an increasingly solitary figure

The 26-year-old half-brother of Ali Bongo and grandson of Denis Sassou Nguesso, Omar Denis Jr Bongo, appears to have been increasingly ostracised by the Gabonese president's clan, who suspect him of harbouring presidential ambitions for 2023. [...]

Business Document 28/04/2020

Olam self-medicates marketing strategy to shore up its image

While marching on with its strategy to divest from African infrastructure projects and facing up to a feisty inquiry commission in Mauritania, the Olam group is actively engaging African countries faced with the Covid-19 pandemic to improve its reputation. [...]

Politics 24/04/2020

Lambert-Noël Matha keeps tight rein on state security amid Covid-19 pandemic

While the presidential couple leads the public information campaign on the coronavirus crisis, the all-powerful interior minister Lambert-Noël Matha is keeping a tight grip on the levers of the security apparatus, ready to crack down on any social unrest sparked by the epidemic. [...]

Finance 22/04/2020

Bongo clan takes back control of the country's sovereign fund

After having been headed for 10 years by Serge Mickoto, the husband of President Ali Bongo's step-sister, Gabon's sovereign fund has been taken over by a close associate of Mohamed Ali Saliou, best friend of the president's son and closest adviser, Noureddin Bongo. [...]

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