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Webcor delivers the regime a hammer blow

Still very much in the economic doldrums (WAN 783), Gabon is also increasingly running into setbacks in the legal action [...]

Subscribers only Business 07.09.2018

Spotlight
Ali Bongo gambles the lot to get back on track

After the parliamentary elections in October, Ali Bongo is expected to announce drastic measures. — After the parliamentary elections in October, Ali Bongo is expected to announce drastic measures.© Reuters

Subscribers only Politics 05.09.2018

Berre, Bongo's new sales rep in Moyen-Ogooue

The minister for promoting investment and public-private partnerships since 2016, 51-year-old Madeleine Berre, is Ali Bongo's new representative in Lambarene, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.09.2018

A financial downturn for SEEG in 2017

The economic crisis that Gabon has been weathering since 2015 [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.09.2018

Former oil minister Etienne Ngoubou to appear before court

The case of corruption against former minister of hydrocarbons Etienne Ngoubou opened on August 30 after 19 months of provisional [...]

Free access Energy 04.09.2018

GOC attempts offshore comeback

A whole 18 months later than planned, the GOC will at last inherit a 10% stake in the Dussafu Marin permit.

Subscribers only Energy 04.09.2018

Vaalco's running saga with Etame Marin

Desperate to secure an extension to its rights on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.09.2018

Bongo seeks a majority in the parliamentary elections

The president is banking on the 6 October ballot to shore up his position. Analysis.

Subscribers only Politics 22.08.2018

Tesla to set up shop in Libreville

The American manufacturer is set to choose Gabon for its first outlet south of the Sahara. An exclusive.

Subscribers only Business 22.08.2018

The state and Veolia to battle it out in the courts

The reconciliation process forming part of the arbitration request lodged [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.08.2018

Spotlight
Perenco in Gabon's offshore black box

With its nearly 25 million barrels of reserve a mystery field that is not on any map of Gabon's offshore blocks, has caught the attention of the family French-British firm Perenco. In turn dubbed Roussette, Espadon, then finally Sardine, this [.

Subscribers only Energy 21.08.2018

Owali: will the former Tullow boys team up with JF Obamba?

After more than a year of hunting for investors, Perenco's former deputy MD in Gabon hopes to have found the right partner, but one that still has to raise funds.

Subscribers only Energy 21.08.2018

How Assala snookered Perenco over Rabi

Assala Energy, the firm controlled by private investment fund Carlyle International Energy Partners (CIEP), elbowed aside its rivals to take [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.08.2018

Vaalco plays trump card on Etame Marin

Caught in a bind (AEI 810), the American oil & gas firm Vaalco has spent the past few months trying [...]

Free access Energy 21.08.2018

High risk conciliation between SEEG (Veolia) and Libreville

Veolia and Gabon held a closed-door meeting in Paris from July 28 to 29 after the French group was stripped of its water and power concession in February.

Subscribers only Energy 21.08.2018

Arnauld Engandji crucified by Total

Arnauld Engandji's switch from his short term as Gabon's minister of labour to a post within the ministry of equal [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.08.2018

Perenco hires Maurel & Prom troupers after Pertamina's arrival

Christophe Blanc, who has steered Maurel & Prom's Gabonese branch [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.08.2018

In Focus
Gagan Gupta, Ali Bongo's favourite Indian tycoon

While French multinationals in Gabon have gone broke like Rougier and Necotrans or battle with the presidency like Veolia and Eramet, Indo-Singaporean group Olam has gone from strength to strength. The man behind its success, its Gabon country director Gagan Gupta, has succeeded in forging close links with the Gabonese presidency.

Subscribers only Finance 09.08.2018

Ali Bongo rains on Laccruche Alihanga's electoral ambitions

The president has put a stop to his chief of staff's attempts to position his allies for the general election.

Subscribers only Politics 18.07.2018

Libreville solicits Arquus

Having reshuffled his military high command in June and appointed [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.07.2018

Etame marin: Vaalco won't admit defeat on extension

American oil firm Vaalco, which has been trying to shed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.07.2018

Christian Magnagna wants bigger, brighter gold sector

To revive Gabon's shrinking gold production, which fell to 500 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.07.2018

Ali Bongo pre-empts the IMF with a drastic austerity drive

Presiding over a country hamstrung by a colossal domestic debt, Ali Bongo has introduced draconian measures to reduce state expenditure.

Subscribers only Politics 04.07.2018

Serge Thierry Mickoto plots the BICIG succession

The 45-year-old Serge Thierry Mickoto, a board member and since 2012 the managing director of the Fonds gabonais d'investissements strategiques [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.07.2018

Arnauld Engandji steps in to steer ONEP/Total talks

After taking up the helm of the ministry of labour in April, Arnauld Engandji, the former powerful advisor to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.07.2018

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