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Gabon

Bongo treads carefully around PDG

The fear that the party could implode with municipal elections coming up did not stop Ali Bongo from making a few changes during the PDG’s 10th congress.

Subscribers only Politics 17.04.2013

Mathias Otounga

Problems are piling up in Gabon’s oil industry (see P. 2) and new people are gradually dealing with them in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Firms gang up on Alex Stewart

In the wake of suit filed by Addax against Alex [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Libreville

Regis Immongault, Gabon’s mines minister, will be working in coming weeks on putting a project to mine manganese at Franceville [...]

Free access Mining 09.04.2013

Ali Bongo's prefab dreams

Faced with growing popular unrest, Gabon's president is hoping that a major public housing construction project will boost his popularity.

Subscribers only Politics 03.04.2013

PACOME YAMADJAKO (Kane et Fils)

Pacome Yamadjako, an associate of Malian businessman Seydou Kane and [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.04.2013

Toulekima seems pretty proud

The Gabon Oil Co. has been boasting about its performance ever since it took over Addax’s Obangue field but oil companies rather doubt its figures.

Subscribers only Energy 02.04.2013

An armistice on Roussette

After fighting over the issue for two years, Setanta and Petroplus reached an agreement to unitise the Roussette field and are about to begin developing it.

Subscribers only Energy 02.04.2013

New taxes applied

A new tax applied by the government has only worsened [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.04.2013

Spotlight
A foot in the palace door

Like all good village leaders, Africa's presidents are all-powerful when it comes to moving a project forward, listening to opposition groups, giving gifts when need be or even altering the outcome of a tender. Increasingly in demand, most now surround [.

Subscribers only Politics 20.03.2013

Hollande keeps Bongo sweet

Ali Bongo's advisors have been pushing him to retaliate against [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.03.2013

VICTORIEN ALOUBA (Seteg)

Victorien Alouba was promoted to chairman of the board of [...]

Subscribers only Business 20.03.2013

Exxon in soft approach

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that executives from Exxon met in Washington in mid-February with Gabon’s oil minister, Etienne Ngoubou, as [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Addax takes Libreville to court

After launching arbitration proceedings against the auditing concern Alex Stewart International, Addax is taking direct action against Gabon to win compensation for the Obangue field.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Olam hit by delays

A project for a huge fertilizer plant supplied with gas at Port Gentil is having trouble getting off the ground. That can be blamed on delays in talks with gas suppliers.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Serge Renamy

According to our sources, the managing director of Gabon Oil Co., Serge Toulekima, has named an official to take charge [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Government caves in to ONEP

According to several oil companies, a strike called by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Libreville
Etienne Ngoubou

Etienne Ngoubou, Gabon's oil minister, will play host to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Lawyer Paulette Oyane-Ondo upsets leadership

Invited to visit the United States for three weeks in March by the State Department, Gabonese lawyer Paulette Oyane-Ondo learned [...]

Subscribers only 06.03.2013

Bongo wields a new broom at the top

Gabon’s president seized the occasion of a brief holiday in Italy to plot a shakeup of his staff and name new officials to key government departments.

Subscribers only Politics 06.03.2013

Bongo set to visit Moscow

After Denis Sassou-Nguesso's trip to Moscow last November (WAN 653), [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.03.2013

New chief for the Meridien in Libreville

Appointed to a post in South Africa, the managing director [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.03.2013

Addax takes on Alex Stewart

Because the Chinese firm has failed to reach a compromise with Gabon concerning Obangue field it is taking out its frustration on Libreville’s favourite oil auditing concern.

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.2013

Iota's high connections in Paris

A financial consulting concern named Iota and headed by the son-in-law of a powerful French rightwing politician is working for oil companies.

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.2013

Arnauld Engandji-Aklandji

The former spokesman for the union Organisation Nationale des Employes du Petrole (ONEP), Arnauld Engandji-Alandji, has crossed the picket lines [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.2013

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