Spotlight | Horn of Africa
British business's new frontier

The New Guard
Gabon, Cameroon, Senegal, Ethiopia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Gabon Sarah Doukouré, leading Vivo Energy's expansion in Gabon

Cameroon Gaelle Tarci le Tang, scion of one of Cameroon's most illustrious lawyer dynasties

Senegal In Dakar, Mamoudou Bocoum plans the future of country's ports

Ethiopia Hilina Zenebe Risom, start-up hunter

Somalia
Soma Oil’s Russian sponsors

Soma Oil & Gas, which is headed by Michael Howard, the former chairman of the UK Conservative Party, has found some Russian financial backers.

Somalia
Shell clings firmly to its concession

Shell’s permit in Somalia has lain idle for decades because of "force majeure" but the company clearly prizes the acreage.

Somalia
On the hunt for oil companies

The advisors to the outgoing oil minister, Abdulkadir Mohamed Diesow, are bustling about while they wait to find out who will be their new boss.

Spotlight | Somalia
From civil war to squabbling over oil

The prospect that conditions conducive to searching for oil in Somalia are returning has resulted in a variety of initiatives. And this despite the fact that the civil war against the Al Shabaab Islamists has not yet been won, even [.