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DRC Infrastructure Finance 29/03/2023

Kinshasa negotiates $200m loan for Mbuji-Mayi-Kananga road

President Félix Tshisekedi has been involved in the discussions with Afreximbank for the financing of a project to build two roads, including a section of 188 km, in central DR Congo.

FRANCE GABON SENEGAL ZAMBIA Finance Diplomacy 29/03/2023

Macron seeking to include African leaders at global financial pact summit

French President Emmanuel Macron is looking to involve a slate of African leaders at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact that he is hosting in June.

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DRC RWANDA Diplomacy 28/03/2023

Great Lakes leaders unconvinced by Qatar involvement in M23 crisis discussions Free

Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (L) and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi (R) on the sidelines of the COP26 World Leaders Summit, in Glasgow the 1st of November 2021. © Qatar Emirate Council/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via AFP

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Mining Business 28/03/2023

A discreet Chinese firm investigates the killing of nine miners working for Royal Cost Gold

Last week's unclaimed deadly attack on a mining site run by Chinese citizens in Chimbolo has sent shockwaves through the Chinese community, which is very active in this sector. An economic intelligence firm is looking into the activities of armed groups in the area.

DRC Infrastructure Mining 27/03/2023

Kinshasa hones Sicomines strategy ahead of talks with Chinese partner

President Felix Tshisekedi has asked his ministers and advisers to set out the key requests the government will take to the Chinese part of Sicomines. The two sides need to meet to negotiate a 'review' of its mining convention.

CENTRAL AFRICA Finance Diplomacy 27/03/2023

FATF-affiliated action group holds out hope for more World Bank aid

The World Bank's $4m aid package used to run GABAC, an anti-money laundering action group in Central Africa, will expire this year.

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Mining Business 27/03/2023

Nicolae Buzaianu goes for gold in Bangui

Swiss-Romanian businessman Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu wants to invest in gold in CAR. He met with President Faustin-Archange Touadera to discuss buying or building a foundry there.

DRC Politics 24/03/2023

Kamerhe's bid to see Boji exit DRC government falls short in reshuffle

DRC: The reshuffle of Sama Lukonde Kyenge's government was announced overnight on 24 March.

CENTRAL AFRICA FRANCE Politics Diplomacy 24/03/2023

Macron's ruling majority falls out over top Francophonie job

The unprecedented holding of a vote to select the secretary-general of the Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie reflects strong tensions between Aurore Bergé and her partners in France's ruling coalition.

CAMEROON Diplomacy 23/03/2023

Ottawa seeks to break deadlock in Anglophone mediation

Canada's deputy foreign minister Peter MacDougall is to visit Cameroon next week where he will have the difficult task of reviving Canada's flagging mediation in the country's Anglophone crisis.

CAMEROON EQUATORIAL GUINEA Energy 22/03/2023

Chevron in the clear to develop Yoyo and Yolanda fields

The US major Chevron will finally be able to work on exploiting the gas fields discovered by Noble Energy near the borders of Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.

DRC Diplomacy 22/03/2023

Sarkozy due in Kinshasa to kick-start dialogue with Kagame

The Congolese leader Félix Tshisekedi has invited France's ex-president to Kinshasa in the hope that Sarkozy's good relations with Paul Kagame can be exploited to initiate a mediation over the M23 crisis in eastern DRC.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

AFRICA Diplomacy 22/03/2023

IMF ready to pay out first $20bn in SDRs to AfDB

The African Development bank should receive $20bn in IMF SDRs in the coming months, as part of a pledge made in 2021 during the Covid-19 crisis by rich nations to reallocate the equivalent of $100bn in SDRs to African countries.

CHAD Energy 21/03/2023

Savannah Energy unaffected by row with junta over ExxonMobil asset transfer

Its weeks-long legal battle with Chad's government has not impacted the British junior's bottom line. Even without its own employees on site, it continues its activities as if the transfer from ExxonMobil were not in dispute.

DRC Business 21/03/2023

Forestry permit audit in DR Congo poses threat to several industry tycoons Free

DRC Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba is aiming to take back illegal forestry licences in order to ban logging and to be able to sell carbon credits. Several operators who entered the sector under President Kabila risk losing their titles and, locally, her initiative is being opposed.

Eve Bazaiba, DRC Environment Minister, 3 October 2022.

GABON Energy 20/03/2023

Perenco hurries to sell Atora before Carlyle seals sale of its share

Franco-British oil junior Perenco wants to quickly sell its share in Atora field in Gabon for $50m, indicating it does not wish to work with the future owner of Assala Energy's majority share, which Carlyle is in the process of selling.

CHAD Defence 20/03/2023

French defence minister Lecornu plans trip to N'Djamena

French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is preparing to make an official visit to Chad as part of plans announced by President Emmanuel Macron to completely reorganise France's military presence in Africa.

SpotlightCENTRAL AFRICA Energy Mining Commodity traders 17/03/2023

Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

The main foreign investors in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa are alarmed by the regional body's foreign exchange regulations, considering them to be too tough. But despite intense lobbying, a relaxation of the rules looks unlikely, the central bank having set itself ambitious objectives for foreign currency reserves.

Abbas Mahamat Tolli, governor of the Bank of Central African States, in Paris in 2018.

GABON Energy 17/03/2023

Ex-Addax temp workers pursue fight over pay

Several Addax Petroleum and Sino Gabon former temporary workers have doubled down on their fight against Sinopec's two subsidiaries.

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHAD Diplomacy 17/03/2023

Mahamat Idriss Déby expected in Bangui to signal grand reconciliation

The Chadian president Mahamat Idriss Déby, aka Kaka, will pay an official visit to his Central African counterpart Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Bangui this spring to signal the reconciliation between the two countries.

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