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DRC
McCarthy Tetrault helps Banro restructure

McCarthy Tetrault, a Canadian law firm well-versed in the African [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2018

Spotlight | France, Gabon
The case that is giving Maixent Accrombessi nightmares

Still influential behind the scenes in Libreville (WAN 768), Ali Bongo's former chief of staff, Maixent Accrombessi, has been fighting a French judicial investigation for over two years, which is threatening his assets, his networks and even his reputation. Since [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.02.2018

Congo, France
The lawyers get their teeth into the Mokoko and Okombi-Sallissa cases

Almost a dozen lawyers, including several from Paris, are now involved in the trial of two 2016 presidential candidates.

Subscribers only Politics 07.02.2018

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
The murky ‘putsch' against Obiang bolsters relations with Biya

The alleged coup attempt against the president of Equatorial Guinea has strained relations with N'Djamena, while strengthening ties with Yaounde.

Subscribers only Politics 07.02.2018

Gabon
Laccruche Alihanga's growing influence at the palace

The 38-year-old Brice Laccruche Alihanga, who is Ali Bongo's chief of staff and head of his political committee within the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.02.2018

Gabon
Ali Bongo reconfigures his sub-regional alliances

The August 2016 presidential election in Gabon prompted the isolation [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.02.2018

Congo
Banque Postale endorsed by the IMF

Congo-B's only public banking institution, the Banque postale headed by [...]

Subscribers only Business 07.02.2018

Gabon
Sogara: Augusta wins decisive combat against Rosneft

The contract for straight-run fuel oil produced by the Gabonese refinery, once shared, is now in the hands of a single trader.

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2018

Gabon
Vaalco's shot at swapping oil sales for Etame extension

The American firm is attempting to win favours with the government by allowing Libreville to directly sell its share of production.

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2018

DRC
Forrest sidesteps Brussels-Kinshasa squabble

As tensions between Brussels and Kinshasa hit a fever pitch, Belgian firm George Forrest International (GFI) quietly completed the rehabilitation [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2018

Congo
Adel al-Jubeir offers Sassou OPEC on a plate

While Saudi minister of foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir's visit to Brazzaville in January was openly reported by the Congolese authorities, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2018

Congo
Tilapia: why Anglo African Oil & Gas picked J. Berwick to lead commando unit

Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG), the main shareholder of Petro Kouilou, owner of the Congolese Tilapia field since 2011, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2018

Gabon
Dussafu: senior meeting between minister Houangni and BW Energy

A large Gabonese delegation led by oil minister Pascal Houangni [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2018

Gabon
Ministry politely receives Kosmos Energy but promises nothing

With its continued healthy appetite for new fields, American junior [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2018

DRC
South Kivu governor courts Chinese investors

With Chinese firms investing in numerous projects in the Congolese side of the Copperbelt over the past months, Claude Nyamugabo, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

Central Africa
Kagame and Magufuli launch railway for 3Ts and nickel

Tanzania will extend its railway line connecting Dar es Salaam and Isaka to reach Kigali, offering an unhoped-for opening for Rwandan and Burundian miners.

Free access Infrastructure, Mining 30.01.2018

DRC
Kinsevere paralysed by battle of the service companies

MCSC and NB Mining, both of whom are subcontractors of MMG, owner of the Katanga copper mine Kinsevere, are in the midst of a heated legal battle.

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

DRC
Klaus Eckhof and Nigel Ferguson's Katangan empire

Founded in late May in Australia to explore gold in eastern Congo-K, junior Okapi Resources has signed off a deal [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

DRC
Prominent Chinese investor Wei Chen invests in Tiger Resources

As Africa Mining Intelligence had anticipated (AMI 407), in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

DRC
Ituri authorities don't want outsiders in their manganese mines

Jules-Cesar Kandadu, provincial deputy of the Irumu circumscription in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

DRC
German cooperation certifies Kampene diggers' gold

In late 2017, German geological institution, BGR, finalised the second [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

Congo
Andre Okombi Salissa follows in the footsteps of Mokoko

The trial of Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko (alias ‘J3M'), the prominent opponent of Denis Sassou-Nguesso, will doubtless draw a lot of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.01.2018

Congo
Raymond Mboulou seeks peace with Pasteur Ntoumi

From 17 to 20 January, the 62-year-old Raymond Zephirin Mboulou, who has been the Congolese interior and decentralisation minister since [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.01.2018

Gabon
Liban Soleman set to become head of the ANPI

The 32-year-old Liban Soleman, who has been the coordinator of [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.01.2018

Gabon
Michel Kiki Mbou is champing at the bit

Appointed at a cabinet meeting on 27 October as the [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.01.2018

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