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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

Gabon
Ali Bongo's efforts to isolate Jean Ping

The foreign travel ban on the former AU head is part of a strategy to progressively sideline him in the run-up to the legislative elections.

Subscribers only Politics 24.01.2018

France, Gabon
The Pozzo Di Borgo residence is targeted by opposition leaders… and private creditors!

Kontinental has seized assets of the property firm that manages this Parisian townhouse owned by Gabon. Unfortunately, the firm is already being pursued by another creditor… An investigation.

Subscribers only Business 24.01.2018

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

Spotlight | Gabon
Another DGH boss falls victim to Perenco-Total deal

When Perenco bought several of Total's offshore assets in Gabon in May 2017, the transaction came with a cut to the Gabonese State' share of production. Africa Energy Intelligence examines an affair that has cost the head of hydrocarbons his [.

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

Cameroon
Biya's risky bet to douse Anglophone fire with petrol

To stifle a pro-independence movement in the south, Paul Biya's administration is playing both good cop and bad cop to local businessmen active in oil.

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

Sao Tome and Principe
Block 4: ERHC braces itself against Kosmos

ERHC has picked out its defence squad to put its best foot forward during the arbitral process launched by former partner Kosmos Energy.

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

Gabon
Pura Vida in deep introspection to dodge crisis

To start 2018 out on the right foot after a lengthy difficult spell (AEI 777), Australian junior Pura Vida Energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

Cameroon
Power projects stagnate as Eneo battles with Yaounde

Faced with the State's incapacity to reimburse its debt, the power production and distribution utility has ramped up its line of attack.

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

DRC
SNEL feels World Bank's wrath

In an internal document Africa Energy Intelligence was able to consult, the World Bank painted a calamitous picture of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

Gabon
Bernardin Assoumou takes over from Massassa in DGH

By firing Paul Massassa from his post as managing director of Direction generale des hydrocarbures (DGH), the council of ministers [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

Cameroon
As its oil output freefalls, how did snh generate stable revenue in 2017?

The Societe nationale des hydrocarbures (SNH), still headed by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

DRC
Violent outbreaks hold up Ruzizi projects

The Ruzizi River hydropower projects are currently on stand-by due [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2018

DRC
Is China's Sinomine gearing to buy Kipoi copper?

As its struggles to balance its books and deal with operational hitches, Australian concern Tiger Resources may be looking at selling its Katangan copper mine Kipoi.

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

DRC
Aggelos fund pairs up with Vector Resources

South African financier Kurt van Duyn will help Vector reboot its Adidi-Kanga gold project.

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

Cameroon
Gisele Ndanga Ndinga, minister's spouse and business woman

Cameroonian entrepreneur Gisele Ndanga Ndinga, wife of Badel Ndanga Ndinga, senator in Yaounde and previous mines minister from 2007 and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

DRC
Sula annexes Jean-Pierre Ndobo Mwamby's cobalt

With its recent acquisition of 70% of a cobalt exploration [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

DRC
The raging mining code debate

The mining code draft adopted in late December by the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

DRC
Extra caution taken to free illegal diggers caught with hand in MIBA's bag

Congolese state-owned firm Societe miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA), which mines [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

DRC
Government creates confusion in Lumbishi

The small-scale coltan mine located in Lumbishi, in South Kivu, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

DRC
Who is helping Banro restructure in Canada?

In late December, the Ontario federal court tasked corporate intelligence [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

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