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Gabon
Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo’s job could be up for grabs

In trouble with the French judicial authorities, the president of Gabon’s Constitutional Court risks losing her post.

Subscribers only Politics 19.04.2017

Congo
Sassou gets his media to sing in harmony

Intent on burnishing his image after the messy presidential election last year, Congo-B’s president has encouraged three rival communications outfits to extol his virtues

Subscribers only Politics 19.04.2017

Congo
Eminence Conseil, a lobbyist making its way in Brazzaville

A public relations-cum-events organizer in Congo-B, Eminence Conseil, put on [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.04.2017

Spotlight | Gabon, Nigeria
Addax case rubs off on Communist party

In the wake of Deloitte’s refusal to validate Addax Petroleum’s 2015 accounts at the end of last year due to serious question marks over certain transactions (AEI 788), the Swiss judicial authorities have muscled into the matter and arrested Addax’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Congo
After Total’s blocks, Hemla seeks offshore contract with SNPC

According to our sources, Norwegian company Hemla and its Emirati partner Petromal have been looking to move into Congolese project [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Gabon
Who is GOC doing business with to shake off Remboue?

Arnauld Engandji is doing everything he can to save the state-owned firm, even selling off the family jewels.

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

DRC
KLEC bowls over EPPM: hydrocarbon minister retracts

The Kivu Lake Energy Corp (KLEC) headed by Congolese businessman Dieudonné Mwendanga and South African Clinton Wood has made a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Gabon
David Roux’s mates on Assala Energy’s board of directors

With the exception of former Tullow Oil executive, David Roux, who is to head Assala Energy, the new firm that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Cameroon
Bowleven lurches from crisis to crisis

While Scottish junior Bowleven’s latest general meeting ousted managing director [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique
President Obiang takes Nyusi under his wing

The Equatorial Guinea administration is keen to establish strategic ties [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

DRC
SNEL electrified with rehabilitation of Inga 1 and 2

State-owned power firm Société nationale d’électricité (SNEL) is expecting the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Chad
Carlton refuses arbitration with CNPC

In late March, American junior Carlton Energy turned down Chinese [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Congo
Joe Ariti dives back into iron

Australian Joe Ariti, whose company Genmin Group was granted a prospecting permit in late March for the Mbinda iron ore [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

DRC
Artisans normalize Karajipopo copper

The Association des Exploitants Miniers Artisanaux du Katanga (EMAK) and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

DRC
Martin Kabwelulu waiting on support from entire region regarding illegal diggers

Congo-K’s minister of mines, Martin Kabwelulu, recently criticised the International [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Congo
Pierre Oba dreams of becoming potash heavyweight in Africa

Brazzaville’s minister of mines and geology, Pierre Oba, who awarded [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

DRC
Chinese military join forces with king of Morocco for Pumpi’s copper

Keenly focused on expanding into West African gold (AMI 384) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Gabon
The newcomers filling Accrombessi’s old job

Fresh power circles have formed around Ali Bongo since his powerful chief of staff left office.

Subscribers only Politics 29.03.2017

Congo
Sassou's embassies on life support

The country's new ambassadors are about to take up post in ramshackle embassies.

Subscribers only Politics 29.03.2017

Gabon
Somebody is really out for Guido Santullo

While Gabon’s government has pledged to pay off part of the debt it owes to the businessmen he’s also the subject of legal procedures launched by the authorities.

Subscribers only Politics 29.03.2017

Congo
Total and Socotram face off over fees

The two companies are fighting over the issue and the prime minister is playing referee.

Subscribers only Business 29.03.2017

Chad
Feathers fly between first lady Hinda Deby and daughter in law

A war of sorts is raging in the corridors of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.03.2017

Cameroon
Camairco fixes new flight plan as fog sets in

Transport minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o tabled an umpteenth plan [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.03.2017

Congo
Mouendzi new boss of loading agency

A former administrative and financial boss of the American oil [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.03.2017

Cameroon
Balkany and Lechartier, the future cow-boys of Bowleven

Scottish junior Bowleven’s largest shareholder Crown Ocean Capital, is pushing for the nomination of two new directors to flip the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.03.2017

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