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DRC
BRGM takes a look at Equateur province

In mid-February, France’s Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres (BRGM) kicked off a geological and geophysical survey of four areas [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

DRC
Power shortages a boon to Tembo

France’s Raphael Khalifa and the Congolese national Eric Monga Mumba have teamed up on a number of private electricity projects for mining companies in Katanga.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 21.02.2017

DRC
Morocco’s king burnishes his piece of Katanga’s copper

Casting a lustful eye on West Africa’s gold, Morocco’s Managem group is equally developing a copper project at Pumpi.

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Gabon
Libreville braces for Kimberley Process inspection

In April or May staff from the Kimberley Process, an [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

DRC
China's Jia Xin bows to need for certification

To make sure it can continue to export its output [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

DRC
Berlin certifies Cominiere's output

Fully engaged in a campaign to certify mines in Congo-K, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

DRC
DWF and Linklaters help Glencore snap up Gertler’s assets

Having merged in January with the French law firm Heenan [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Spotlight | Congo
Sassou Nguesso deals a death blow to his foes

It hasn’t been plain sailing for Denis Sassou-Nguesso since he won a comfortable election victory last March in defiance of a constitutional ban against his running for office again. Having little tolerance for his fiercest adversaries’ criticisms, the Congolese president [.

Subscribers only Politics 15.02.2017

Gabon
Ali Bongo’s secret weapon: splitting the opposition

The head of state is banking on divisions within the ranks of his opponents to govern more freely.

Subscribers only Politics 15.02.2017

Congo
Refinery rows

Two leading government officials are at odds over a major new infrastructure project.

Subscribers only Business 15.02.2017

Cameroon
Ivo Desancio Yenwo, Biya’s real PR man

The ceremony organized on Feb. 8 at the presidential palace in honour of the national football team, the "Indomitable Lions", [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.02.2017

Central African Republic
Visa bonanza probed

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an internal [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.02.2017

Spotlight | Gabon
Minister Houangni defuses labor bomb among oil workers

One month after his appointment as Gabon’s new oil minister, Pascal Houangni finds himself dealing with an explosive social situation in the oil industry. It was triggered by the departure of several oil services companies and by on-going transactions in [.

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2017

Congo
Soco's big headache on Marine XI

The setbacks are piling up for the junior which now owns just a single lifebuoy: the difficult Marine XI block in Congo.

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2017

Gabon
Pertamina’s takeover of Maurel & Prom held up by senior aides

Confirmed in Paris, the takeover of Maurel & Prom by Indonesia’s Pertamina hasn’t yet been endorsed in Gabon because of resistance by a presidential adviser.

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2017

Congo
Etoka served as Morocco's pathfinder in dam construction deal

Congolese oil man Claude Wilfrid Etoka, a k a Willy, who has lived in Morocco for nearly a decade but [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2017

Gabon
How Martin Boguikouma is seeking to gain a stranglehold on oil

A sector once exclusively overseen by Maixent Accrombessi when he was chief of staff to Gabonese president Ali Bongo, oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2017

DRC
Congolese-Turkish firm Ray Group LMZ start work on line

Ray Group LMZ, a dual-nation company made up of Congo-K’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2017

DRC
Albert Yuma Mulimbi under attack by "Patriotes Katangais"

In a letter sent in mid-December to employees of Gecamines, the Patriotes Katangais Aile Radicale political party cast doubt over [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

DRC
Kabwelulu in push to get Sokimo back on track

Thanks to financial backing from the World Bank, Congo-K's mines minister Martin Kabwelulu can finally initiate an operational and organizational [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

DRC
Good news for Glencore on electricity front in late 2017

Although Glencore is entangled in legal difficulties in Zambia, where [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Burundi
Pouroulis’ rare earths firm gets off to blazing start in London IPO

The rare earths explorer Rainbow Rare Earths (RRE) and its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Congo
Overseas missions running on empty

Budgetary constraints are beginning to have a tangible effect on the operations of Congo’s embassies.

Subscribers only Politics 01.02.2017

Central African Republic, Niger
Amadou Boubacar Cisse makes a comeback

Having withdrawn from political life in Niger after the failure of the Coalition pour l’Alternance 2016 to halt the reelection [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.02.2017

Central African Republic
Remi Marechaux makes himself at home in Bangui

Remi Marechaux, the French foreign ministry’s new director for Africa [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 01.02.2017

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