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Central Africa

Chad
The lowdown on legal spat between Deby and Exxon

Behind the record fine Chad is asking Exxon to pay lies an old unresolved case that the president’s allies have latched upon.

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

Spotlight | Congo
Tracking Sundance's mysterious partner, Cominvest

With the Australian police pressing on with their inquiries into Sundance Resources' transfer of 33 million shares to its Congolese partner Cominvest (AMI 377), Africa Mining Intelligence can reveal further details about the mysterious firm in question. Holding a 15% [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

DRC
Has Gecamines a valid case in Tenke Fungurume dispute?

The legitimacy of an arbitration case launched by Gecamines against its partner in the Tenke Fungurume copper mine is being contested.

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

Congo
Sassou relies on China to revive mining industry

In late September, Congolese president Denis Sassou-Nguesso signed a dozen [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

DRC
Wood Mackenzie names Friedland copper emperor of Africa

A report published by the firm Wood Mackenzie in mid-October [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

Gabon
Bongo promotes Accrombessi

Far from being thrown of the president’s inner court, Maixent Accrombessi has been brought even closer to the centre of power.

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Congo
Kiki, JDO and the mayor: Rival camps flex their muscles ahead of polls

In the run-up to next year’s legislative elections, competing political clans try to steal a march for dominance within the president’s entourage.

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Gabon
Necotrans sells assets to raise cash

Major financial problems force the French maritime group to pull out of container port company.

Subscribers only Business 19.10.2016

Cameroon
Chantal Biya, first lady across the board

Chantal Biya is set to be the focus of a "scientific" symposium wordily entitled "Fundamental and political rights of solidarity [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Gabon
Pascaline goes to California

Permanently removed from the president’s cabinet, of which she had [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Gabon
Bongo’s French lawyers line up for looming libel trials

In the coming months, Pierre Pean, a French journalist, faces [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Congo
Odzali draws a blank in Paris

On October 5, a court in Paris rejected the latest [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.10.2016

Congo
Scramble to pick up Total's relinquished acreage in the offshore

In walking away from mature fields, the French major stirred the lust of numerous oil companies already operating in the country and newcomers.

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Cameroon
Goliath Tradex makes its leading customer back down

Cameroon’s trade minister, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, finally put an end in October to a dispute that had pitted the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Chad
United Hydrocarbon in urgent need of a partner

The Canadian advisory and investment firm First Energy Capital, which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Congo
Brazzaville puts acreage up for grabs again

A full year after officially launching a licensing round in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

DRC
Minister steadfast in backing EPPM firm

Nothing appears to undermine the enthusiasm of Congolese oil and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Congo
Cominvest, mystery partner in Sundance’s Congo Iron project

Australia’s Sundance Resources has been under investigation by the Australian federal police since the summer. They want to know who [...]