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Central Africa

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

Gabon
Bongo wants to keep the ball front and centre

With opponents still contesting the election victory that returned him to power, Ali Bongo has taken to extending olive branches. It’s a risky strategy.

Subscribers only Politics 01.02.2017

Congo
Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso organises a press junket

The favourite son of Congo-B's president has invited several French journalists for an all-expenses-paid trip to show off his charity works.

Free access Politics 01.02.2017

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Having withdrawn from political life in Niger after the failure of the Coalition pour l’Alternance 2016 to halt the reelection [...]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

Cameroon
Crown Ocean Capital throws down gauntlet to Bowleven

Unhappy over the dividends it receives from Bowleven, its stakeholder Crown Ocean wants to fire the firm’s bosses and revise strategy.

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2017

DRC
George Soros works to push hydropower programs into overdrive

Highly active in Africa, the foundation of the American billionaire is taking a close interest in Congo-K’s hydropower projects.

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2017

Cameroon
Joule Africa sees Kunert as the man to build up its business

The British firm Joule Africa appears to be counting a lot on Paul Kunert, whom it recently hired as its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2017

Chad
British court denies Caracal's broker her fees

Seeking to recover money from the sale of shares in Caracal Energy, the wife of a former Chadian diplomat in the U.S. lost her case.

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2017

Gabon | Junior
Pura Vida gets the drilling company to pay for wells

The Australian junior Pura Vida Energy (its exploration arm is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2017

Congo
Local partner of Hemla and Petromal wins across the board

Congolese businessman Valentin Tchibota Goma , who helped Hemla and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2017

DRC
SNEL’s New Year’s resolutions

Recent work carried out by Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2017

Spotlight | Cameroon
Biya's smoke-and-mirrors mining act

Confronted with the drop in the oil price, like all his counterparts in the Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon's highly-secretive president, Paul Biya, is trying to both court mining operators on one hand and butter up international institutions that regulate the [.

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

DRC
Foreign companies seeking more mining transparency in Ituri

The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA), an initiative [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

DRC
Militias prey on Kasai’s diamonds

For some weeks diamond miners in the Kasai provinces and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Congo, France
Mapingou prepares his lawsuit against Brazzaville

The defamation case brought by opposition politician Marc Mapingou Mitoumbi will be heard on March 15 at the Tribunal de [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Central African Republic
President Touadera, China’s sales rep

The head of state has reached out to China several times since he came to power.

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2017

Gabon
The influence of Herve Patrick Opiangah over the president is growing

An advisor to Ali Bongo, Herve Patrick Opiangah, who was imprisoned in 2007 for "acts of banditry" during the reign [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Cameroon
Marafa Hamidou Yaya sticks to her guns

Jailed in September 2012 for 25 years - a sentence upheld by Cameroon’s Supreme Court last year - former minister [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Chad
A colder shoulder for the first lady

Hinda Deby Itno, who recently obtained French citizenship and has been keeping a low profile over the past few months, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Congo
Journalist held for alleged subversion

The journalist Ghys Fortune Dombe Bemba, the head of the Talassa newspaper, was arrested at 5 am on Jan. 11 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Gabon
Charles Mba opens doors for Casimir Oye Mba in Paris

Charles Mba, a high-ranking Freemason and minister under late former [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 18.01.2017

Congo
Nestor Makosso crosses swords with Arlette Soudan-Nonault

Managing director of Congolaise de Gestion de Loterie (COGELO) since [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2017

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