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Gabon
All eyes now on the head of the constitutional court

A close relative of Ali Bongo, Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo takes her orders from the president’s office.

Subscribers only Politics 21.09.2016

Gabon
Bongo keeps his guards close to his chest

With Gabon still in the throes of a fierce dispute about his election victory, the president’s security is very much a family affair.

Subscribers only Politics 21.09.2016

Gabon
Seraphin Moundounga, Ali Bongo's new denigrator

On September 15, Seraphin Moundounga, 52 who had resigned as justice minister 10 days earlier, made an appeal from Brussels, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 21.09.2016

Cameroon
Thibault heads to Yaounde

France’s ambassador to Burkina Faso, Gilles Thibault, left Ouagadougou on [...]

Subscribers only Politics 21.09.2016

Gabon
War of the spin doctors

Under intense pressure since his hotly disputed August 27 election [...]

Subscribers only Politics 21.09.2016

Congo
New digital TV channel soon

Verone Mankou, 30, the head of digital communications specialists Voumouka [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.09.2016

Congo
Mohsen Hojeij stands firm

In early September, lawyers acting for businessman Mohsen Hojeij moved [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.09.2016

Gabon
A switch in Harvest Natural Resources' plans for Dussafu

The Texas-based junior Harvest Natural Resources (HNR) seems to have lifted its foot off the accelerator for the moment on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

Chad
Pro-Beijing firm wins stake in licenses owned by Taiwan’s CPC

CEFC China Energy, a Hong Kong company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, has acquired half of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

Gabon
Nkembe block, last throw of the dice for Pura Vida?

With neither revenue nor partners, the Perth-based junior is pinning all of its hopes on its block in Gabon. With no guarantee of success.

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

DRC
Mukena keeps touting EPPM plant on Lake Kivu

Congo-K’s oil and gas minister Aimé Ngoy Mukena is continuing to lobby in favour of the Tunisian firm EPPM winning [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

Cameroon
Tower sells shares at knockdown rates to raise cash

By selling the equivalent of half of its equity at bargain-basement prices Tower Resources was intent on raising funds to make headway on Thali.

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

Sao Tome and Principe | Explorer
Kosmos makes key appointment to push ahead on EEZ

This summer the American junior Kosmos Energy promoted American geologist [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

DRC
Kinshasa counting on Ivanhoe to soothe tempers in Katanga

The authorities in Kinshasa hope that an announcement in mid-September [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

Spotlight | Congo, Gabon
Bongo and Sassou place big bets on potash

Hit by the drop in the oil price and finding themselves in awkward positions following the contested results of presidential elections, the Gabonese and Congolese leaders Ali Bongo and Denis Sassou-Nguesso see potash, the raw material for fertilizer, a way [.

Subscribers only Mining 13.09.2016

DRC
Resolute takes an option on Kilo Goldmines

The gold producer now active in West Africa and Australia is now about to plant its flag in the gold belt in Congo-K.

Free access Mining 13.09.2016

DRC
None of gold trading agencies in Bukavu are legal

Following a tour of agencies that trade in gold in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.09.2016

DRC
Mukendi Wafwana tells Ivanhoe Mines how to go about it

The firm Emery Mukendi Wafwana & Associes is spending all [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.09.2016

Spotlight | Gabon
How Ali Bongo bungled his election gambit

We’ve seen it all before, only daddy did it better. By obtaining an unfeasibly large number of votes in Haut-Ogooue, Ali Bongo tried to take a page out of his father Omar Bongo’s book. The late Bongo senior had no [.

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2016

Gabon
Gondjout, the man who said ‘no way’ to Bongo win

The deputy head of Gabon’s autonomous election commission (Cénap), Paul-Marie Gondjout, 57, raised eyebrows when he suddenly resigned during the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2016

Congo
President puts his best tribesmen on the Mokoko case

Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, a leading light of the opposition and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2016

DRC, France
Sarkozy meets Katumbi

As well as meeting President Patrice Talon of Benin (WAN [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2016

Gabon
Toulekima talks of his time running GOC

Serge Toulekima wrote to Africa Energy Intelligence in late August to give his version of his dismissal as boss of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2016

Chad | Junior
Getting a break from creditor, United Hydrocarbon can seek partners

In late August the Canadian explorer active in Chad, United [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2016

Cameroon | Services companies
Cosmetics specialist Djomou turns hand to oil

Cameroonian businessman Francis Nana Djomou, head of one of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2016

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