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Central Africa

Gabon
Addax stops pumping oil

An accident on the Obangue field has had a devastating effect on the Chinese major Sinopec.

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.2016

Congo
Work starts on school sponsored by Total

A new site for the Institut Superieur de Technologies d’Afrique [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.2016

DRC
With unrest quelled at Bisie Kamstra wants to extract tin by 2018

Named CEO of Alphamin Resources last month, Boris Kamstra is to launch a definitive feasibility study at the end of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.03.2016

DRC
Muyej in drive to force mining companies to finance new road

Lualaba’s special commissioner wants to build a toll road to Zambia’s border.

Subscribers only Mining 29.03.2016

DRC
Africo depends on the goodwill of ERG at Kalukundi

Africo is trying to persuade its main shareholder, Camrose Resources, to jointly develop their linked Comide and Kalukundi projects.

Subscribers only Mining 29.03.2016

DRC
MIBA stops paying its workers

The new troika running MIBA (Societe Miniere de Bakwanga) and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.03.2016

DRC
Armed groups in east still pestering diggers

A survey carried out by the International Peace Information Service [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.03.2016

DRC
Trouble between Kibali Gold and diggers

The situation is particularly explosive on the concession of Kibali [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.03.2016

Spotlight | Gabon
Bongo sets off on steep, narrow path to reelection

With only six months to go before Gabon’s presidential elections, witch-hunts are the order of the day in Libreville. At the annual conference of the ruling PDG (Parti Democratique Gabonais) in the Gabonese capital on March 12, President Ali Bongo [.

Subscribers only Politics 23.03.2016

Congo
Sassou family join in electoral campaign

President Denis Sassou Nguesso has got an army of sons, daughters, nephews, nieces and grandchildren involved in his campaign to remain in office.

Subscribers only Politics 23.03.2016

Congo
Zephirin Mboulou secures Sassou’s victory

The Republic of Congo’s interior and decentralisation minister since 2007, Raymond Zephirin Mboulou, 60, controlled every aspect of the presidential [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.03.2016

Central African Republic
Samba Panza places team

Some transitional government figures are waiting to get jobs in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.03.2016

Gabon
Attijariwafa in line to take over BICIG

Attijariwafa Bank is poised to acquire BNP Paribas' majority stake [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.03.2016

Congo
Equajet signs deal with Anguios Engambe

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso was not the only person who had [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.03.2016

Congo
Odzali’s lawyers target Air France

In his ongoing bid to recover €75 million from the [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.03.2016

Spotlight | Chad
Deby's government crushed by Glencore debt

Already reeling from the collapse in the oil price, Chad is now dealing with disaster of another sort: the need to repay a debt to Glencore. In 2014, the trading group lent $1.45 billion to Chad to buy out Chevron's [.