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Gabon
Explosion on Obangue field: Addax muddies the water

A services company that lost a worker and Gabon’s government have put the fatal explosion on Obangue behind them. Here’s why.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2016

Gabon
Nze Bekale has big things in mind for SEM

Founded initially as a small-scale gold exploration and marketing outfit, Societe Equatoriale des Mines (SEM, state-owned) headed by Fabrice Nze [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2016

DRC
China Molybdenum works to reassure the government

Two weeks after laying out $2.65 billion to acquire Freeport-McMoRan’s 56% stake in the Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2016

DRC
Shomary wins tin concessions

Congo Premier Group, a firm headed by former deputy mines [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2016

DRC
Registration of mines in Walikale region

Signed in March by mines minister Martin Kabwelulu, a decree [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2016

DRC
Africo’s acquisition by Camrose casts doubt on Kalukundi’s fate

There’s been a new twist in the saga concerning Africo [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2016

Spotlight | Chad
Post election, Deby clan tightens grip on country

Chad's President Idriss Deby wasted no time after his reelection for a fifth term in April to people Chad's corridors of power once again with relatives and fellow clan members. Even before his inauguration, Deby, who has been in power [.

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2016

Central African Republic
Touadera nostalgic for Bozize era

The new leader of Central African Republic first appointed people close to him to the government and now he has done the same for his staff.

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2016

Gabon
Bongo tries to accommodate disgruntled business community

Gabon's economic difficulties are worsening, as is the mood in the private sector.

Subscribers only Business 25.05.2016

Congo
ENI cultivates friends, keeps rivals at bay

The Italian oil company ENI has managed to keep ahead of rival Total by cultivating the right people in the Republic of Congo.

Subscribers only Business 25.05.2016

Gabon
Jean-Felix Obamba serves private oil interests at presidential palace

Jean-Felix Obamba, 62, the man behind Gabon’s new oil legislation and the chief executive of the Gabon Oil Co (GOC) [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2016

Congo
Francois Ossele, Sassou’s man in Pool

General Francois Ossele, 60, the head of the FAC (Forces Armees Congolaises), has been chosen, instead of chief of defence [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2016

Gabon
Michel Menga M’Essone heads Guy Nzouba Ndama’s campaign

A founding member of Heritage & Modernity (H&M), a breakaway from the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), Michel Menga M’Essone, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2016

Congo
ENI Congo settles up for Roger Roc

The dispute between Maisons Sans Frontieres Congo, headed by businessman [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.05.2016

Spotlight | Gabon
Production : How all the figures just don't add up

The cash-strapped government of Gabonese president Ali Bongo launched an investigation a year ago into how oil companies count the barrels they produce, suspecting that some of the output remains hidden to Gabon's tax collector.