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Gabon
Bongo’s henchmen lock down PDG party

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo is trying to get the upper-hand over dissenters inside the ruling PDG party.

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2015

Cameroon
Politicians wear too many hats

Cameroon’s politicians are notorious for holding down several jobs and the new government is no exception.

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2015

Congo
Opposition divided in Paris

The Congolese diaspora opposed to Sassou Nguesso were very active during the referendum. But now the dust has settled they are looking for a new impetus.

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2015

Gabon
Robert Bourgi makes palace comeback

After a wilderness period of several months in the wake [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2015

Congo
West African Cement looks for private investor

With its new cement factory in Mindouli, 135km south of [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.12.2015

Spotlight | DRC
New oil bosses hail from Katanga - and favour Luanda

With a year to go before his second and final term in office comes to an end, Congolese president Joseph Kabila has shaken up his team of advisers and the civil servants who count in the oil sector. The common [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.2015

Gabon
Former GOC bosses bite fingernails over audit

The findings of an audit into the management of Gabon Oil Co in recent years will be revealed in coming days and could well reflect badly on certain chiefs.

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.2015

Cameroon
Gazprom offers wide market for Perenco's LNG

Gazprom may have been discreet in debuting in Africa's gas trading market but it has pretty big ambitions when it comes to supplying future gas terminals in West Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.2015

Gabon
Move to put the skids under new boss at Addax Gabon

Taking up his post in September, Thierry Normand, the new managing director of Addax Gabon, set out to follow an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.2015

Chad
Deby courted by China's TBEA energy company

The state-owned Chinese firm Tebian Electricity Apparatus Stock Co (TBEA) sought to make its case for business deals with Chad [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.2015

Cameroon
SNH feels it called Sterling Energy’s bluff on Ntem block

A map of available blocks for the international market that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.2015

DRC
Total Kicks off work on its block 3

A 2D seismic survey by Total on block 3 is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.2015

DRC
Violence flares anew in Mukungwe concession

According to our sources in South Kivu, violent episodes, including killings, have erupted in recent weeks on the big gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.12.2015

DRC
Probe into ex-governor Katumbi's accounts

Commissioners named by president Joseph Kabila at the end of October to administer the four provinces carved out of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.12.2015

DRC
Locals unhappy with Tenke's social fund

Inhabitants living near a mine operated by Tenke Fungurume Mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.12.2015

Congo
Elemental being wooed again

Disappointed in a takeover bid by Hong Kong’s Dingyi Group [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.12.2015

DRC
South Africans put their money on Bisie's tin

South Africa's Industrial Development Corp is to invest $10 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.12.2015

DRC
Much maligned Sicomines produces copper

Set up in 2007 between Gecamines, Sinohydro and China Railway [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.12.2015

Congo
French FN has friends in Brazzaville

French National Front leader Marine Le Pen's recent pronouncements about the Republic of Congo are due to the connections of several FN members with opposition figure Guy Parfait Kolelas.

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2015

Gabon
Seydou Kane under formal investigation in France

Malian businessman Seydou Kane, 52, was placed under formal investigation by the examining magistrate of the Court of Nanterre, in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2015

Gabon
Leon Nzouba, Bongo’s man in PDG

After his appointment as minister for relations with constitutional institutions in September, Leon Nzouba was promoted on November 19th to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2015

Chad
Banyanan Kossingar, a general at customs service

Gendarmerie General Banyanan Kossingar was appointed head of the Chadian customs service on October 26. Kossingar succeeds the controversial figure [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2015

Central African Republic, France
Confessions of a Bokassa

One of Jean-Bedel Bokassa’s daughters is putting the finishing touches [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2015

Gabon
Sovereign Global trains Minusca soldiers

French company Sovereign Global, founded by Peer de Jong and [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.11.2015

Congo
Courville Consultants hired to lobby for Congolese embassy

The Congolese embassy in Washington signed a contract with the [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.11.2015

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