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Central Africa

Burundi
Regideso

Work on building the Jiji dam (31.5 MW) on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.2014

Gabon
Libreville turns on charm with investors

Gabon’s industrial strategy is aimed at seeing mining become as important to the country’s economy by 2025 as the oil [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.03.2014

Burundi
Mining governance under fire

Burundi's Observatoire de la Lutte Contre la Corruption et les [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.03.2014

DRC
Kinshasa

Ahmed Kalej Nkand, administrator of the state-owned copper and cobalt [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.03.2014

Central African Republic
Samba-Panza's cabinet a mixed bag

Catherine Samba-Panza, who recently succeeded Michel Djotodia as Central African Republic's interim leader, has a motley crew as her new team and it is far from sure that they can restore peace.

Subscribers only Politics 26.02.2014

Congo
"Coco" Sassou corners communication

Claudia Sassou Nguesso jealously guards her turf as presidential head of communication and retains tight control on access to her father.

Subscribers only Politics 26.02.2014

Gabon
Total pays for Ping

Tax adjustments running into the hundreds of millions against Total and other foreign companies signal the financial situation in Gabon, but they are also a symptom of Libreville's gunning for Jean Ping.

Subscribers only Politics 26.02.2014

Gabon
Pascaline Bongo clears desk

Furious that palace insiders have blamed her for her former [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.02.2014

Cameroon
Biya takes liberty with constitution

A presidential decree on February 18 that saw businessman and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.02.2014

Gabon
Veolia cheers up in Gabon

Veolia Environnement, which is the concession holder for the SEEG, [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.02.2014

Congo
Financière Saint-Germain close to Sassou Nguesso

Denis Sassou-Nguesso and his wife Antoinette were due to travel [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.02.2014

Cameroon
STEFAN STREICH (Conversa)

Stefan Streich, director of the Berlin-based Conversa, which invests in [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.02.2014

Guinea-Bissau, Namibia
Hazardous acquisition by Impact

With less than a month to go before presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau, explorers are feeling jittery about owning oil blocks.

Free access Energy 25.02.2014

Gabon
At last something solid for Gunvor

The Russian trade Gunvor has won a green light to proceed with its partnership with Gabon on importing gasoline.

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Central African Republic
Olivier Malibangar

The oil and mining industries in Central African Republic are now in the hands of Olivier Malibangar, former adviser to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Gabon
Total at war with tax collector

Total is challenging an additional tax assessment of $805 million [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Cameroon
Gaz du Cameroun doing fine

The Cameroonian subsidiary of Victoria Oil & Gas, Gaz du [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

DRC
Armadale places bet on Mpokoto's gold

Discovered and explored by Gold Fields and Cluff Gold, Mpokoto’s gold now seems likely to actually be mined. Lying in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.02.2014

Congo
African Potash counts on Chinese demand

African Potash, the company that owns the Dinga potash project in Congo-Brazzaville, has cut back on its operations because of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.02.2014

DRC
TFM/SNEL: Kapanga rejects electricity change

The Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) is under pressure ever since Congo-K’s prime minister, Matata Ponyo, ordered it to share-out of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.02.2014

DRC, Finland
Sinikka Antila

The Finnish ambassador to Dar es Salaam with extensive experience of Africa, and in particular Nigeria, Namibia and Zambia, Sinikka [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.02.2014

DRC, United States
Jack Morrison

A lot of questions surround 63-year-old Jack Morrison, chief executive officer and owner of the firm Global ITCM, which is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.02.2014

Spotlight | Cameroon
Business or politics for children of Biya regime

Contrary to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, where there are no prizes for guessing what happens next, it seems unlikely that Cameroonian President Paul Biya, 81, will be succeeded by one of his children, much to the relief of Western diplomats.

Subscribers only Politics 12.02.2014

Gabon
Ping warms up for 2016

Former African Union Commission chairman Jean Ping’s recent attack on Ali Bongo was an early pre-electoral salvo.

Subscribers only Politics 12.02.2014

Congo
ALEXANDRE GANDOU (Gandou Maréchal & Associés)

Alexandre Gandou, the former president of the COSUMAF, the Central [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.02.2014

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