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Central Africa

Gabon
Exxon, Chevon & Noble are wary

Gabon’s president is working flat out to attract American oil firms to the country’s deep offshore. But with little success so far.

Subscribers only Energy 04.06.2013

DRC
Total mulls strategy on block 3

Despite environmental issues linked to the Virunga national park and security concerns, Total is continuing to press ahead with exploration in eastern Congo-K.

Subscribers only Energy 04.06.2013

Gabon
Ngoubou issues veiled threat

The president of the Union Petroliere Gabonaise, Jacqueline Binoumba, recently [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.06.2013

Document | Chad
Griffiths & CAC state their case

The oil consultant of Canada’s Griffiths Energy, FTI Consulting, has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.06.2013

Spotlight | DRC
Mines minister Kabwelulu in firing line

Mines minister Martin Kabwelulu seems to have walked straight into a storm. The object of a motion of censure by an opposition legislator, Germain Kamdinga, in early May, Kabwelulu will find himself in the crosshairs of many other MPs in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.05.2013

DRC
Ivanplats sticks to target regardless of cost

African Minerals Barbados Limited (AMBL), a joint venture in which Ivanplats, a Toronto-listed firm that holds 95% alongside the Congolese [...]

Free access Mining 28.05.2013

Central African Republic
Djono Ahaba to visit South Africa in early June

Herbert Gontran Djono Ahaba has had a pretty difficult month of May. The Central African Republic’s minister of mines, oil, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.05.2013

DRC
Gold: Chinese told to stop

The Cooperative Miniere de Developpement (COMID), a Chinese firm that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.05.2013

Spotlight | Gabon
Emerging nation, or not

On one hand there is the macro-economic Gabon, whose numbers seem to tell that longed-for African success story: The economy is expected to grow 5.5% in 2013, slower than 7.2% in 2012 but a significant improvement on the annual 2% [.

Subscribers only Politics 22.05.2013

Congo
Sassou focuses on 2016

Capitalising on the good publicity of his role in Operation Serval, Denis Sassou Nguesso now has more leeway to wangle the constitutional change that would enable him to run for office again.

Subscribers only Politics 22.05.2013

Congo
Sassou on edge

Agents of the Republic of Congo’s National Security Council, headed [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.05.2013

Congo
JOSE VEIGA (Asperbras)

Jose Veiga was appointed the managing director of Asperbras Congo [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.05.2013

Central African Republic
Soco & CNPC in running for block A

The turmoil in Central African Republic in recent months hasn’t blunted the enthusiasm of oil companies to explore CAR’s sedimentary basins.