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Gabon
DGH

The American firm Alex Stewart International, which conducted an audit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Spotlight | DRC
Mining code reforms: state wants bigger share

Kinshasa is revising its 2002 mining code in the hope of getting a fatter share of profits from the sector. This forms part of a wider trend in Africa that worries mining operators.According to information gleaned on the sidelines of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

DRC
Chemaf’s plans disrupted by diggers

The coming months could be difficult for the private security firm Bras Security which informed the authorities in Katanga in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

DRC, Israel
Dan Gertler

The Israeli businessman Dan Gertler, who is highly engaged in mining in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has set out [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

DRC
Congolese minerals: Catholic Church takes up the crusade

The Catholic Church is launching an offensive to cut off [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

Central African Republic
Bozize closes ranks

The recent sacking of two of the Central African Republic leader Francois Bozize’s former right-hand men has unsettled nerves at the presidential Palais de la Renaissance.

Subscribers only Politics 24.10.2012

DRC
Kabila's Francophonie manoeuvres

Joseph Kabila did everything possible to gain political mileage out of hosting the 14th Francophonie summit earlier this month.

Subscribers only Politics 24.10.2012

Congo
Sassou looks to Moscow

Denis Sassou Nguesso no longer enjoys the popularity he once had in France but he has been making friends in Russia, which he will visit in three weeks' time.

Subscribers only Politics 24.10.2012

Gabon
Bongo family gather in Paris

She’s no longer a presidential insider but the late Omar Bongo’s eldest daughter Pascaline Bongo can still rally certain members of the Bongo clan.

Subscribers only Politics 24.10.2012

Congo
JOSE VEIGA (Asperbras)

Portuguese businessman Jose Veiga has become the main African envoy [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.10.2012

DRC
Dig Oil the president’s pet

The firm headed by Andrea Brown has succeeded in starting the first-ever exploration campaign in the huge central basin without officially winning a permit.

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

Burundi
Angelique on Kabu 16 at last

A go-ahead from lenders and backing from India have combined to clear the way for a dam project on the Kaburantwa river.

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

DRC
SNEL

The Congo-K government’s economic woes have got the better of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

DRC
Two speed electricity

The residents of Kinshasa don’t have fond memories of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

DRC
Munganza’s price list for talks

Barely had he been confirmed in his post (AEI 684) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

DRC, South Korea
Atama Crispin

Atama Crispin, Congo-K’s hydrocarbons minister, has been constantly on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

DRC
Lifebuoy needed for old state-owned groups

Congo-K's senate has been focussing its attention since Oct. 8 on a draft bill presented by portfolio minister Louise Munga [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

DRC
Alphone Ngoy Kasanji

Along with his counterpart in Katanga, Moise Katumbi Chapwe, the governor of East Kansai and former president of the Federation [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Gabon
Maixent Accrombessi omnipresent

Oil, finance, intelligence, mysticism: Ali Bongo’s powerful director of cabinet seems to have a finger in every pie.

Subscribers only Politics 10.10.2012

Congo
France Telecom makes ANAC pay

The French telecommunications company has deprived the Republic of Congo's civil aviation authority, the ANAC, of revenues totalling €700,000 in payment of a Congolese debt.

Subscribers only Politics 10.10.2012

Gabon
Rougier struggles in Gabon

The Rougier subsidiary Rougier Afrique International (RAI) posted a modest [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.10.2012

Cameroon
Gicam and E-cam compete in Douala

Cameroon’s two employers’ organisations are constantly trying to outdo one [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.10.2012

Central African Republic
Areva’s Bakouma closure faces legal challenge

The government of Central African Republic has contacted Paris lawyer [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.10.2012

Congo
Unicon Development builds business in Brazzaville

Unicon Development, headed by American-Congolese businessman Serge Pereira, is to [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.10.2012

Congo
ARMEL FRIDELIN MBOULOUKOUE (SGC)

Societe Generale Congo (SGC), a subsidiary of the French bank [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.10.2012

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