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Congo
Phosphates: Cominco increases resource

Recent sampling by Cominco on the Hinda phosphates project has enabled the company to upwardly revise its evaluation of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.12.2012

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
Fotso has Obiang’s Falcon seized

Cameroonian group Fotso has had several Equatorial Guinean assets seized, including a presidential Falcon, West Africa Ne wsletter can exclusively reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 05.12.2012

Congo
Sassou strokes UPADS

President Denis Sasssou Nguesso is doing his best to tame Pascal Lissouba's UPADS party into submission.

Subscribers only Politics 05.12.2012

Gabon
The rise and rise of Accrombessi

Ali Bongo seems to be attached to the hip to his director of cabinet Maixent Accrombessi, who is now also his assistant at the Grand Lodge of Gabon.

Subscribers only Politics 05.12.2012

Gabon
Police chief pays price

Leon Mistoul, the commander-in-chief of the Gabonese police, will have [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.12.2012

Congo
SREM snags Republic of Congo exploration permits

Societe de Recherche et d'Exploitation Miniere (SREM) obtained its first [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.12.2012

Cameroon
Eutelsat eyes Cameroon

A delegation of executives from Eutelsat paid a visit to [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.12.2012

Congo
Evergreen sparks ire in Republic of Congo

Evergreen, a subsidiary of the Chinese group Evergreen Industries, has [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.12.2012

Gabon
GUIDO SANTULLO (Sericom)

Italian businessman Guido Santullo heads the construction group Sericom, which [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.12.2012

Chad
Former governor in oil deal

Chad president Idriss Deby clearly prefers companies with good political connections to explore the sub-basin of Erdis in north-east Chad. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2012

Chad
Oumar Torbo

The job of secretary general at Chad’s oil ministry has been something of an ejection seat in recent times. After [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2012

Gabon
GOC

Gabon’s oil minister, Etienne Ngoubou, wants to stage a licensing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2012

DRC
BGP

The affiliate of the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2012

DRC
MIBA breaks with Hydroforce

The only private power operator in Congo-K has packed its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2012

Gabon
Doubts over Olam’s project

The firm Muddy Waters that specializes in short selling has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2012

DRC | Kinshasa
Celestin Lumuna Kabuy

Celestin Lumuna Kabuy, the man in charge of the continental [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2012

DRC
Penalties for Gecamines on Deziwa/Ecaille C

Gecamines (GCM) was to have begun on Nov. 13 to start paying $185 million it had pledged to Copperbelt Minerals [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.11.2012

DRC
David Rubinstein

A new gold purchasing agency, the Eda Velma firm, is shortly to open in West Kasai. Its representative, David Rubinstein, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.11.2012

DRC | Kinshasa
New mining code: associated minerals under scrutiny

The mining industry is biting its fingernails about current changes [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.11.2012

DRC
MIBA sinking under debt

The financial woes of Congo-K's state-owned diamond company, Miniere de [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.11.2012

Gabon
Bongo courts London business

Like Niger which held a similar event in June, Libreville is keen to court British interests at the Gabon Investment Forum 2012. Eat your heart out, Paris.

Subscribers only Politics 21.11.2012

DRC
Public Systeme Hopscotch pitches Congo-K to Paris

Frederic Bredin’s Paris-based PR agency Public Systeme Hopscotch handled relations [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.11.2012

Congo
Incosol mulls takeover of Congolese hotel

The management of the Incosol Hotel in the Spanish resort [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.11.2012

DRC
Mer Group heads for Kinshasa

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has contracted the Israeli [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.11.2012

Gabon
ALEXANDRE BARRO-CHAMBRIER (ABC)

Alexandre Barro-Chambrier, 53, was kicked out as Gabon’s minister for [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.11.2012

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