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Central Africa

Chad
What CNPC pledges for Djermaya

Chinese officials and Chad’s government have reached an agreement to re-open the Djermaya refinery but the deal doesn’t look like complicating life for CNPC

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2012

Cameroon
GDF LNG likely to start in 2017

According to our sources, GDF-Suez Cameroun will kick off environmental and geophysical impact studies in coming weeks on the site [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2012

DRC, Rwanda
KivuWatt could start up in 2013

After years of delays, Lake Kivu’s methane could start generating significant amounts of power in 2013.

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2012

Chad
SHT

The ministerial panel set up in early February by president [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2012

Burundi
Major loan for Regideso

Having already won two loans from the World Bank since [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2012

Gabon
GE Energy

The affiliate of the American giant General Electric, GE Energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2012

DRC
Niobium: Proxy war between Krall & Somikivu

The firm Krall Metal Congo and Austria’s Michael Krall on one side and the Societe Miniere du Kivu (Somikivu) on [...]

Free access Mining 07.02.2012

DRC
“Three Ts”: UN banned from probe in China

Despite a promise in 2010, Beijing hasn’t authorized the United Nations to put questions on its soil to Chinese companies [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Gabon
Libreville sees BHP as suitor for Belinga

According to our sources in government circles, Libreville is thinking of turning the promising Belinga iron ore project over to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

DRC
Francois Muhire

The latest United Nations report on armed groups in the eastern part of Congo-K, published in December, said that different [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Congo
Sassou and Sarko's tête à tête

Nicolas Sarkozy has given Denis Sassou Nguesso a wide berth since the Arab Spring, but the Congolese leader has finally got a date with the French president.

Subscribers only Politics 01.02.2012

Congo
Fake passports scandal

Suspected of operating a fake diplomatic passport service, the Republic of Congo's foreign ministry is being probed by the country's intelligence services.

Subscribers only Politics 01.02.2012

DRC
Bouygues back in Kinshasa

After several years' absence, the French construction group Bouygues is [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

DRC
ZOE KABILA (Cosha Investment)

Elected MP for the PPRD Party in Manono, Katanga, in [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

Cameroon
JOSEPH-ANTOINE ONAMBELE (ICC)

The exclusive Cameroonian representative of a number of Chinese businesses, [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

Chad
Why Deby closed down Djermaya

China’s CNPC and the government are attempting to resolve their many differences and secure the future of the Djermaya refinery. But there’s no saying they will succeed.

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2012

Cameroon
EIB less generous on Kribi project

The European Investment Bank is to lend €29.5 million instead of the €40 million that had been expected for the construction of the Kribi power plant.

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2012

DRC
Inga 3 or Grand Inga: what choice?

A lot of circumstances, mainly technical, are working in favor of building a Grand Inga dam rather than Inga 3.

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2012

DRC
Total wins its exploration license

Congolese oil and gas minister Celestin Mbuyu Kabango has delivered [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2012

DRC
Alstom to restore Inga II

The French energy group Alstom has been chosen alongside Austria’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.2012

Gabon
Eramet set to lose its manganese crown

In launching pilot production of manganese at M’Bembele last year, China’s CICM Huangzhou signaled an end of Eramet’s de facto [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

DRC
CMSK/GCM: Forrest wins first round

The Forrest group can claim victory in the first round of a procedure pitting it against state-owned Gecamines. The latter [...]

Free access Mining 24.01.2012

DRC
Gem trading agency in Bandundu

A first diamond trading agency was opened on Jan. 7 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

DRC
Coltan and cassiterite smuggling on the rise

Contraband is increasing in the eastern part of Congo-K as [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Gabon
PIERRE RETENO NDIAYE (Sogara)

The managing director of the petrochemical and oil products company [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

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