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Cameroon
Kamto in Sparrowhawk's grip

The anti-Biya front - a growing army of former policial allies now ranked against the president - acquired a new recruit in August, the former justice minister Maurice Kamto. Biya is planning his riposte.

Subscribers only Politics 29.08.2012

Congo
Sassou appoints new oil chiefs

After his Parti Congolais du Travail's landslide victory in recent parliamentary elections, President Denis Sassou Nguesso took time out to reshuffle the deck at the national oil company.

Subscribers only Politics 29.08.2012

Ethiopia, Gabon
Jean Ping, party-pooper

Preparations are in full swing for the inauguration of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.08.2012

Cameroon
CamShip privatization under scrutiny by Cameroon

After Camair, a new Cameroonian privatization scandal could be in [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.08.2012

Congo
BLAISE ELENGA (Eminence Conseils)

Legal counsel to Société nationale des pétroles du Congo (SNPC) [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.08.2012

Congo
Pilatus dropped by one and all

The Pilatus company hasn't been able to pay for preliminary work for a well scheduled to be drilled at the end of the year and a company that was to find partners for it has backed out.

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.2012

DRC
Soco buys out Ophir’s assets

The South African firm Ophir has got what it has been seeking since last year: disposal of its share in block 5 in the East African rift as quickly as possible.

Free access Energy 28.08.2012

DRC
Inga still working below capacity

The Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) is priding itself on coping better than it did in 2011 with drought that has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.2012

DRC
Jean-Yves Petit

The executive in charge of Total’s operations in Congo-K and based at the group’s headquarters in Paris, Thierry Monmont, was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.2012

DRC
Rise in oil receipts

Congo-K’s 2012 budget promulgated by the president on July 20 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.2012

DRC
Kinshasa riles ENI

According to our sources, Italy’s ENI recently sent a letter [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.2012

DRC
Finance: Gecamines keeps head above water

In recent weeks, Gecamines obtained a substantial part of the money needed to finance its $900 million strategic recovery plan. [...]

Free access Mining 21.08.2012

DRC
MIBA triples its output

The Miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA, 80% owned by state, 20% [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.08.2012

DRC
Tough-minded experts to conduct Gecamines audit

Three accountancy and audits concerns have been chosen by Gecamines [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.08.2012

Congo
Sassou son in Parliamentary orbit

The big winner in Congo-B's legislative elections on July 15, Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, youngest son of the Congolese president, will use his victory to tighten his grip on the country's political levers.

Subscribers only Politics 25.07.2012

Gabon
Andzembe fires broadside at Bongo

On the eve of a summit meeting of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC in its French initials) in Brazzaville on July 25, Philbert Andzembe stirred a bit of a fuss among the region's leaders.

Subscribers only Politics 25.07.2012

Cameroon
Avic International hits turbulence in Cameroon

Hardly had a contract been signed on July 4 between [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.07.2012

Central Africa
GICA up in arms

The Groupement Interprofessionnel de Centrafrique (GICA) complained to prime minister [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.07.2012

Spotlight | DRC
Total, Caprikat & Soco caught up in tumult

Security problems in the eastern part of Congo-K are such that some oil companies like France’s Total are seriously thinking of declaring force majeure. To that can be added the controversy over Soco International’s exploration in the Virunga national park, [.

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.2012

Congo
Pilatus seeks partner for Ngoki

The United Arab Emirates firm Pilatus Energy doesn’t want to proceed alone in drilling a well and has retained a Paris-based firm to find a partner for the operation.

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.2012

DRC
Moves to stop river from silting up

Last year was particularly bad for power generation at the Inga 1 and 2 dams. Congo-K's energy ministry is trying to prevent silt from once again threatening supplies to Kinshasa.

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.2012

DRC
Reza Mered

The new managing director of Perenco RDC, Reza Mered, took up his post last week. According to our sources, he [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.2012

DRC
GCM’s joint ventures under the microscope

The administrator of Gecamines, Ahmed Kalej N’kand, kicked-off a series of audits of the group’s joint ventures in early July. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.07.2012

Central African Republic
N'doutingai replies to AMI article

In response to an article entitled "How N'doutingai lost his job" in our June 20 issue (AMI No 276), he [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.07.2012

DRC
Congo-K: Aid as prelude to code revision

The Promines program co-financed by the World Bank's International Development [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.07.2012

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