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DRC
Caprikat/Foxwhelp’s new status

According to our sources, Congo-K president Joseph Kabila gave a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2012

Spotlight | Central African Republic
How Ndoutingai lost his job

The rumor mill in Bangui has been working overtime since the abrupt dismissal of finance State minister Sylvain Ndoutingai, who managed receipts from Central African Republican's diamond industry, in early June. Africa Mining Intelligence has pieced together the reasons behind [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.06.2012

DRC
The new government looks ahead to 2016

A five year program laid out by Congo-K’s new government by prime minister Augustin Matata Ponyo for the period between [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.06.2012

Spotlight | DRC
Storm clouds over Kinshasa summit

Members of the International Organisation of La Francophonie are fearful that new French President François Hollande might carry out his threat to boycott the organisation's 14th conference of heads of state in Kinshasa on October 12-14. In the meantime, worried [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Congo
Sassou clan hit campaign trail

Parliamentary elections in the Republic of Congo on July 15 look set to launch the political careers of Denis Sassou Nguesso's children and other relatives.

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Gabon
NYFA, $4 million publicity stunt

The New York Forum Africa looks set to take place again in 2013, requiring the Gabonese state to dig deep in its pockets once more.

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Chad
Idriss Deby to Mali’s rescue

Chad’s president, a career soldier who fought and survived several rebellions, is considered by other African leaders to potentially have the answers to Mali’s problems.

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Chad
French warned

The French embassy in Chad has told French citizens to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Cameroon
China Shanxi Engineering appeal halts ART project in Cameroon

The contract (CFA 13 billion) to build a new headquarters [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.06.2012

Gabon
Addax Petroleum Gabon receives surprise visit

According to West Africa Newsletter's sources, Etienne Ngoubou, Gabon's oil [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.06.2012

Gabon
Auguste Meviane (Solaris)

The owner of Solaris, a passenger and utility vehicle hire [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.06.2012

Chad
Brazilian takes look at Erdis basin

A Brazilian company with no footprint as yet in African exploration has submitted a bid to operate in the Erdis sub-basin.

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

DRC
Caprikat’s assets up for sale?

The death of Augustin Katumba in a plane crash in February deprived explorers Caprikat and Foxwhelp of their leading backer in Congo-K’s leadership. Kinshasa is now actively seeking to replace them.

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

DRC
Alex Mutombo

The boss of state- controlled Cohydro, Alex Mutombo Tshinbungubungu, has been shown the door. He was replaced at the end [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

DRC
Crispin Atama

Congo-K’s new hydrocarbons minister, Crispin Atama, toured the country’s only oil region for the first time between June 4-6. Atama [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Central African Republic
Sylvain Ndoutingai

The finance minister and man behind the throne of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, Sylvain Ndoutingai, was fired on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

DRC
Soco in EU cross-hairs

According to our sources, Soco International recently offered to present [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

DRC
New stab at reviving Sosider?

A new episode has arisen in the long saga concerning efforts to revive Societe Siderurgique de Maluku (Sosider). In late [...]

Free access Mining 05.06.2012

Cameroon
Sundance: Hanlong to reply in November

There’s a lot of nail-biting at present at Sundance Resources, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.06.2012

DRC
Mwana seeks partnership in Ituri region

Although it set out recently to resume work on the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.06.2012

Gabon
BHP takes close look at Belinga

As Africa Mining Intelligence anticipated (AMI 267), BHP Billiton is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.06.2012

DRC | Kinshasa
Tantalum/tin: halt to sales to China

Kinshasa is blocking all exports of tin, tungsten and tantalum [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.06.2012

Cameroon
COJA in Douala

The African Congress of Company Lawyers (COJA) will hold its [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.05.2012

Gabon
Gabon Airlines gets European greenlight for Boeing

Societe Nouvelles Air Affaires Gabon (SN2AG), one of the few [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.05.2012

Cameroon
SEOUNG-ROK YANG (CNIC)

A South Korean has replaced a fellow countryman as the [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.05.2012

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