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Central Africa

Congo
Congolese diplomats delayed

Intially scheduled to take place in Brazzaville in July, a [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2011

Chad
New management line-up

President Idriss Deby has placed men beholden to him at the head of SHT and the oil ministry.

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2011

DRC
IBOS II looks like front-runner

A letter from Congo-K’s prime minister indicates that IBOS II enjoys a head start in the race to explore the Albertine graben and Lake Tanganyika.

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2011

DRC
Petrobras in Tanganyika bid

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that several executives from Brazil’s Petrobras [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2011

DRC
Kabila on campaign trail

Faced with discontent in the capital, which is experiencing severe [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2011

DRC
EU in gorillas vs oil battle

The European Commission is funding an environmental study by SAFEGA [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2011

DRC
Phosphates : Minbos begins examining samples

The Agrim firm, a unit of Perth-based Minbos Resources that holds a prospecting license on No. 12040 block at Khanzi [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.08.2011

DRC
Russians win the niobium war

The Societe Miniere du Kivu (Somikivu) and its partners KZF and Conrus, affiliates of the Russian mining firm Rosspessplav, resumed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.08.2011

DRC
Mark Bristow

The chief executive of Randgold Resources, Mark Bristow, is ahead of his schedule in Congo-K. The Kibali Gold joint venture [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.08.2011

DRC
Trevor Richardson

Less than four months after the signing of a joint venture pact with Benzu Resources, Trevor Richardson, co-founder of Mukuba [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.08.2011

DRC
Kinshasa, 3-4/10

This year's iPAD DRC conference, an annual gathering on investment in mining, energy and infrastructure in Democratic Republic of Congo [...]

Free access Mining 29.08.2011

Kenya, South Africa
Maghreb Minerals to list on AIM

Maghreb Minerals is completing its transformation into a producer of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.08.2011

Spotlight | Cameroon
Presidential elections: Biya's last stand

Cameroonian President Paul Biya, 78, knows that he is taking a big gamble by standing for re-election in October's presidential poll. In office for the past 29 years, the discreet, inscrutable Biya knows that his sheen of international respectability in [.

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2011

Cameroon
Candidates covet top oil job

The aging head of the powerful oil company wants to pass on the reins. Would be successors are saddling up, like an old-style Western.

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2011

Gabon
Bongo’s bricks and mortar

Using the excuse that it needs to house its diplomats, the Gabonese regime has been buying up property oversees. The latest example is the late Ted Kennedy’s house in Washington.

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2011

Gabon
Creditors kept waiting

Although the Gabonese authorities apparently have the wherewithal to buy up property in various parts of world, they are somewhat slower off the mark in settling their debts.

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2011

Gabon
Moroccan holiday for Ali Bongo

Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba is due to travel to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2011

Cameroon
CBC on the block in Cameroon

The U.S. private equity group Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) is [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.08.2011

Gabon
Sifrigab struggling in Gabon

In October 2010, the Monaco-based company Frozen Trading signed a [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.08.2011

Cameroon
JEAN BARDET (Orange)

The director of Orange Cameroun since July 2010, Frenchman Jean [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.08.2011

DRC
Total bows to WWF on block 3

Unlike Soco and Dominion which have been taken to task by ONGs for wanting to explore in the Vuringa national park, Total has adopted a cautious approach on block 3.

Free access Energy 23.08.2011

DRC
ENI, Kabila and the Vatican

The Italian major hopes to acquire the last block in the Albertine Graben with an indirect leg-up from the Vatican.

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2011

DRC
ZESCO asked to stand in for SNEL

Katanga’s mining companies are hurting from a drop in output from the Inga 1 and Inga 2 dams.

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2011

DRC
A pay-off for Divine

Congo-K’s oil and finance ministers, respectively Celestin Mbuyu Kabango and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2011

DRC
Giovanni Pedaci

Giovanni Pedaci, one of the chiefs of the local affiliate [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2011

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