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Central Africa

DRC
Jean-Felix Mupande

The managing director of Congo-K’s Cadastre Minier (CAMI), Jean Felix Mupande, has sent an ultimatum to holders of mining rights [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.03.2012

DRC
AM Capital advises Gecamines

The independent investment bank Africa & Middle East Capital, based [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.03.2012

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Elections: Sub-Saharan winter drags on

While the Arab Spring may have raised the hopes of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa, on the whole rulers have managed to avoid regime changes and often made no attempt at transparency during the recent elections across the region. With [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.02.2012

Congo
Sassou gets friendly with BRICS

While pre-electoral France plays the waiting game, the Republic of Congo's impatient President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been busy doing deals with the BRICS.

Subscribers only Politics 29.02.2012

Congo
Italian job for minister

After accompanying President Denis Sassou-Nguesso to Paris (WAS 639), Jean-Jacques [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.02.2012

Gabon
Telemania, power player in Gabon

Earlier this month the Gabonese government awarded the contract for [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.02.2012

Cameroon
CHRISTOPHE EKEN (CCIMA)

The chairman of Cameroon’s Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.02.2012

Chad, Niger
CNPC wants to use Doba/Kribi

The Chinese company is going to try to persuade ministers from Chad and Cameroon to allow crude from Agadem to be carried on the pipeline built by Exxon.

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

DRC
Central Basin carved up again

The president’s office ordered the biggest sedimentary basin in Congo-K to be pegged out. The new blocks are far smaller than previous concessions.

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

Central African Republic
CNPC on Grynberg’s old block

The state-owned Chinese group has been working very discreetly on part of the block operated in the past in a high tension zone by the American Jack Grynberg.

Free access Energy 28.02.2012

DRC
BHP ducks out, Pretoria is back

Dim prospects for the aluminum market prompted BHP Billiton in early February to give up its plan to build a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

DRC
Antoine Ghonda

Several influential figures who handle oil issues in the president’s office in Congo-K lost their seats in legislative elections. One [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

DRC | Kinshasa/Kampala
Caprikat and Foxwhelp off the starting block

The two companies awarded blocks 1 and 2 on Congo-K's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

DRC
Gecamines’ wishful thinking for recovery

Has a new dawn begun for state-owned Generale des Carrieres et des Mines (Gecamines)? The Congo-K copper producer has been [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2012

DRC
Sinohydro to build a new copper concentrator

Construction work on a new copper concentrator with a capacity of 4,000 tons per month was launched by Sinohydro at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2012

DRC
Augustin Katumba Mwanke

The death of Augustin Katumba Mwanke, powerful adviser and mentor to president Joseph Kabila, in a plane crash on February [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2012

DRC | Kinshasa
BHP Billiton pullout, a setback for Congo-K

After six years of vigorous lobbying BHP Billiton has finally [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2012

DRC
Chemaf seeks cash input

The Virji family which runs the Etoile copper/cobalt mine near [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2012

Spotlight | Congo, France
Sassou's Paris charm offensive

In Brazzaville's corridors of power, the Arab Spring and its possible spread to sub-Saharan Africa are of less concern than the Republic of Congo's weaker ties with Paris. Having not been received at the Elysee Palace since July 2010, President [.