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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

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

Spotlight | Gabon
Bongo fuels oil sector power struggle

Preferring to expound on Gabon’s ‘green’ industries, President Ali Bongo Ondimba rarely speaks in public about oil, despite the fact that even though it is diminishing, the country’s output of crude oil remains Gabon’s primary source of revenue. The last [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Congo
Commisimpex keeps on fighting

Bank accounts held by the Republic of Congo’s Paris embassy have been frozen, unfrozen and frozen again. The embassy’s financial troubles are far from over.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Cameroon
Patton Boggs goes on charm offensive

The U.S. lobbying firm Patton Boggs has signed a new contract to represent the Cameroonian government in 2012 for $300,000 fee.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Gabon
Ali Bongo woos the UPG

Fresh from his party’s landslide victory in Gabon’s parliamentary elections in December, Ali Bongo is keen to form an alliance with the late Pierre Mamboundou’s UPG.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Ethiopia, Gabon
Ping looking good

On the eve of the African Union summit taking place [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Congo
Happy families

Denis Sassou-Nguesso's children did not attend a ceremony in Brazzaville's [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Cameroon
LOUIS-PAUL MOTAZE (Lom Pangar hydroelectric project)

Louis-Paul Motaze, the former economy minister who is currently secretary-general [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

Gabon
PIERRE RETENO NDIAYE (Sogara)

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

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

DRC
Total lands block 3 at last

A week after his inauguration, Congo-K president Joseph Kabila honored his word by signing a decree allowing Total to operate [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

DRC | Kinshasa
Pluspetrol on the right track

Executives from Argentina's Pluspetrol appear virtually certain to buy out [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Cameroon
Jean-Pierre Ancel

A former adviser to France's Cour de Cassation, legal expert [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

DRC
Central Bank in court over diamond case

The Banque Centrale du Congo (BCC) is due to appear before a magistrates court in Brussels on Jan. 18 in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2012

Congo
Brazzaville, 02-06/04

The 15e Africa Oil Gas Mine Trade & Finance Conference & Exhibition will take place on the premises of Parliament [...]

Free access Mining 10.01.2012

DRC | Kinshasa
Inquiry into violation of ethnic community rights

Justice minister Emmanuel Luzolo Bambi announced in late December that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2012

Gabon
Bongo’s parliamentary coup

Two years after his contested electoral victory in August 2009, President Ali Bongo has made Gabon’s parliament even more monolithic than it was in his father Omar Bongo’s day.

Subscribers only Politics 04.01.2012

Gabon
Diplomatic tensions with Brasilia

President Ali Bongo wants Gabon to work with an array of international partners. But the country’s chaotic foreign service does not necessarily facilitate matters.

Subscribers only Politics 04.01.2012

Congo
Commisimpex negotiates

Having managed to have some sixty Congolese embassy bank accounts [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.01.2012

Congo
Sono Plus sues Brazzaville

Francois-Xavier Malinowski, the head of Sono Plus, a French company [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.01.2012

Cameroon
Mohamadou Bayero Fadil (Fadil group)

Founder and head of the food industry group Fadil, Mohamadou [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.01.2012

Gabon
Edouard Valentin (SCG-Re)

The CEO of Ogar-Vie, Gabon’s leading insurance group, and a [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.01.2012

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