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Central Africa

DRC
Gold’s the flavor of the month

Uncertainty has been lifted over Congo-K’s gold industry and the fate of the defunct Office de l’Or de Kilo Moto [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

Burundi
Taking a look at prospects for nickel

Could Burundi be shaping up as a nickel producer? Companies are working on the ground in the hope it will. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

DRC
"For Sale" sign over Kisenge Manganese

Transformed from a state-owned company into a firm run along [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

DRC
Shot in the arm for MIBA

Congo-K's national diamond producer Societe Miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA), which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Cleaning up African politics

Is the African Union just a tad out of touch? While young people, who make up the vast majority of the population in Africa, have been demonstrating in the streets of Tunis, Algiers and Cairo, on January 28 Obiang Nguema [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Central African Republic
Bozize keeps it in the family

Since Francois Bozize’s victory in the first round of the presidential vote on January 23, a fifth of the country’s parliamentary seats have gone to members of the president’s family.

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Gabon
Obame’s shadow cabinet outlawed

Opposition leader Andre Mba Obame’s move to declare himself president, ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections later this year, has exacerbated political tensions.

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Congo
Conference could be bad PR

Claudia Sassou Nguesso the president’s daughter, and his son Christel, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

DRC
Atlantique group banks on Congo-K

Atlantic Financial Group (AFG), the holding company that owns Banque [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

Cameroon
MOHAMADOU BAYERO FADIL (Fadil)

The chairman of the Fadil group, which is in media, [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

DRC
Workers give Perenco a hard time

A walkout by the Franco-British firm’s workers brought a complete halt to Perenco’s operations for a few days in early February.

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Central Africa
New Lease on Life for Sinelac?

The three governments that hold stakes in Sinelac, which operates Ruzizi, have vowed to regularly pay their bills. That promises to inject fresh money into the company.

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Cameroon
Pierre Bang

The final page of Total E&P Cameroon has officially turned with the recent appointment of its managing director, Pierre Bang, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Gabon
Koreans rival Sinopec

China is no longer the only Asian country to curry [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

DRC
Soco fights gorillas' friends

The British oil company Soco doesn't seem ready to take [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Burundi
Interpetrol Spared Trial

Burundi’s supreme court won’t be examining a suit by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

DRC
Fall in Tshikapa region’s diamond output

Small-scale production has dropped sharply in the Tshikapa region of West Kasai province which is rich in jewel-grade diamonds and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.02.2011

Cameroon
South Koreans in Cameroon diamond play

C&K Mining Corp, a joint South Korean-Cameroon firm, has been [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.02.2011

DRC | Kinshasa
Mining to shortly resume in east

A ban on small-scale mining in eastern Congo-K will shortly [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.02.2011

Gabon
Mrs Bongo's run-in with French customs

Gabon's first lady had to endure a luggage search at Paris' Le Bourget airport during a visit mid-January, West Africa Newsletter can exclusively reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 26.01.2011

Gabon
Ali Bongo’s pre-electoral team

Prime minister Paul Mba kept his job in the January 14 reshuffle, but his circle of allies has shrunk considerably.

Subscribers only Politics 26.01.2011

Gabon
Maixent Accrombessi promoted

Ali Bongo has made some significant changes in his cabinet. Laure Olga Gondjout and Maixent Accrombessi emerge as the key figures.

Subscribers only Politics 26.01.2011

Gabon
BGFI, property developer in Gabon

the BGFI group, headed by Henri Claude Oyima, signed a [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.01.2011

Gabon
SCI-Dossio’s hotel designs for Gabon

Gabonese Finance Minister Francoise Assengone Obame gave government authorisation on [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.01.2011

Gabon
BERNARD AZZI (Prix Import)

Chairman of the Prix Import chain of stores, Bernard Azzi, [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.01.2011

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