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Central Africa

DRC
Investment Returns as Review Draws to Close

The Congolese mining sector finds its situation much clearer following the end, at least officially, to the mining review on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.12.2009

Gabon
Mining of Manganese to start soon at Ndjole

Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale des Mines de Huazhou (CICMH), part of China’s CITIC, is to begin mining the manganese deposits [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.12.2009

DRC
Mazorro Moves into Congolese Mining

A new Canadian junior has just moved into the east of Congo. Mazorro Resources, whose shares are quoted in Toronto [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.12.2009

Gabon
Managem to Start Work on Gold Plant in June

Managem, a 75% owned subsidiary of the Moroccan industrial and financial holding company Ona, has decided to plough USD 32 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.12.2009

DRC
Niotan Named by UN

The American company Niotan Inc. has been named together with [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.12.2009

Gabon
Four Projects on SEEG’s Mind

According to our sources, the Societe d’Energie et d’Eau du Gabon (SEEG), which is 51% owned by the French group [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.2009

DRC
Sinohydro Could Stand in For Mag

Talks on an eventual takeover of MagIndustries by Sinohydro have already produced fallout in Kinshasa.

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.2009

DRC
Negotiations with ENI Put Back

According to our sources, the Congolese officials who were to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.2009

DRC
Propadev

The consultancy headed by Paul Frix, former chief of Belgium’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.2009

Angola, Nigeria
Rilwanu Lukman

Rilwanu Lukman, Nigeria's oil minister, will attend the next meeting [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.2009

Cameroon, Chad
Mahamat Nasser Hassane

Mahamat Nasser Hassane, Chad's oil minister, will travel to Cameroon's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.2009

DRC
ENRC Becomes Major Player in Cobalt

When Kazakhstan’s Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. (ENRC) bought 94.33% of the Central African Mining & Exploration Co. (CAMEC) – which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2009

DRC
Malta David Forrest

George Forrest’s eldest son is to take on the job of chairman of George Forrest International SA on January 1. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2009

Burundi
Danko Konchar

It turns out that finally, the South African company Samancor, one of the world’s leading chrome companies and which belongs [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2009

DRC
Thomas Kaplan

The American company Caracal Gold, a subsidiary of Electrum, owned by the New York businessman Thomas S. Kaplan, began prospecting [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2009

Gabon
Moanda Output To Rise in Gabon

Annual manganese production at Comilog’s (67% owned by Eramet) Moanda [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2009

Gabon
More Chinese Workers for Belinga?

The number of Chinese workers hired to operate the Belingairon [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2009

DRC
Congo President Aims to Rescue Miba

Congo’s president Joseph Kabila has promised to spend USD 20 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2009

Gabon
Gabon Updates Resources Data

Libreville now has updated data on its mining and geological [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2009

Burundi
Minister Fired for Political Misstep

Burundi’s government has dismissed its energy minister in the run-up to elections because of his mishandling of a debt to the country.

Subscribers only Energy 01.12.2009

Burundi
“Monsieur Ndolo”

Published in the United States last month, the biography of the legendary trader Marc Rich (The King of Oil, published [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.12.2009

Congo
Promising Find for Soco

Three years ago Soco had to fight to get into [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.12.2009

Cameroon
Major Loan for Dibamba

The International Finance Corp., private investment unit of the World [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.12.2009

Congo
Clash Looms Over Potash Deposits

Private interests increasingly covet Congo's potash deposits. Now a legal battle is brewing over them. According to our information, uncertainty [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.11.2009

DRC
Kinshasa: Paris Club Ruffled by KMT

Meeting in private in Paris on November 18, the Paris [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.11.2009

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