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Central Africa

DRC
Kinshasa: US Lawmakers Debate Mining

The Conflict Minerals Trade Act of 2009 being discussed in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.11.2009

Sao Tome and Principe
Horse-Trading Before Auction

Before Sao Tome puts blocks in its exclusive economic zone on the auction block, ERHC and Equator, which both have rights on the area, are demanding their dues.

Subscribers only Energy 17.11.2009

DRC, Rwanda
Lake Kivu Open to Explorers

Congo-K’s government is currently offering blocks to companies wishing to exploring for methane in Lake Kivu to produce electricity.

Subscribers only Energy 17.11.2009

DRC
Inga 3 a “Nationalist” Project

Africa Energy Intelligence has been told that Congo-K’s Societe Nationale d’Electricite never paid the USD 100,000 that was to have [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.11.2009

Congo
SNPC

Having failed to woo the least oil company to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.11.2009

Gabon
Bongo To Sell Offshore

Often considered but always put back when Omar Bongo ran [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.11.2009

Sao Tome and Principe
Fradique de Menezes

Fradique de Menezes, president of Sao Tome y Principe, was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.11.2009

DRC
Korea Resources Prospects for Copper Mine

Korea Resources Corp (Kores), which signed a cooperation accord with Georges Forrest International (GFI) in March (AMI N°199), is indicating [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

DRC
Swedish Trader Eyeing Coltan, Gold

Mineral Invest Sverige is considering moving into mining coltan, gold and diamonds in Congo-K. Its operations director, Joachim Anderson, met [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

DRC
Calixte Mukasa Kalembwe

As the successor to the Canadian Paul Fortin as Director General of Gecamines, Calixte Mukasa Kalembwe, is carrying out a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

DRC
Anatoli Pantchenko

There has been a series of dismissals or resignations at RusAl in Guinea. On November 1, Anatoli Pantchenko resigned from [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

DRC
Bob Bonde

A laboratory for deoxidising rough diamonds set up a few months ago in Kinshasa by the Antwerp diamond magnate Bob [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

DRC
Randgold Wants to Move 15,000 People in DRC

Louis Watum, director of Randgold Resources, has opened talks with [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

DRC
Tiger Resources in Construction Mode

DRA Mineral Projects (South Africa) is to build a USD [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

DRC
Katanga Tax on Cassiterite Exports

Katanga’s governor Moïse Katumbi Chapwe on October 9 brought in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

DRC
IMF Flies to Congo’s Aid

The IMF’s executive for DRC, Brian Ames, has just gone [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

Gabon
Gabon’s Manganese Strategic Again

Manganese mining in Gabon operated by Comilog (Eramet), an industry [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.11.2009

Cameroon, Chad
Deby on Surprise Oil Visit

According to our sources, Chad president Idriss Deby spent a few hours in Yaounde on Sept. 27 in the company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

Central Africa
Lake Tanganyika a New Frontier

Burundi has just awarded a new license on Lake Tanganyika while Democratic Republic of Congo is also opening the door to exploration on its part of the shore.

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

DRC
Perenco Faces Trouble

The operations of the French-British oil company in Lower Congo were recently disrupted by problems with the local inhabitants.

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

DRC
Inga 3: BHP Stalled in its Tracks

Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that BHP Billiton’s project for the Inga 3 dam is going nowhere at present. A [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

Gabon
Alilat Antseleve Oyima

While Ali Bongo allowed his prime minister Paul Biyoghe Mba, to appoint one of his cronies, Julien Nkoghe Bekale, as [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

Angola, DRC
Escalation on Border

Despite an agreement between Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

DRC, India
Delhi Also in Africa Drive

India is pulling out all the stops to catch up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

Cameroon
Calyon Finances Sonara

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Calyon has syndicated a USD [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

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