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Central Africa

Cameroon
GDF Wants its Liquefaction Plant

Having opened an office in Yaounde in 2009, France’s GDF-Suez now wants to proceed quickly with a project to build a gas liquefaction plant.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.2010

DRC
Nseke to Cost Miners a Mint

Restoration of the Nseke power plant between now and 2012 will force mining companies to either lower their output or pay for expensive emergency generators.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.2010

Angola, DRC
Kinshasa Holds its Fire

Anxious to avoid the ire of Angola, Kinshasa still hasn’t [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.2010

Gabon
Mystery Over Oil Auction

Since the end of September, rumors have had it that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.2010

DRC
Niobium: Russians Take a Bite of Somikivu

The Russian chromium producer RossPetsPlav worked through the joint venture Congo-Russia Industry last month to acquire 10% in Societe Miniere [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.10.2010

DRC
First-Ever Bid to Take Diggers in Hand

A pilot scheme to "rationalize" small-scale mining has been underway since September at a copper and cobalt mine at Mbola [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.10.2010

DRC | Kinshasa
Gurkhas for Chemaf

Seventy Gurkha guards from Nepal have been hired by the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.10.2010

Congo
Sassou to take control of army

After a handful of uniformed soldiers pulled out guns and ran amok in Brazzaville at the beginning of October, Sassou N'Guesso is more determined than ever to bring the army into line.

Subscribers only Politics 13.10.2010

Gabon
Paris’ luxury hotels thank Ali Bongo

The Gabonese president’s stay in Paris at the end of September entailed a series of professional interviews in the most luxurious of settings. West Africa Newsletter takes you on a guided visit.

Subscribers only Politics 13.10.2010

Congo
Sassou's new palace

Denis Sassou NGuesso will move into his new palace at the end of October.

Subscribers only Politics 13.10.2010

Congo
ALPHONSE OBAMI-ITOUA (Translo)

Alphonse Obami-Itoua, 51, heads the transit firm Translo, owned by [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.10.2010

DRC
Tullow Mounts Legal Assault

In its bid to recover blocks 1 and 2 in Congo-K, Tullow Oil has started legal proceedings against the new owners in the Virgin Islands and Paris.

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2010

Gabon
More Gabonese Oil Staff

The Organisation Nationale des Employes du Petrole (ONEP) has succeeded [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2010

DRC | Geneva
Celestin Mbuyu Kabango

Celestin Mbuyu Kabango, Congo-K's oil minister, will be one of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2010

DRC
Areva Battles to Finalize Grandiose Deal

Over 18 months after French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s whistle-stop visit to Kinshasa to arrange for Areva to debut in the [...]