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Central Africa

Congo
Approval Seen for MagIndustries Potash Investment Plan

The parliament in Congo-Brazzaville is expected to approve the global [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2009

Cameroon
The Skids Under Bowleven

This autumn the Scottish junior Bowleven loudly declared that its find on the IF-1r well on the Etinde offshore license [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.12.2008

DRC
In the Running for Ruzizi Deal

Firms pre-qualified to help in restoring the Ruzizi 1 power plant submitted bids on Dec. 15.

Subscribers only Energy 23.12.2008

Gabon
Addax Shrugs Off Crisis

Addax Petroleum has announced plans to increase its stake on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.12.2008

Central African Republic
Setback for Ondoko’s Plans

The Congolese businessman Richard Ondoko has been working for years to become an essential player in the Central African Republic’s [...]

Free access Mining 16.12.2008

DRC
Forrest Closes Mine But Keeps Building Plan

The Belgian group George Forrest International (GFI) is to close its subsidiary CMSK (Compagnie Minière du Sud Katanga) from December [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.12.2008

DRC
Dan Gertler

The Israeli diamond magnate who is close to president Joseph Kabila – he invited him to his wedding in June [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.12.2008

Central African Republic
Jean Pierre Colico

Jean-Pierre Colico, who has been a collector of rough diamonds and unrefined gold for around a decade and is a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.12.2008

Central African Republic, Switzerland
Francois Jaclot

This new director of Axmin Inc and the rest of the junior’s board will have to manage a delicate situation [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.12.2008

DRC
Plan to Suspend Coltan and Cassiterite Exports in South Kivu

The Federation of Congolese Companies in South Kivu Province plans [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.12.2008

DRC
Government Reverses Tack

The national ministry for mines, headed by Martin Kabwelulu, is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.12.2008

DRC
Katanga Mining Plans Capital Increase

Katanga Mining is to hold a shareholders’ meeting on January [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.12.2008

DRC
New Blocks Carved Out

Lakes Tanganyika and Upemba are to shortly be divided into several blocks that the government will put up for sale.

Free access Energy 09.12.2008

DRC
Gertler Finds Partners

The Israeli diamond operator Dan Gertler has finally brought two long-standing partners, the Gertner brothers, into his oil block in the maritime corridor between Congo-K and Angola.

Subscribers only Energy 09.12.2008

DRC
SNEL’s Boss in the Hot Seat

The man in charge of Congo-K’s national power company is being grilled by senators and magistrates about what happened to money from a loan.

Subscribers only Energy 09.12.2008

Congo
New Offshore Find

. The French major Total announced that its Moho Nord [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.12.2008

DRC
EIB Invests in Inga Dam

Work on restoring the Inga 1 and Inga 2 dams [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.12.2008

Cameroon
Afriland First Bank

Controlled by Cameroon-born businessman Paul Kammongne Fokam, Afriland First Bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.12.2008

DRC
Are South African Financiers Losing Faith?

South African experts mandated by the Industrial Development Corp (IDC) and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) are to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.12.2008

Central African Republic
Saif Durbar

Still very active in mining in the Central African Republic, this businessman of Pakistani origin who is close to the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.12.2008

DRC
Activity Collapses in Katanga

According to the most recent estimates from the Katanga ministry [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.12.2008

Chad
Breaking Ground for Refinery

The China National Petroleum Corporation is building a refinery at Zinder in Niger but also to the north of N’Djamena.

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

Sao Tome and Principe
Cristina M. Fernandes Dias

On Nov. 11, Cristina Maria Fernandes Dias was appointed energy and mines minister in Sao Tome y Principe’s government. She [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

Congo
Contract for Bouygues in Congo-B

The electricity and maintenance affiliate of France's Bouygues Construction, ETDE, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

DRC
Poyry Environment

The Czech consultancy Poyry Environment has just completed a pre-feasibility [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

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