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Central Africa

Africa, DRC
Pangea Diamondfields Pushes Ahead

Only two years after its launch, Pangea DiamondsFields has just inaugurated a new bulk sampling plant. The new unit, imported [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.03.2008

DRC
Mining Code Revision in View in Congo-K

After the meeting of government officials and experts in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.03.2008

Angola, DRC
Diamond Firm in Oil Play

On March 12, Congolese president Joseph Kabila signed a decree (no. 08/022). That confirmed a first-ever block awarded in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.03.2008

DRC
Hitch with New Interconnection

Local inhabitants have risen in protest over a second interconnection between Fungurume in Katanga and Zambia.

Subscribers only Energy 18.03.2008

Gabon
Total To Borrow USD 600 Mn

Total Gabon plans to partly finance a multi-year development program in Gabon with loans. Last year, Total Gabon kicked off [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.03.2008

Central African Republic
Emmanuel Touaboy

The Central Africa Republic’s ambassador to Washington, Emmanuel Touaboy, has become the latest recruit to Jarch Management’s advisory board. Toubay [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.03.2008

Cameroon
Celestin N’Donga

The new managing director of Cameroon’s Electricity Development Corp (EDC), Celestin N’Donga, also happens to be boss of the firm [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.03.2008

Cameroon
Work Starts on Yassa

AES Sonel, the state-owned power company in Cameroon managed by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.03.2008

DRC
Dominion and Soco Win Block 5

As Africa Energy Intelligence had anticipated (AEI 455). Britain’s Dominion [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.03.2008

Congo
Truce with Congo-B

The venture capital fund Elliott Associates and the Congolese Republic [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.03.2008

Gabon
Bakoudou Gold Venture Bearing Fruit

The joint venture in gold exploration Bakoudou-Magnima set up in July 2005 between Searchgold Resources Inc of Canada and Managem [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

DRC
Katanga Major Cobalt Center by 2011

By 2011, George Forrest International and its associates look set to control over half the world’s supply of cobalt, which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

DRC
Ras Al Khaimah Emirate Moves Into Katanga

Hard on the heels of the Chinese and Indians, investors from the Gulf are now taking positions in the rich [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

DRC
Thomas Nziratimana Jiji

Business and politics are closely linked in Congo's mining sector. Thomas Nziratimana Jiji, the former governor of South Kivu, is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

Mali, South Africa
Cheick Diarra

A well-known personality in Africa, Cheick Diarra has just been appointed to the board of directors of the South African [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

Central Africa
Key Central Africa Road Accord

At the beginning of March, the African Development Bank signed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

DRC
300 Chinese Expelled

At the end of February, the governor of Katanga, Moïse [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

Congo
USD 100 Million Private Placing for MagMinerals

MagIndustries, the Canadian group that is pursuing development of several [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

Central African Republic
All Eyes on Block B

Although China Poly Group was awarded block B the deal still needs to be ratified by Parliament and other groups are positioning themselves to bid for it.

Subscribers only Energy 04.03.2008

Gabon
Cobalt Energy Sets Up Shop

After failing in its bid to debut in Equatorial Guinea, Cobalt International Energy has won its first acreage in Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 04.03.2008

DRC
Last of the White Elephants?

Dogged by increasing power cuts, the government is finding it ever harder to finance huge power projects at the Inga dam.

Subscribers only Energy 04.03.2008

Congo
Elliott Seizes Belgian Loan

Belgian overseas development minister Charles Michel revealed a few days ago that Kensington International, an affiliate of the New York [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.03.2008

Central African Republic
Arbitration Left Hanging

Submitted more than a year ago to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a request for arbitrage [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.03.2008

Cameroon
Victor Mengot

Energy and water supply minister Jean-Bernard Sindeu officially named Victor Mengot Arrey-Nkongo as president of the Electricity Development Corp on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.03.2008

DRC
Dorothée Madiya Mwamba

We wrote incorrectly in the last issue of Africa Mining Intelligence (N°173, dated 13 February), that the lawyer Dorothée Madiya [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.02.2008

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