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DRC
Ducroire Doubts STL's Viability

Speaking before the Belgian Senate's panel conducting an inquiry into the "Great Lakes", Jean-Pierre Pauwels, head of the Belgian export [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.01.2003

Spotlight | Congo
Blackmail on the High Seas

TotalFinaElf has just lost its exploration permit on the Haute Mer concession, which covers most of the country's shallow offshore, but is seeking operating licenses for the Moho Bilondo and Nsoko fields

Subscribers only Energy 21.01.2003

Congo
A Deal Mixing Gems & Power?

Determined to establish himself in Congo-K, the diamond trader Beny Steinmetz is offering to have his Bateman engineering group build power stations.

Subscribers only Energy 21.01.2003

Congo
European Union and Transparency

Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Congo-B president Denis Sassou Nguesso plans to take advantage of a session of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.01.2003

Central Africa
Three-Sided Defense Pact

Angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos summoned his Congo-K and Congo-D counterparts, Joseph Kabila and Denis Sassou Nguesso, to Luanda [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.01.2003

Gabon
South Africans on the move

The small private South African company Rockover has followed the country's state-owned oil company PetroSA in gaining a foothold in Gabon's onshore.

Subscribers only Energy 21.01.2003

Cameroon
Euroil in Battle with Pan African

The British concern Euroil and Canada's Pan African are competing to acquire the Sanaga South gas field in the Douala/Kribi-Campo basin.

Subscribers only Energy 21.01.2003

DRC
UPC Rebels Grab Mongbwalu's Gold

The Mongbwalu gold mine that forms the heart of Ashanti Goldfields' concession in Congo-K, fell into the hands of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.01.2003

Central African Republic
Chill Between IDV and Buyers

In its report ?Diamonds in the Central African Republic? that appeared on Jan. 13, the NGO Partnership Africa Canada gave [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.01.2003

DRC
Alexis Thambwe Mwanba

Legal trouble has caught up with Alexis Thambwe Mwanba, diplomatic adviser of Jean-Pierre Memba (MLC) in the future national unity [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.01.2003

Gabon
EDF Clears 29 Million Euro Grant

The European Development Fund has given a go-ahead to a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.01.2003

DRC
Kimberley Certification Starts

The Congo-Kinshasa government officially set the Kimberley certification system in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.01.2003

Africa, DRC, South Africa
Independent diamon valuators, Decorum capital partners, the National union of mineworkers

INDEPENDENT DIAMOND VALUATORS, an Antwerp-based assessment company run by Samuel [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.01.2003

Congo
Lubilanji 2 Inaugurated

The new Lubilani power station that will supply Kasai has stirred controversy in the province.

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Congo
New Methods at SNPC

A meeting of Societe National des Petrole du Congo's board in Brazzaville on Dec. 30 decided under pressure from oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Gabon
COFACE Downgrades Libreville

The French export credit guarantee agency Compagnie d'Assurance pour le Commerce Exterieur downgraded Gabon's credit rating from B to C [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Cameroon
SNH Declares Independence

In an attempt to beat off Cameroon's creditors the national oil company SNH told a French court it didn't form part of the government.

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Cameroon
Find in Douala Basin

ConocoPhillips has just made a discovery in the Douala basin, an area where no major field had been identified up to now.

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Sao Tome and Principe
Bid to End Stalemate with Abuja

Contacts between Nigeria and Sao Tome shifted into higher gear at the end of 2002 as the two worked to clear the way for a bidding round this year in the Joint Development zone (JDZ) they share.

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Congo
Trading Entity Packs Up

A trading mechanism that Congo-B's SNPC established in the form of a Special Purpose Vehicle has been smothered in its crib by the country's creditors and never operated.

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Sao Tome and Principe
Compromise with Parliament

A squabble between the Sao Tome parliament and president Fradrique Menezes late last year over a bill to revise the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

DRC
Jean Mbuyu

A lawyer by training and a former human rights activist in his native Katanga region during the Mobutu era, Jean [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Congo | CORPORATE COUNCIL ON AFRICA
Promoting Congo-B

The Corporate Council on Africa that represents American firms operating [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

DRC
Opposition Well Placed in Mines

Opposition movements will acquire a significant say in the economy in general and in the mining industry in particular if [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.12.2002

DRC, Sierra Leone, South Africa
MIL INVESTMENT, KAPUTO SAMBA, NORTHAM PLATINUM

MIL INVESTMENT is preparing to complete a feasibility study on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.12.2002

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