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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Tanzania
Zambia and Congo-K minerals feel embargo pinch

The embargo placed on non-transformed mineral products in Tanzania, as [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Spotlight | South Sudan
Why talks with Total over block B have reached an impasse

Two months after Arthur Eze’s Nigerian junior Oranto was granted block B3 with great pomp (AEI 789), the South Sudanese authorities have met with the historical operator of block B, Total. The idea behind the talks is to hash out [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

Kenya
Tanzanian investors delight in KenolKobil opportunity

The closure of Kenyan oil group KenolKobil’s Tanzanian branch in late 2015 did not make the company any less attractive [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

Kenya
Influential Cypriot family plugs into electricity

EP Global Energy, owned by powerful Cypriot family Paraskevaides, submitted two electricity supply licence applications with the Energy Regulatory Commission [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

Djibouti
New energy minister Yonis Ali Guedi does a bit of spring cleaning

Heads have already begun to roll in the country’s energy institutions following the new minister of energy Yonis Ali Guedi’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

Kenya
What is Octant Energy going to do on Afren's blocks?

While the Kenyan authorities have validated Octant Energy's purchase of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

Tanzania | Junior
Orca still chasing Tanesco money

Despite recording earnings of $64.7 million for the financial year [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

South Sudan | Law firm
Centurion Law eager to be local oil firms’ favourite

After helping the Equatorial Guinean oil minister Gabriel Obiang Lima [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

East Africa
AfDB sets target to improve oil legislation

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is gearing up to recruit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

Kenya
Smartmatic seeks to make hay out of Safran-Gemalto war

With the electoral process now in dangerous waters, a company cited in the Petrobras affair has entered the fray.

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Djibouti, Ethiopia
Bleak days for Black Rhino

A project to build a pipeline between Awash in Ethiopia and the Damerjog port in Djibouti is on the point of being dropped.

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Tanzania
Stamico about to start mining coal

According to our sources, Tanzania’s State Mining Corp (Stamico) is due to start mining coal at Kobulo Hill in the [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Document | Tanzania
U.S. envoy tried to get Authentix back in for fight for contract

The American ambassador to Dar es Salaam, Virginia Blaser, and Tanzania’s energy ministry, Sospeter Muhongo, are said to have attempted to get the government to bring the American firm back into competition for a contract.

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Ethiopia
Workeneh Gebeyehu must own up to OPDO

Foreign minister Workeneh Gebeyehu is going to have to declare his assets but not to the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Kenya
Anania Mwaboza, key backer for Ruto on the coast

Businessman Anania Mwaboza has emerged more and more as vice president William Ruto’s man in Kenya’s coastal region. He’s expected [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Kenya
Njee Muturi, the president’s everlasting favorite

Solicitor General Njee Muturi is more than ever the trusted aide of head of state Uhuru Kenyatta as he seeks [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Djibouti
US turns up the screws on Guelleh

Apart from a meeting on April 22 between U.S. defence [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.04.2017

Djibouti, Eritrea
Asmara appoints new charge d'affaires

The Eritrean government under president Isaias Afwerki recently named a [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.04.2017

Kenya
Will Mombasa fall to president Kenyatta ?

President Uhuru Kenyatta and vice president William Ruto can claim [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.04.2017

Sudan
Trump offers new hope to Al Bashir

The government in Khartoum has decided to re-open its military [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.04.2017

Kenya
Kenyatta and Ruto differ over new boss for Kenya Power

The camps of president Uhuru Kenyatta and vice president William [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

South Sudan
SFO launches probe of De La Rue

The Indian Ocean Newsletter has received a letter dated April [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Kenya, South Sudan
Kenya Commercial Bank starts turning its back on Juba

Efforts to overhaul the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) are about [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Kenya
Colas and SBI inaugurate SBC (Kenya)

The British subsidiary of France’s Colas company (which, in its [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

Tanzania
Kioo to seek fresh shine for its glass

The Tanzanian firm Kioo, the only manufacturer of glass bottles [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2017

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