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Southern Africa and Islands

Angola
Sonangol (almost) knocks Cobalt out

Clocking in a net loss of $150 million for the third quarter of 2017, with $167 million in interest payments [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2017

Angola
Saturnino and Azevedo, Lourenco's new oil bosses with Isabel Dos Santos out of picture

By appointing close allies to the head of Sonangol and the oil ministry, Joao Lourenco is keeping the country's money maker under his wing.

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2017

Angola
Sonangol stands strong against critics

As it navigates stormy political waters, the national oil firm is also being held responsible for severe power outages.

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2017

Mozambique
Anadarko's asia trip draws a blank

The leaders of Anadarko have still not managed to secure [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2017

Madagascar
The president already imagines his dreams with AfDB as come time

By announcing that the African Development Bank (AfDB) plans to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2017

Madagascar
Who are the Karana friends of the Ravalomananas?

Marc Ravalomanana and his wife are increasingly surrounding themselves with Karana businessmen whose financial support will be valuable to him [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.11.2017

Seychelles
Alain Saint-Ange, a new political troublemaker?

The former minister of tourism, Alain Saint-Ange, may be about to upset the power-sharing balance between the government of President [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.11.2017

Mozambique
Guebuza's brother-in-law snares a big Chinese fish

The former defence minister and brother of Maria da Luz Dai Guebuza, the wife of the former president Armando Guebuza, [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Madagascar
Stormy times ahead for an Aquamas director

The shareholders of Aquamas, a crustacean and shrimp farming company, are in the eye of the storm. One of them, [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Mozambique
President Nyusi unable to shake off the secret loans scandal

The scandal of the hidden loans is continuing to dog the president, who is under pressure from bondholders involved in the transaction and from the American courts.

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Mozambique
Dino Foi tries his hand at agriculture

The businessman Dino Foi, who in the past has run several media outlets belonging to the family of the former [...]

Free access 17.11.2017

Madagascar
The Ambohimanambola power station is non-compliant

Inaugurated in great pomp by President Hery Rajaonarimampianina on 7 [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Mozambique
Ocean clean-up operations attract the Turkish and a Guebuza partner

The Mozambican Jorge Simiao Martins Manjate, who is a business [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Madagascar
Hassanein Hiridjee and Senegal on different wavelengths

The dispute, already several months old, which is pitting the [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Madagascar
Progress in the dispute between Polo Garments Majunga and the government

Might there be light at the end of the tunnel [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Seychelles
The skies are clouding over for the national airline

Air Seychelles is entering a zone of strong turbulence which [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Madagascar
China's CHEC is getting impatient

President Hery Rajaonarimampianina is anxious not to antagonise Chinese investors [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Angola
Bombarded on the oil front, Joao Lourenco shores up his mining turf

While handing over the reins of the oil sector to Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola's former president (AEI 802), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.11.2017

Mozambique
World Bank increasingly playing nurse to mining sector

In early November, the World Bank's board of directors approved [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.11.2017

Angola
Alrosa boss Sergei Ivanov Jr explores his options for Africa

Russian giant Alrosa, which in late June signed an agreement [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.11.2017

Angola
U.S. business community backs Cobalt against its shareholders

The American Chamber of Commerce has weighed in on the class action taken against Cobalt by its shareholders over the company's activities in Angola, pushing for the case to be dropped.

Subscribers only Energy 07.11.2017

Mozambique
Cabo Delgado companies request ENH's accounts

Members of the grouping of SMEs of Cabo Delgado province, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.11.2017

Mozambique
U.S.-Mozambique oil technology alliance

The country's gas opportunities are continuing to attract foreign investors [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.11.2017

Angola
PwC's unswerving support for Sonangol

Sailing past some heavy competition from the likes of international [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.11.2017

South Africa
Derek Light worries minister of natural resources

Lawyer Derek Light has stepped into back a group of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.11.2017

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