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Southern Africa and Islands

Comoros islands
President Azali could call for heads

Ministers in president Assoumani Azali’s government feel pretty uncomfortable these [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.12.2016

Angola
Luanda names rare earths a priority in bid to entice Beijing

Luanda is working to cement its ties with Beijing, the country’s leading economic partner, by placing rare earths (China is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Zambia
ZCCM-IH counts on Maamba's power capacity to boost revenue

ZCCM-IH is increasing the output at the Maamba collieries power plant to make it the holding company’s second biggest source of revenue.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 20.12.2016

Mozambique
Paulo Auade Jr, a governor’s son and mining entrepreneur

In early November, the son of the governor in the mining province of Tete, Paulo Auade Jr, teamed up with [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Madagascar
Tim McManus drives down the price for Graphmada

The chief executive of Australia’s Bass Metals (BM) since July, Tim McManus has negotiated a far lower price for the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Mozambique
Rabeca sees the light in mines

Fired early this summer from the board of Mozambique’s power [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Mozambique
Guerilla assaults hold up exports from Beira

An attack on a locomotive of the Indian mining company [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Mozambique
World Bank throws support behind mining in the north

Maputo is to shortly launch an operation to map out [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Zambia
Sullivan takes ZCCM-IH’s side against First Quantum

Contrary to what we reported in our last issue (AMI [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Mozambique
Frelimo cronies jostle for Rovuma's gas

Several companies pre-qualified for projects that involve natural gas have strong ties to the ruling Frelimo party.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Angola
Sonangol struggles behind the scenes to escape financial quagmire

While Isabel dos Santos is spending all her time battling Sonangol’s financial woes the company is making headway with reforms.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Mozambique
As minister, Leticia Klemens depends a lot on ENH boss Mitha

Appointed energy and mineral resources minister in October, Leticia Klemens takes her advice from the managing director of ENH, Omar [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Mozambique
Wentworth Resources has big plans for Cabo Delgado

The Canadian explorer Wentworth Resources is in the market for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Mozambique
Government leans over backwards to accelerate gas projects

To speed up development of the LNG projects of ENI [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Zimbabwe
Crown Agents asked for help in renovating power plants

Zimbabwe’s finance ministry recently awarded a contract to the British [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

South Africa
Still in the red, PetroSA is nonetheless doing better

While PetroSA is still losing money - it incurred a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

South Africa
Thulamela representing BP in suit against distributor Intertrans

The British major BP is being represented by two lawyers [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Mozambique
Guebuza’s in-laws still have a head for business

Just because former president Armando Guebuza could be held responsible for the $2 billion of loans taken out in secret [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.12.2016

Madagascar
Dominovas Energy curries favour with the president

The Conference des Bailleurs de Fonds et Investisseurs (CBI) donors conference held in Paris on Dec. 1 and 2 did [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.12.2016

Mozambique
Nuno Uinge, the Abreu family’s favourite partner

Businessman Nuno Sidonio Uinge has once again teamed up with Grupo Videre¸ a company owned by former minister and Frelimo [...]

Subscribers only 09.12.2016

Comoros islands
Nourdine Abodo, the wrongly punished legal advisor

The setback the Constitutional Court inflicted in September on President Assoumani Azali by invalidating his abolition of the Commission Nationale [...]

Subscribers only 09.12.2016

Madagascar
Who is Mohammed Benjilany, Morocco’s new ambassador?

The dean of the diplomatic corps in Madagascar after 10 years in the post, Mohamed Amar, who is accused of [...]

Subscribers only 09.12.2016

Madagascar
Henri Rabarijohn, the discreet donors' conference architect

The organisation of the Conference des Bailleurs de Fonds et [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2016

Madagascar
Aggreko to the rescue of the OIF summit

Authorities in Madagascar had to change their plans at the [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.12.2016

Comoros islands
Int’Air Iles spreads its wings

Aviation company Int’air Iles (formerly Inter Iles Air), led by [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.12.2016

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