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Southern Africa and Islands

Namibia
China National Uranium Corp contests local content at Rössing

While it finalised the purchase of a 68.82% stake in the Namibian uranium mine Rössing from Australian mining colossus Rio [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.03.2020

Zambia
ZCCM-IH seeks outside help to lead charge on diversification plan

Now that its gold production arm ZCCM Gold Co is up and running (AMI 455), the Zambian state company ZCCM-Investments [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.03.2020

Angola
Endiama banks on solar to power up country's diamond industry

The company in charge of Angola's diamond sector, Endiama, has ordered a study on the introduction of solar power in the mines it owns or co-owns in the country.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining 24.03.2020

Spotlight | Angola
Gabriel Shabani sidelined over Luanda monorail project

While his hard work in the Angolan capital seems to have come to nothing, the Congolese businessman is hoping a similar project in his home country will bear fruit.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 23.03.2020

Zambia
Upepo Energy presses on with feasibility study for Mpongwe hybrid plant

Meteorological towers came into service on March 19 at the site of Upepo Energy Zambia's future 150-MW wind-and-solar farm at [...]

Subscribers only Energy, Business 23.03.2020

Madagascar
IBL to open offshore financial services branch in Madagascar

In the next few months, DTOS, one of the financial services offshoots of the Mauritian conglomerate IBL, will set up shop in Madagascar, where it already manages Filatex's financial structure.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 18.03.2020

Angola
Bento Dos Santos ‘Kangamba', a general on borrowed time

A very prominent figure under José Eduardo dos Santos, General Bento dos Santos, aka ‘Kangamba', has been under judicial supervision [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Spotlight | Mozambique
Local content: fragmented bombshell heading Frelimo and Total/Exxon's way

After being bottom on the list of the Frelimo government's concerns since the development of the giant Rovuma Basin gas reserves began in 2010, local content is creeping back up in the pecking order. The question now is whether it [.

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Africa, Angola
Are Spanish giant Repsol's days on the continent numbered?

What has cursed Repsol's African endeavours? Despite the verve of its Exploration Director Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia Didier [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Mozambique
Total and ExxonMobil at loggerheads over Afungi

The supermajors ExxonMobil and Total are miles apart in their thinking on how to invest in the development of the Afungi LNG park.

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Angola
For Friburge Oil, the road to cash lies in oil residues

Angolan firm Friburge Oil & Gas has added a new string to its bow. The services firm created in Luanda [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Angola
Angola LNG Marketing welcomes a Sonagas senior

Angolan national Manuel Barros recently joined the board of the London-based Angola LNG Marketing that sells Angola LNG's LNG production [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Mozambique
Carlyle's EnerMech already poised for comeback

A year after dissolving its Mozambican subsidiary EnerMech Mozambique in December 2018 (AEI 832), the British oil services firm EnerMech [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Africa, Angola
Are Spanish giant Repsol's days on the continent numbered?

Repsol has begun its retreat from Angola, adding the country to a long list of failures on the continent. Only the Spanish firm's North African activities are holding on.

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Mozambique
Truck tracking: Maputo's stranglehold on Trafigura/Glencore

The tax authorities are counting on an ex-Petromoc executive to make traders pay for the tracking of their trucks. Even if that means make its ports less attractive.

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Madagascar
BP toys with Andry Rajoelina's nerves

The British major BP has until the end of March to officially state its intentions for its offshore blocks in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Mozambique
Afungi safety: Total secures air support

The security crisis in Mozambique's oil-rich province of Cabo Delgado, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Mozambique
Prominent Exor Petroleum shareholder waves goodbye to the firm

Aquila Investimentos, a Mozambican company active in the oil & [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Angola
Alykhan Sultanali makes himself at home in Luanda with London Square

Businessman Alykhan N. M. Sultanali has acquired full control of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Mozambique
Qatar Petroleum's Maputo consultants cash in on gas boom

As the fever for Mozambique's gas discoveries heats up, consultancy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Zimbabwe
Tagwirei and Chiwenga swear only by lawyer Pasipanodya

Having had their fair share of legal battles, the Zimbabwean [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Angola
Total Eren teams up with influential businessman to develop solar farm

The French renewable energy firm has joined forces with a company owned by Leonel da Rocha Pinto for a PV project in the south of the country.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 16.03.2020

Madagascar
Emmanuel Macron hesitant over Antananarivo visit

The French diplomatic corps continues to feel uneasy over the Scattered Islands (see here), and the visit of the French [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 13.03.2020

Madagascar
Patrick Rajoelina touts himself as mediator on Scattered Islands

On 4 March, the Franco-Madagascan Patrick Rajoelina took part in the ‘Diplomatic Conversation on the Theme of the Malagasy Islands' [...]

Subscribers only 13.03.2020

Madagascar
Senator Johary Rajobson turns his hand to agriculture with Rekany

President Andry Rajoelina's proposal to reduce the number of senators [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.03.2020

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