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West Africa

Ivory Coast
Prime Group set to take over Saf Cacao

A Moroccan businessman has teamed up with a relative of the late Felix Houphouet-Boigny in a bid for the trading company.

Subscribers only Business 31.10.2018

Germany, West Africa
Lufthansa Cargo ruffles Air France's feathers

An agreement reached with Brussels Airlines means the subsidiary of the German giant can bolster its presence in the sub-region.

Subscribers only Business 31.10.2018

Ivory Coast
Kuwaiti funding still pending

The Ivorian authorities have still not received the FCFA 300 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Ivory Coast
Gon Coulibaly awaits cheque in post from Paris

The Ivorian prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who is also [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

France, Niger
Paris set to train paras

A training contingent of operation Barkhane which is already present [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Ivory Coast, South Africa
Radisson set to go up against Accor

Radisson Hospitality AB is stepping up its operations in Abidjan, [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.10.2018

Burkina Faso, Switzerland
Solway Investment Group eyes Tambao

With the law suit involving the Burkinabe state and the [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.10.2018

Ivory Coast
Another gift for NSE

In early October, the Ivorian firm specialising in public construction [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.10.2018

Africa, Russia
Moscow thinks big in Africa

The Kremlin is hoping to hold a Russia-Africa economic forum [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.10.2018

Guinea
Kabinet Sylla enters into talks with Colas

The Djoma Group conglomerate (mines, logistics, media, marketing, sport), owned [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.10.2018

Israel, Ivory Coast
Barry Tal reports back to Abidjan

The Israeli-Canadian businessman Barry Tal, the founder of the security [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.10.2018

Ghana
Subsea 7's contract-winning network

The Norwegian oil services firm has made itself a go-to player thanks to its well-connected Ghanaian networks.

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Nigeria
Who has Cavendish roped in to help reboot OML 110?

Short on the cash needed to develop the resource-rich OML110, the Borno State Deribe family has brought former Mobil and ENI executives on board.

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Togo
Eranove uses solid networks to gain foothold in Togo

The energy branch of pan-African investment fund Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), Eranove (formerly Finagestion), signed a power generation concession with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Nigeria
Shell/Exxon to drag NNPC execs through American courts

Several senior executives of the Nigerian state-owned firm will have to explain themselves in their dispute with ExxonMobil and Shell over OML 133.

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Nigeria
Could Bumi recover its dues through Erin's oil?

The American courts have rekindled the Malaysian junior's hope of obtaining its claim for several million dollars from its former partner.

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Ghana
Who is Gabby Darko, the president's nephew omnipresent in the oil sector?

Officially, the former journalist Gabby Otchere-Darko is not employed by any state institution in Ghana. However, his office has gradually [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Burkina Faso
President Kabore appoints technocrat to head Sonabhy

Burkinabe president Roch Marc Christian Kabore has picked a senior official to oversee the Societe nationale burkinabe d'hydrocarbures (SONABHY). The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Ghana
Benoit Lecinq also working on pushing Entrepose (Vinci) in Accra

According to our sources, the general director of French giant oil services firm Vinci's subsidiary Entrepose Group, Benoit Lecinq has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Mauritania
Where are Total's new permits?

Officialised during French president Emmanuel Macron's visit to Nouakchott in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Niger
International Petroleum: Frank Timis' latest legal setback

The Austro-Romanian businessman Frank Timis and his Australian mining business [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Equatorial Guinea
President scion Gabriel Obiang to ease throttle on Fortuna project operated by ophir

According to our sources, Equatorial Guinean petroleum minister Gabriel Obiang [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Burkina Faso
Kabore appoints a Compaore foe to renewable energies

Often presented as one of the youth leaders of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Nigeria
Process & Industrial Developments accuses Abuja of playing for time

The British Virgin Islands-based firm Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

Ivory Coast
Government defies IMF by leaving CI Energies to raise funds

The Ivorian council of ministers has given the International Monetary [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2018

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