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Africa, United States
Venture capital funds target innovation market

Private equity funds specialising in new technologies are expanding their activities in Africa.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 28.11.2018

Africa, France
Francois Gontier rudely evicted from MagForce

The businessman has been dismissed by the board of this supplier of security equipment that is very active in Africa.

Subscribers only Politics 28.11.2018

Africa, Russia
Moscow deploys soft power

Russia has a full agenda for Africa in 2019. Among the measures planned by Sergey Lavrov and Mikhail Bogdanov, respectively [...]

Free access Politics 28.11.2018

Guinea
Conde and his third term

Serving a third term is no longer a slight temptation [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.11.2018

France, Togo
Gnassingbe takes offence

President Faure Gnassingbe and the Togolese government have expressed their [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.11.2018

Africa, European Union
European experts to bolster G5 Sahel

The European Union, which having contributed €100 million is the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.11.2018

Senegal, United States
US ambassador called into line

The Senegalese foreign minister Sidiki Kaba has formally put on [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.11.2018

Ivory Coast, Netherlands
Damen takes legal action against Adama Bictogo

Societe de transport lagunaire (STL), the subsidiary of the multi-sector [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.11.2018

Spotlight | Mauritania, Senegal
The behind-the-scenes politics that have been torturing the Tortue deal

As we revealed (AEI 828), the path is finally clear for Mauritania and Senegal to take their final investment decision (FID) on the giant trans-border gas field Tortue. Nevertheless, the many political stumbling blocks along the way forced the block [.

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2018

Equatorial Guinea
Can Total take block despite resistance from Teodorin Obiang?

After many twists and turns and misunderstandings, Total hopes to pick up the Equatorial Guinean offshore block EG-18, previously promised [...]

Free access Energy 27.11.2018

Equatorial Guinea
Trident puts affairs in order to take Zafiro for ExxonMobil

With backing from shareholder Warburg Pincus, Trident is setting up an operation to buy the American major's shares in the country's largest producing field, Zafiro.

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2018

Equatorial Guinea
Schlumberger/TechnipFMC meet halfway while Subsea7 sinks

Prompted by the sluggish sector, oil minister Gabriel Obiang Lima, has decided to sanction services companies that do not work with local partners.

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2018

West Africa
Karpower and Aksa forging Ankara's position on the continent

Erdogan's proactive African policy is opening doors and opportunities for the two power giants.

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2018

Ivory Coast
Thierry Tanoh sees Total and ENI as potential cash cows

Talks over new blocks with the two majors could pump up the state coffers by several million dollars.

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2018

Niger
Foumakoye accepts all Sonatrach's demands

Niger can't deny its powerful Algerian neighbour a thing. Sonatrach's international branch Sipex, has secured amendments to its production sharing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2018

Gambia
Adama Barrow gives tandem Petronas-Far six months leeway to pull through

The Gambian government has decided to give Australian firm FAR [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2018

Niger
Oranto blocks: why issoufou dispatched Foumakoye to abuja

According to our sources, the Nigerien minister of petroleum Pierre [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2018

Burkina Faso
Newgenco and Pegasus swoop in on Dablo platinum and nickel

Australian buddies Pegasus Metals and Newgenco Group completed in October the transaction to join forces to explore the Burkinabe Dablo [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2018

Ivory Coast
Tensions flare over Endeavour's Ity redundancy plan

Endeavour's senior management is negotiating with unions over the conditions for the dismissal of employees at its gold mine.

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2018

Togo
Lome starts relocation of populations near mines

As part of its overhaul of the country's mining sector [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2018

Guinea
Metalcorp bauxite developer settles down in Luxembourg

Metalcorp Group, the parent firm of Societe des bauxites de [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2018

Ghana
Businessman Godfred Oppong sees opportunities in reopened ASM sector

While the Ghanaian government has decided to lift its blockade [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2018

Guinea
Full steam on titanium and vanadium

A year after opening shop in Conakry, Base Metal Guinea [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2018

Guinea
Conakry launches platform to help mining subcontractors

The Conakry government has validated a project for the creation [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2018

Guinea
Uyghur brigade to help with geological assessments

The Guinean office of the Brigade No 11 of Xinjiang [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2018

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