Energy

Gabon
State oil firm GOC in $20m standoff with Turkey's Karpowership

Gabon Oil Co, which is responsible for paying fuel bills on behalf of utility company SEEG to keep Karpowership's floating power stations running, is being sued by the Turkish operator for unpaid bills.

Morocco
Abdelwali Ali el-Himma, son of royal adviser, sets up string of surprising investments

From avocado farming to the distribution of lifts, the young financier has recently positioned himself in a variety of businesses through the British investment fund 54 Capital. Among his associates is a brother of the businessman Yariv Elbaz.

Morocco
Sofia ambassador forced to react to investigation into her driver

Zakia el-Midaoui, the Moroccan ambassador to Bulgaria, has contacted her superiors in Rabat following the revelation by a Bulgarian media outlet of a case involving her driver Mario Alexandrov.

Algeria
End of the road for Cap Groupe, the Rebrab family's other French acquisition

The court-ordered liquidation of Brandt at the end of last year has overshadowed another recent setback for Cevital in France. Yet the Rebrab family has, nonetheless, managed to come out ahead.

Nigeria
Junior Petralon mobilises support to protect its Dawes Island concession

The head of the oil company, Ahonsi Unuigbe, is attempting to persuade the government and the regulatory authorities to appeal against the court ruling ordering the revocation of the junior company’s licence for its field in OPL 2006.

Madagascar
The junta requisitions TotalEnergies' fuel to fly Russian planes

Colonel Michael Randrianirina has reallocated part of the French major's kerosene to enable aircraft controlled by Moscow to land in and take off from Ivato International Airport.

Palace Intrigues
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Michael Randrianirina, Abiy Ahmed, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud

Intrigues big and small: every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

GabonBrice Clotaire Oligui Nguema prepares for his first anniversary as president

Madagascar-Equatorial GuineaBehind Colonel Randrianirina's trip to Malabo

Ethiopia, SomaliaAbiy Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud at cross-purposes

Morocco
Nexus Core Systems makes headway in data centre project

The consortium behind the construction of a $1.2bn data centre has chosen to locate the site on the outskirts of Casablanca.

South Africa
PetroSA ready to forgo $10.8m debt owed by Namibia's UAG Investments

For two years, the state-owned company has been waiting for the payment of several million dollars from a Namibian company to which it sold liquefied petroleum gas. Yet it does not intend to initiate debt collection proceedings, much to the dismay of its employees.

Algeria
Brussels grows impatient with Algiers' delays over trade dispute

The Algerian Foreign Ministry has still not provided the European Union with the name of its arbitrator in the legal proceedings between the two parties concerning their bilateral association agreement.

Cameroon
The World Bank's $600m electricity plan

Faced with a chronic financial deficit and numerous malfunctions, the profitability of recent infrastructures, such as the Nachtigal and Kikot dams, is seriously threatened.