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Tanzania
Samia Suhulu Hassan keen for Qatari investment

The Tanzanian president is trying to put the Magufuli era and its private sector woes behind the country. She has been sending gestures to reassure its Qatari partners about investing, starting with its gas sector.

Ivory Coast
Achi hopes to cash in on Bouygues shares in HKB toll bridge operator

The Ivorian prime minister would like to get nearly 7 billion CFA francs (€10.6m) for the shares the state bought in Socoprim, operator of Henri-Konan-Bédié toll bridge, from Bouygues in 2021.

Africa, South Africa
Russians Lukoil and TMK hunt for African contracts in Cape Town

Many representatives from Russia attended the 28th edition of Africa Oil Week in Cape Town, South Africa.

The New Guard
Angola, Mozambique, Egypt, Senegal

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

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SenegalThierno Seydou Ly, the engineer with a career on the fast track.

Mozambique
ExxonMobil reorganises its staff as Rovuma shifts to 100% offshore

The US major does not intend to leave more than 100 trillion cubic feet of gas in the depths of the Mozambique Channel. To extract them, a new crack team of executives is at work to overturn the company's initial choices.

Australia, Morocco, Western Sahara
OCP resumes Western Sahara phosphate exports to Australia

Faced with supply difficulties linked to Russia's war on Ukraine, the Australian fertiliser producer Incitec Pivot has restarted its imports of phosphates from the Boucraa mine in the Sahara, operated by OCP. It had stopped sourcing there in 2016, after protest from Scandinavian shareholders.

Namibia
Chevron's Orange Basin acquisition is part of wider Namibia strategy

The acquisition of Block 2813B by Chevron, which is expected to be announced soon, is the first step in the US oil major's wider strategy to conquer Namibia.

Mozambique, South Africa
South Africa looks to Maputo for its medium-term gas needs

The Matola LNG import terminal project, on the outskirts of Maputo, is progressing quietly. Pretoria, which has no alternative medium-term solution for importing gas, should be the main beneficiary.

DRC
Oil giant ADNOC deploys supertankers to boost trade in Africa

The Emirati firm has since 2018 been strengthening and diversifying its oil trading business, including by poaching staff from TotalEnergies. Since the invasion of Ukraine, it has been making inroads in Africa by dispatching supertankers to countries with no storage capacity of their own.

Namibia
Noronex expands foothold in Kalahari copper

Less known than its fellow Australians Rio Tinto and Sandfire Resources, the mining firm Noronex Resources is expanding in the Namibian Kalahari with five new permit applications in the pipeline. By early 2023, the company should have over 70,000 hectares to explore in this disputed copper region.

Namibia
TotalEnergies and Shell step on the gas in Orange Basin

A second TotalEnergies well, called Venus-2, is expected to begin drilling in Namibia's Orange Basin in the coming weeks.

Central African Republic
Fuel shortages persist in Bangui

Fuel shortages remain acute in Central African Republic, despite the recent arrival of barges carrying fuel supplies.

South Africa
PetroSA and oil ministry feel industry pressure over South Africa petroleum bill

With the adoption of a new oil law still far off, companies are losing patience - and missing no opportunity to take the state oil company and energy ministry to task over the project.

Somalia
Somali officials apologise to ousted UN envoy Haysom in political ploy

The South African diplomat Fink Haysom was declared persona non grata in Somalia by the former president Farmajo in 2019. Some regional officials have now apologised to him, in an apparent ploy to undermine South West state president Abdiaziz Laftagareen.