President Sall's hidden oil asset: Mamadou Kane

• SENEGAL - Mamadou Fall Kane, presidential oil adviser, branches out into mining

• GUINEA-BISSAU - Saico Umaro Embaló, the president's nephew and Turkey envoy

• DR CONGO - Arthur Omar Kayumba, Tshisekedi's Grand Inga irritant

• ETHIOPIA - Wintana Shimelis, in charge of the UK's Diageo in Addis

• LIBYA - Ahmed al-Sharkasi, the PM's low-key advisor

Mouhamadou Makhtar Cisse, cuts figure as oil minister with little power 

After stepping in as the minister of petroleum and energy in April, Mouhamadou Makhtar Cisse, may find himself busy with

Petrosen boss Mamadou Faye picks Schlumberger 

Several weeks ago, Senegalese State firm Petrosen named Franco-American services concern, Schlumberger as the successful bidder for a technical consultancy

Why the world bank is backing oil ministry 

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Senegalese state-run firm Petrosen is

Macky Sall's oil joker, Mansour Elimane Kane 

President Macky Sall has appointed an oil minister for the first time. The sector has previously been under the wing

Why there won’t be a new energy minister for several months 

Senegalese prime minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne will personally look

New setback for Kosmos and BP on Tortue 

A meeting about the trans- border Tortue gas field organized

President's oil advisers in seemingly perpetual motion 

Senegal president Macky Sall’s adviser on oil questions, Mamadou Fall

Sall personally takes oil sector in hand 

Senegalese president Mackey Sall has been prompted by the discovery

Kosmos in highly confidential talks on Tortue 

The American explorer has ordered a blackout on information about its giant, trans-border reserve as negotiations unfold.

Statoil could return to the charge 

The election of Macky Sall as Senegal’s new president is expected to bring a number of majors, which were disinclined to deal with Aboulaye and Karim Wade, back to the country.

Aly Ngouille Ndiaye 

Senegal’s new mines and energy minister, Aly Ngouille Ndiaye, was one of strongest backers of the country’s freshly-elected president Macky