“Gross negligence”. This is the reason used to justify the suspension of the General Manager and 2 other management personnel of the Radiodiffusion Télévision Guinéenne (RTG). Apart from General Manager Yamoussa Sidibé, the sanction concerns the National Broadcasting Director, Ismael Keita, and the National Television Director (RTG Koloma), Fodé Tass Sylla. Their suspension came into...

The Tunisian minister of Communication Technology and Digital Economy, Noomène El Fehri and Houda Imane Feraoun (photo), Algerian minister of Posts and ICT, met on 26 October 2015. During the audience hosted by his Algerian counterpart, both ministers agreed on strengthening the optic fibre which links the two countries since 2013 in Taref, border wilaya between the two countries. According to...

Indian telecom group Bharti Airtel and telecom infrastructure manager Eaton Towers announced this 27 October 2015 the successful completion of the sale of about 700 telecom towers in Burkina Faso. The success of this operation follows the failure of last week when both parties failed to complete the sale of Bharti Airtel’s Malawian towers. With this new sale, the telecom operator has thus...

Shell has been granted an environmental clearance for exploration drilling in the Orange Basin Deep Water licence area by South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs. The clearance grants Shell permission to drill up to two offshore exploration wells in the northern part of the licence area, off South Africa’s west coast which covers about 37,290km², Oil review Africa reports. In...

PetroSA, has announced that it is considering selling up to 49 % equity stakes in 10 offshore blocks. The stakes on offer includes 10 to 20 % of the company’s current equity holding of 40 % in Block 1 on the West Coast in which Cairn India holds the remaining 60 % interest. PetroSA was also looking to farm out stakes in its Block 9 North, which was close to its...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), have today restated their vow to promote sustainable development in the area of their operations in Nigeria. The Group Executive Director, Exploration & Production, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru (photo), represented by the General Managing, Planning, Nigeria Petroleum Investment Management...

Mercuria Energy Holdings SA has procured a 17 % equity stake in Forte Oil plc. for $200million. Forte Oil is to use the money, from the stake sale as additional working capital for operations in the downstream sector, upstream services, power generation and upstream exploration, in order to further its bid to become a premier integrated energy solutions provider in Nigeria. “Mercuria...

Coal Petroleum and South African private company Kumvest’s are to begin construction at their $4.2-billion coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant project in Botswana in 2016. The project is aimed at tapping South Africa’s more than 200-billion tonnes of coal resources to reduce reliance on petroleum product imports. According to Holland & Hausberger, technical advisers to Coal Petroleum, the...

The European Union has just donated FCfa 42.575 billion to Senegal. Out this funding, FCfa 39.3 billion will go to the the Senegal Emergent Program (PSE). “Through this support, the EU wishes to contribute to food security, improve the performances of a competitive, diversified and sustainable agriculture as described in the PSE” Joaquin Gonzalez-Duray (photo), chief of the EU mission in...

At the end of the third quarter ending on 30 September 2015, the area has been a growth engine for the revenues of Itissalat Al-Maghrib, the Moroccan operator better known as Maroc Telecom. A contribution which was strengthened by the integration of its new subsidiaries (Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Gabon, Niger, Central African Republic and Prestige Telecom which supplies IT services to the...