For some days now, a group of experts from the Roland Barger firm with a team from the Cosumaf, the Commission for monitoring financial market in central Africa, is in Cameroon. The reason for their stay after passing through Gabon, Congo and Equatorial Guinea, revealed during a press conference held in Douala on September 12, 2015, is to collect data from various economic operators in the frame...

The website www.guineevote.com is entirely dedicated to the presidential election in Guinea, which first round is scheduled to take place on 11 October 2015. This online platform was launched by the Association of Bloggers of Guinea (ABLOGUI) which seeks to give the citizens a means to ensure themselves the transparency of the polls. The project stemmed from the ambition of ABLOGUI to put ICT at...

Robex Resources Inc., company listed in Frankfurt and Toronto, announced on 11 September the progression to full speed of the expansion works on its Nampala mine in Mali, specifying that it is looking at making operational at the latest by 20th October the two complimentary carbon-in-leach tanks for this project. This will allow the company to increase the mine production, it added, to reach...

In Guinea, a food industry complex will be built in Timbi Madina in the Pita prefecture. The infrastructure, which construction works were launched by President Alpha Condé, will enable the processing of cassava and potatoes. Of a total cost of USD 14 million, it will be entirely financed by the Guinean government. Its establishment in Fouta-Djalon meets the need to bring closer to the main...

In Morocco, the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) wants to support entrepreneurship through a call for projects launched by its fund dedicated to innovation (OCPIF). According to the fund, this initiative will enable OCP to identify and support projects with the capacity to have a sustainable socio-economic impact in the sectors of agriculture and food industry. The OCPIF website indicates...

The governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT), Chedly Ayari, announced on 14th September that his country is planning to issue a Eurobond of about USD 500 million benefitting from an American guarantee in order to consolidate the viability of its public finances. Mr. Ayari clarified that the United States have already given their "agreement in principle" to guarantee this new issuance. Mr....

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila has approved a new oil code envisioned to enforce order on a haphazardly regulated sector, according to Engineeringnews. The code, which was signed by the president last month but has not yet been published online, does not contain major changes from the text passed by parliament in June. Moreover some activists feared that Kabila...

Ali Bongo was hosted yesterday afterday at the Elysée by his French counterpart, François Hollande. Both personalities touched on subjects marring the good quality of relations between France and Gabon. The Gabonese president expressed his intense displeasure at the treatment given to his chief of staff, Maixent Accrombessi, who was unceremoniously taken in for questioning during a recent stay...

Green Energy International Ltd (GEIL), operator of the Otakikpo Marginal Field offshore Nigeria, adjacent to shoreline in the Eastern part of the Niger Delta, announced it recently acquired a license for 10 MW captive power from the Nigeria’s National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) as well as its being recently granted a license by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for...

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) suppliers Easigas and Reatile Gaz are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to merge their respective Southern African LPG operations in order to create a truly regional player. Engineeringnews reports Easigas is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rubis Group in France, and has operations in South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana while...