Maurel & Prom has launched the first two wells of the Mnazi Bay gas field which will be delivering the Madimba processing center; operated by GASCO an affiliated company of TPDC, the entry point of the gas pipeline linking Mtwara to Dar es Salaam. Maurel & Prom went into Tanzania in July 2004 with the Bigwa-Rufiji-Mafia permit in which it holds a 60% interest. In 2009, it strengthened...

A joint bid has been submitted by OAO Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil producer and Exxon Mobil Corp. in Mozambique’s fifth licensing round in order to explore the Angoche Basin and Zambezi Delta. Rosneft and Irving, a Texas-based Exxon Mobil produces oil together off the coast of Russia’s Sakhalin Island and explored Russia’s arctic seas, an area subject to some U.S. and European Union...

Germany, approving of the Tunisian policy with regards to renewable energies, wishes to broaden the energy cooperation between the two countries. “Germany applauds the strategy adopted by Tunisia to promote renewable energies. It is even considering strengthening its partnership with the country in this sector” claimed Thomas Silberhorn, the German State Secretary for Development Cooperation....

Last year, at the start of the commercialisation by Algeria Telecom of “4Gfixe” throughout the country, Zohra Derdouri, former Minister of Post and Telecommunications, revealed that the commercialisation of 4G mobile would occur in the first quarter of 2016. In the run-up to this target date, the Ministry of Posts, IT and Telecommunications and the regulatory agency for post and...

A consortium formed by the groups Bolloré Africa Logistics, CMA CGM and China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC) has been chosen for the management of the container terminal of the Kribi Port in Cameroon, according to a communiqué from the Cameroonian Prime Minister Philémon Yang published on 26 August. The French-Chinese consortium will also be in charge of the expansion of the terminal,...

The Central African government has just awarded tropical wood trader Rougier SA a logging development and settlement concession of 270,000 hectares of forest. This concession, located in the Sangha-Mbaéré prefecture, was won by the French group following an international tendering process. Rougier, who has the rights to operate on this area for 25 years through its Rougier Sangha Mbaéré...

DNI Metals Inc, a Canadian mining company, won full mining permits over the graphite project, in the district of Amparafaravola in Madagascar towards the end of July. With this mining licence in hand, the company which is listed in Toronto and Frankfurt, claims it is in a position to accelerate the implementation of this graphite project located in the region of Alaotra-Mangoro, we learn. ...

Here is what Morocco has to say about a dispatch published on 21 August 2015 by Agence France Press (AFP): “The facts in the dispatch are incorrect and untrue”. It is the main message of the communiqué disclosed by the Moroccan Minister of Communication, Mustapha el Khalfi. The press article in question concerns the main separation walls in the world; the text along with a map presenting...

Mobile telephone operator LAP GreenN, threatened with a forced merger by the Ivorian government for several payment defaults, has been transferred to the Libyan postal, telecommunications and IT company (LPTIC). Formerly an asset of sovereign Libyan funds, Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), LAP GreenN owes the Ivorian State the sum of FCfa 8,899,960,748 representing different charges, notably...

During the 2015-2016 cocoa season, officially launched on 7 August 2015, the Cocoa and Coffee Inter-professional Council (CICC) will make available to producers of the Centre and South-West regions, about ten post-harvest treatment centres of excellence for cocoa, we learn from authorised sources. These are, as explained at CICC, units comprised of two fermentors and two dryers, all placed under...