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Projects progress but politics cloud the future in Côte d’Ivoire
New petroleum, energy and renewable energy minister Abdourahmane Cissé’s approval of plans for Paris-based investment company Eranove Group to build a 390MW gas-fired power plant at Jacqueville, near Abidjan, and for Globeleq’s 430MW Azito plant to add another 253MW in a CFA225....
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Côte d’Ivoire
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Morocco/Ethiopia: Al-Amoudi released at last, his empire under pressure
Saudi authorities have released Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi after more than 14 months in detention, initially in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, in the corruption purge ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud. As with other...
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Morocco, Ethiopia
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Algeria: Sonatrach transforms itself despite uncertainty over presidency
After more than a decade when Sonatrach senior management was cowed by allegations of severe corruption and fled from confrontation with commercial realities, the giant corporation is now rapidly implementing a new vision. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, now in the 20th year of his...
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Algeria
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African growth under pressure as economic storm clouds gather
Updated forecasts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) show global expansion weakening with the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) growing by an estimated 3.7% in 2018, and forecast at 3.5% in 2019 and 3.6% in 2020. The projections are downward revisions from October’s...
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Africa
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Central Africa’s crisis of leadership hinders economic and social uplift
One region seems above all others to stubbornly buck the positive political and economic trends recorded over two decades by African Energy: it comprises the six Communauté Economique et Monétaire de l’Afrique Centrale (Cemac) countries and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)....
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Central Africa
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New protest shuts in Libyan oil field
On 17 December, National Oil Corporation (NOC) declared force majeure at the 315,000 b/d Sharara oil field, which is operated by the Akakus Oil Operations joint venture and co-owned by NOC, Spain’s Repsol, France’s Total, Austria’s OMV and Norway’s Equinor. It had declared force...
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Libya
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Côte d’Ivoire politics end Tanoh’s term as energy minister
The sacking of petroleum, energy and renewable energy minister Thierry Tanoh, formally announced on 10 December, was not unexpected. Tanoh had been in conflict with powerful players, notably influential presidential adviser and former minister Adama Toungara, over a planned...
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Côte d’Ivoire
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