The scene is set for the end of the Mobutu regime even though Zaire watchers don't believe a Kabila regime is likely to follow. Instead, they are betting on a coup d'etat in Kinshasa preceded or followed by negotiations and [.
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The 16 French, three British, an American and 70 Nigerians taken hostage on the ETPM barge DLB1 on March 11 [...]
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In the latest of its surveys on the oil industry in West Africa that covers seven countries -- from Cameroon [...]
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The Senegalese utility Senelec has its gas for the additional production planned at Cap de Biches with its 50 MW [...]
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African exports of crude and condensate rose sharply in 1996. To be sure, French purchases from Black Africa jumped 25.6% [...]
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Just as a final production sharing accord was signed between Petronas, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and State Petroleum (Arakis) [...]
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The jack-up Trident XIV will mobilize from the U.K. to [...]
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Ashland and Abacan are in negotiation with Santa Fe over [...]
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The tender rig Al Baraka I managed by Forasol-Foramer which [...]
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An agreement has just been signed to unitize the licences [...]
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Algeria is going to increase its gas supplies to Tunisia. [...]
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Mines minister Manga Boukar signed an agreement on March 12 [...]
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Diamond Offshore's semi Ocean Liberator will be assigned to Forcenergy [...]
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The giant Rabi Kunga isn't doing badly but it's shrinking [...]
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Texaco is understood to have issued tender documents for a [...]
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The state-owned Norwegian company Statoil, which operates in partnership with [...]
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Pride Petroleum Services announced on March 10 that it had [...]
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A newcomer to Africa (see "Gabon") this small Miami-based E&P [...]
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GEC-Alsthom has started renovation work on the diesel-powered Ntakura station near Ruhengeri in the north-east part of the country close [...]
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Nigelec has been marked down for IMF-World Bank-type privatization along with the water company SNE and oil storage firm Sonidep. [...]
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Portugal had hoped to reach agreement on the price of [...]
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Rueul Khoza, president of the African Mining Group, a black-business [...]
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A boost in production from 2kg a month to 10 is the goal that the AFDL's "economy minister," Mawapanga Mwana [...]
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After re-locating most of his gold trading business to Goma from Burundi, Tony Goetz, founder of the trading and gold [...]
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De Beers plans in mid-1997 to re-open the purchasing office for uncut diamonds that the South African group closed in [...]
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The Toronto-based firm AfriOre which holds an exploration licence on the Yanga-Koubanza base metals deposit in southern Congo halfway between [...]
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Canada's Emerging Africa Gold company this week began a 6,000 [...]
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