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Cameroon, Congo
First trucks for Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore project due in Kribi port

A reception ceremony is planned for early November. [...]

Published on 01/11/2024 at 05:40 GMT

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Baowu Steel
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Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh twists Minister Laurent Esso's arm over Mbalam-Nabeba ironworks

The justice minister has once again attempted to negotiate a financial agreement with Australian operator Sundance Resources, former concessionaire of a mining project. He was vetoed by the presidency's Secretary General Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, who is in favour of continuing the arbitration in Paris.

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Reception ceremony for Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore equipment cancelled

The event was to have been held on 11 November.

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Yaoundé strives to save its arbitration against miner Sundance over Mbalam iron

Cameroon missed the deadline to submit its defence, but the president's office has contacted its legal counsel and experts in a bid to defend its position against the Australian miner. Meanwhile, Paul Biya's return to the country is likely to align the various parties in Yaoundé.

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Mbalam-Nabeba iron: Ngoh Ngoh and Esso rivalry lies behind obstructed arbitration

The arbitration proceedings at the ICC between Cameroon and Australia's Sundance over the Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore deposit continue to stall, with the former's justice minister not acting upon the secretary general of the president's office's instructions.

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Mining minister urges president's office to move forward on Sundance arbitration

When a Cameroon delegation headed to Beijing for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation one of the key issues they sought to bring up was the Chinese-funded Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore mine. Arbitration proceedings to settle a dispute with the former project developer are still at a standstill.

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Cameroon
Yaoundé's unpaid bills threaten to derail iron ore arbitration

The Cameroonian government has not paid the costs of the proceedings, nor the fees of the lawyers and financial expert who have assisted it in the case against the Australian company Sundance Resources.

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Cameroon, Congo
Alexandre Mbiam will struggle to keep his promises on Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore project

The Cameroonian businessman, who has good links with the authorities in Yaounde and Brazzaville, is trying to give the impression that his legal battle with Sundance, which was deprived of the project in late 2021, will affect neither the Chinese financing he hopes to get for it or its production date.

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Cameroon, Central African Republic
Between business and politics, the secrets of Antoine Ndzengue's rise

Senegal
Paris and Dakar mull defence relations

Cameroon, Congo
First trucks for Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore project due in Kribi port

Cameroon
Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh twists Minister Laurent Esso's arm over Mbalam-Nabeba ironworks

Congo
Brazzaville sets up mining investment firm

Cameroon
Reception ceremony for Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore equipment cancelled

Cameroon
Yaoundé strives to save its arbitration against miner Sundance over Mbalam iron

Cameroon
Mbalam-Nabeba iron: Ngoh Ngoh and Esso rivalry lies behind obstructed arbitration

Cameroon
Mining minister urges president's office to move forward on Sundance arbitration

Cameroon
Yaoundé's unpaid bills threaten to derail iron ore arbitration

Cameroon, Congo
Alexandre Mbiam will struggle to keep his promises on Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore project