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Spotlight | Zimbabwe
THE REFORM CRUNCH IS COMING

Despite some slight recovery in the second half of 1993, the economic balance sheet for 1993 remains pretty mediocre for Zimbabwe: inflation and interest rates have declined but the growth rate (about 1 or 2 percent of GDP) is lower [...]

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Spotlight | Mozambique
ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Another mandate for presidential-candidate Joaquim Chissano, whose re-election in the face of competition from rival runner Afonso Dhlakama seemed assured as the December 3-4 presidential election approached, will be sharply influenced by the equilibrium between his FRELIMO (governmental) party and [.

Subscribers only Politics 04.12.1999

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

The Chad government signed a preliminary accord with Vivendi to take over management of the Societe Tchadienne d'Electricitre et d'Eau [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Zimbabwe
TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

The Zimbabwe government and the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) have just submitted a draft of a new System Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.1999

Cameroon, Chad
WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

With the pipeline project between Doba and Kribi coming up before the board in mid-October (AEM 258) the World Bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.1999

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Following the IMF's lead, the World Bank will on September 13 present a third structural adjustment credit line for Zimbabwe [...]

Subscribers only 04.09.1999

Cameroon, Chad
THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

An obstacle to the funding of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline in the form of a U.S. bill named "Demilitarization for Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Chad president Idriss Deby flew to Washington on May 24 to voice his concern over delays in the Doba-Kribi pipeline project to World Bank president James Wolfensohn. Cautious, Wolfenson met earlier in the morning with representatives from three environmental organizations, [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Of the three regional gas or gas-electricity projects that could be completed by the end of the decade in sub-Saharan Africa the West African Gas Pipeline (WAPG) based on reserves in Nigeria, where 2 billion cu.

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.1998

Benin
WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

The World Bank affiliate International Development Association will shortly approve [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.11.1998

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Ten companies will submit bids when an invitation to tender is issued next week for the privatization of the state-owned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.1998

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE DELAYED

No fundamental problem appears to stand in the way of an agreement between Cameroon and the World Bank on the Chad-Kribi oil pipeline and the need to protect the environment and foster economic and social development, according to Patrice Mandengabassa, [.

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Cameroon, Chad
NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

The World Bank is to stage new negotiations before the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

The second phase of the Oso development project centered on the production of NGL has been commissioned. Output began at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Tanzania
YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

The financial package for the Songo Songo project will be put together completely at the end of 1998, AEM learned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

The privatization programme for Madagascar's public-sector enterprises has just been updated by the World Bank with a new timetable dated [...]

Subscribers only 27.06.1998

Chad
GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

A "summit of the seven poorest countries" organized by the Greens on June 12 in the European Parliament's building in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Spotlight | Africa
ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

If Bill Richardson is mostly known for his peacemaking skills as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations – he exercised them with talent in Bosnia and in more controversial fashion in the Congo-Kinshasa imbroglio – his appointment on June 18 [.

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Senegal
HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Hydro Quebec has just confirmed in Dakar that it is in the running to become Senelec's strategic partner following the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.1998

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

The Chad-Cameroon oi development and pipeline project that are awaiting the green light for IDA loans - the total was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.1998

Madagascar
SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

The consultant Price Waterhouse who prepared the privatization programme of Solima (petroleum products) according to a cession formula known as [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.1998

Madagascar
MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

The World Bank mission which went to Antananarivo last month is insisting that the government must privatize the state-owned banks [...]

Subscribers only 14.03.1998

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

The Exxon group which operates in Chad's oil project and in the TOTCO and COTCO companies that will operate the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.1998

Spotlight | Madagascar
WORLD BANK SECRETS

On Madagascar, implementation of the economic reform programme passes by firm spoonfeeding at all stages of local institutions (presidency, prime minister's office, economic ministries, etc) by International Monetary Fund and World Bank representatives. Objective: to neutralize all political interference by [.

Subscribers only 21.02.1998

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Work on the pipeline that is to link the Doba oil basin in southern Chad to the future terminal at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1998

Spotlight | Canada
UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Road repairs around Kinshasa and humanitarian missions were all that Laurent Kabila's government won from the "Friends of the Congo" conference organized under the auspices of the World Bank on Dec. 3-4 in Brussels. The "stabilization and recovery" plan prepared [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Madagascar
GLENCORE PROJECTS

Glencore, a large Swiss-based petroleum trader, recently approached a Paris bank to propose a financial package for Madagascar. The deal [...]

Subscribers only 25.10.1997

Niger
NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Nigelec has been marked down for IMF-World Bank-type privatization along with the water company SNE and oil storage firm Sonidep. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.1997

Ethiopia
CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

An Ethiopian company has kicked off a project to extract and process up to 65,000 tons of liquid petroleum products [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.1997

Ethiopia
TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

Ethiopia's energy and mines ministry signed two contracts for studies last month with BEICIP-Franlab, the consultancy and international engineering unit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.1997

Spotlight | Africa
FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Forty four projects had been accepted by the end of 1996 or were at an advanced stage in the French Global Environment Fund's (FFEM) pipeline. The projects slated to receive grants from the Fund organized by the Caisse Francaise de [.

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.1997

Tanzania
LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

The liberalization of Tanzania's oil industry, which has long been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.1997

Gabon
OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Ocelot Energy won two licences to be operated on a production sharing basis in Gabon following negotiations that were already [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Sao Tome and Principe
FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

A project to establish a free trade zone in Agulhas [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Equatorial Guinea
SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

As Equatorial Guinea is a small country with rich oil prospects several big groups are scrambling to install the first [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Uganda
PROMISES, PROMISES

During the meeting of the World Bank consultative group on Uganda, held in Paris on November 21 and 22, Uganda [...]

Subscribers only 07.12.1996

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Nigeria has managed to fend off the threat of oil or other sanctions with for a selective release of jailed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.1996

Zambia
BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

The government has completed the privatization of British Petroleum Zambia [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.1996

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, has begun work on three projects for loans to Ethiopia, [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

Mozambique
WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

A Portuguese bid to acquire all or part of the shares of the government and/or Lonrho in the Beira-Harare pipeline [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.05.1996

Mali
TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

The World Bank has announced approval by the International Development Association (IDA) of a $23 million loan that had been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

The timetable will be honored, as with electricity-generation, but the privatization of Congo's downstream oil sector will leave a government [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.05.1996

Spotlight | Mozambique
GET THINGS MOVING

The approaching World Bank consultative group on Mozambique has relaunched the debate on cleaning up Mozambique's state-owned companies. International fund donors are expected to use the Paris meeting (April 17 and 18) to jog the Maputo authorities over their failure [.

Subscribers only 30.03.1996

Kenya
STEP BY STEP REFORMS

A meeting of the consultative group of donors for Kenya held in Paris under the auspices of the World Bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.1996

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Work is shortly to begin on the liquefaction plant that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) is to build at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Algeria
WORLD BANK LOAN

The World Bank is considering a $75 million loan to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.1995

Tanzania
AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

After four years of studies and negotiations, an agreement to proceed with the Songo Songo gas and electricity project was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.1995

Madagascar
GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

The opening of Madagascar's electricity sector to "private capital" has been underscored in a so-called "outline document for economic policy" [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.1995

Spotlight | Kenya
KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

The Kenyan government and the Kenya Power & Lighting Corporation (KPLC) unveiled their energy projects, loan requirements and the reforms they've already undertaken during a conference with donors on Sept. 11-12 in Paris. But no fresh funds were offered and [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Congo
PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

AEM understands that the World Bank is counting on Congo's privatization process being completed by next June at latest. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Nigeria
REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

An agreement to build a regional gas pipeline tying Benin, Togo and Ghana into the fields in Nigeria's Escravos basin [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Kwesi Botchwey may owe his downfall to a drillship. The dismissal of Botchwey, a top-rate finance minister who played a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Marked on June 10 by the largest opposition demonstration seen in Antananarivo since last year, the campaign for the impeachment of the head of state Albert Zafy, which opposition MPs are now threatening to continue inside parliament, has rekindled the [.

Subscribers only 17.06.1995

Morocco
IMPORTS MONOPOLY TO END

With the government poised to privatize the country's two refineries at the end of this year, draft legislation putting an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.1995

Spotlight | Cameroon
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

"There is a lack of openness in the oil sector" and a drop in receipts appears inevitable, confirmed a report entitled "Macro-Economic Survey of Cameroon after the Devaluation" commissioned by the French cooperation ministry. The report resulted from a mission [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.1995

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Mauritius' ministers of finance (Rama Sithanen) and energy (Swaley Kassenaly) are expected to be in Paris next week for a [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
A WORLD BANK CATALOGUE

Pierre Demangel, who holds the Malagasy dossier at World Bank headquarters in Washington, apparently doesn't hold a grudge against prime minister Francisque Ravony although the latter was targetting Demangel - without naming him - when he commented on April 6 [.

Subscribers only 21.04.1995

Spotlight | North Africa, West Europe
EUROPE-MED ENERGY POOL

Energy cooperation in the Mediterranean will figure high on the agenda at a conference in Barcelona on Nov. 12 between the foreign ministers of the 15 European Union countries and 13 nations on the southern and eastern rims of the [.

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.1995

Congo
GOVERNMENT SELLS ELF CONGO STAKE

No sooner had a law been adopted to allow the government to sell its stake in Elf Congo than the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
BID TO REVIVE EXPLORATION

Madagascar intends to open all of its sedimentary zones to oil and gas exploration this year with a revised legislative framework allowing for production sharing accords for the first time instead of the so-called "participation" agreements which prevailed under the [.

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Congo
END OF THE OIL-STATE

The government last week took a major step towards privatization as championed by the IMF and World Bank when it [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Ghana
ABOADSE LAST GOVERNMENT SCHEME

The Aboadse thermic power station will probably be the last built in Ghana by the Volta River Authority (VRA) without [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Tanzania
TIPER'S BACK TO THE WALL

The World Bank has made the closure of the Tanzania-Italy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE ACCORD SEWN UP

Long-running negotiations between the Chad oil consortium and Yaoundé over the trans-Cameroon pipeline that is required to carry Chad's oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.1995

Nigeria, West Africa
REGIONAL GAS PACT

Nigerian oil minister Don Etiebet signed an agreement in early January with his counterparts from Benin, Togo and Ghana to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.1995

Kenya
EIB FINANCING PIPELINE WORKS

The European Investment Bank has confirmed its participation in bankrolling the rehabilitation of the pipeline linking the port and refinery [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.1995

Congo
CALL FOR CORAF CLOSEDOWN

Congo is preparing to privatize the Congolaise de Raffinage (CORAF) concern in the second quarter of 1995 as the World [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1994

Eritrea
PRIVATE CURE FOR ENERGY BRANCH

The World Bank is calling for the energy sector in Eritrea to be gradually turned over to private hands in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1994

Zaire
WORLD BANK'S GUARDED OPTIMISM

The World Bank's delegate for Central Africa and the Indian Ocean, Eugene Scanteje, met in late November with prime minister [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

Chad
WORLD BANK PREPARES LOAN FOR MAJOR PROJECT

Chad's major oil project has bounced back onto the agenda [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

West Africa
WORLD BANK SET ON GAS PROJECT

There is every indication the World Bank has set its mind on seeing an existing gas pipeline in Nigeria between [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

Spotlight | Madagascar
1995 A KEY YEAR

The first invitations to tender are expected to be issued in 1995 for Madagascar's electricity project dubbed "Energie II" while new impetus has been given to reforms in the oil sector although investment in the refinery branch has been shelved.

Subscribers only Energy 23.11.1994

Madagascar
REFINERY DITCHED IN IDA PROJECT

A consultancy will be chosen from a short list by the end of January to carry out three studies forming [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.11.1994

Kenya
HEADWAY ON IDA SCHEME

A delegation from the World Bank was expected in Nairobi on Nov. 21 for talks on a so-called Energy programme [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.11.1994

Spotlight | Kenya
FREE MARKET BLUES

The companies that distribute oil products in Kenya are facing a choice in the short term of either squeezing their profit margins, not to say accepting losses, or resigning themselves to ushering in the new free market era with a [.

Subscribers only Energy 09.11.1994

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit, [.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Tanzania
NEW START FOR SONGO-SONGO PROJECT

A company is currently being set up under the name [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Spotlight | Africa, Europe
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK: NEW LENDING PUSH?

The level of the European Investment Bank's commitments could climb this year if a number of projected loans currently in the pipeline, and particularly concerning energy projects in Africa, are approved. As the Luxembourg-based institution never puts up money alone [.

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.1994

Cameroon
EDZOA BOSS OF SNH

As predicted (AEM 139), the new secretary-general in the president's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.08.1994

Ivory Coast
WORLD BANK ROLE IN VRIDI

An agreement was signed in Paris on July 20 between partners in the Compagnie des Energies Nouvelles de Cote d'Ivoire [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.07.1994

Spotlight | France
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES: FRENCH STRATEGY

In early July a round-table committee will examine a first series of applications for funding under a new pre-financing facility created by France for international projects on renewable sources of energy, particularly solar, and on energy conservation.

Subscribers only Energy 15.06.1994

Cameroon
REFORMS PLANNED WITH IDA

The International Development Association (IDA) is examining a $50 million loan to Cameroon for an "adjustment" programme for the country's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Spotlight | Congo
NEW UPSTREAM LAW

Congo signed a production sharing agreement last week with operator Agip Congo and its associates on the Marine VI and VII permits -- the latter includes the Kitina discovery -- just as it reached a similar accord with Elf Congo [.

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Morocco
PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Bidding in the pre-qualification round for the construction of Morocco's first power stations to be built with private capital was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Ghana
MORE STUDIES ON TANO

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has chosen Stone and Webster Engineering to prepare technical documents prior to putting together [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.1994

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Paul Toungui has been given the mines-enery and hydraulic resources [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.1994

Kenya
DOWN THE PIPELINE FROM IDA

The International Development Association, a subsidiary of the World Bank, has put seven new projects, totalling more than US$280 million, [...]

Subscribers only 19.02.1994

Djibouti
PORT REFORM

The managing committee of France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (aid and cooperation fund) agreed on February 10 to make [...]

Subscribers only 19.02.1994

Zambia
NEW NEGOTIATIONS WITH WORLD BANK

A new negotiating round will be held at the end [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.02.1994

Spotlight | Madagascar
FRESH WOES

Facilities at the Malagasy electricity company Jyrama and Solima's oil refinery at Toamasina figure among installations that suffered from cyclone Geralda that barrelled destructively across the island between Feb.2-4 two weeks after an earlier cyclone, Daisy, had struck Madagascar.

Subscribers only Energy 16.02.1994

Spotlight | Djibouti
THE CARROT AND THE STICK

The simultaneous arrival in Djibouti last week of a "high level" French political delegation and a "heavyweight" World Bank and International Monetary Fund mission is an eye-opener on the way that tasks are being distributed in the matter of the [.

Subscribers only 05.02.1994

Ivory Coast
FOXTROT ON STARTING BLOCKS

The financial package for the Foxtrot gas and electricity project has been virtually put together following a meeting of donor [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.1994

Tanzania
OIL PROJECT LAUNCHED

The initial phase in a series of tenders will open this month to select oil storage and pipeline equipment as [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1994

Ghana
TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

The combustion turbine and combined cycle power station that the Volta River Authority (VRA) will run at Aboadse near Takoradi [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.1993

Spotlight | Kenya
THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

If it is put into practice, the Kenyan Government's Policy Framework Paper (1994-1996), worked out with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, will mean a veritable revolution for the country's economy. In its final version (of November 10), [.

Subscribers only 04.12.1993

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Spotlight | Mozambique ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Cameroon, Chad DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Zimbabwe TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

Cameroon, Chad WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

Zimbabwe WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Cameroon, Chad THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Spotlight | West Africa LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Benin WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

Madagascar PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE DELAYED

Cameroon, Chad NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

Nigeria OSO II IN SERVICE

Tanzania YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

Madagascar PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

Chad GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

Spotlight | Africa ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

Senegal HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

Madagascar SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

Madagascar MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

Spotlight | Madagascar WORLD BANK SECRETS

Cameroon, Chad KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Spotlight | Canada UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Madagascar GLENCORE PROJECTS

Niger NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Ethiopia CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

Ethiopia TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

Spotlight | Africa FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Tanzania LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

Gabon OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Sao Tome and Principe FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

Equatorial Guinea SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

Uganda PROMISES, PROMISES

Nigeria PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Zambia BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

Ethiopia THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Mozambique WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

Mali TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

Congo PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

Spotlight | Mozambique GET THINGS MOVING

Kenya STEP BY STEP REFORMS

Nigeria LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Algeria WORLD BANK LOAN

Tanzania AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

Madagascar GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

Spotlight | Kenya KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

Congo PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

Nigeria REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

Ghana KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Spotlight | Madagascar ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Morocco IMPORTS MONOPOLY TO END

Spotlight | Cameroon BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

Mauritius BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Spotlight | Madagascar A WORLD BANK CATALOGUE

Spotlight | North Africa, West Europe EUROPE-MED ENERGY POOL

Congo GOVERNMENT SELLS ELF CONGO STAKE

Spotlight | Madagascar BID TO REVIVE EXPLORATION

Congo END OF THE OIL-STATE

Ghana ABOADSE LAST GOVERNMENT SCHEME

Tanzania TIPER'S BACK TO THE WALL

Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE ACCORD SEWN UP

Nigeria, West Africa REGIONAL GAS PACT

Kenya EIB FINANCING PIPELINE WORKS

Congo CALL FOR CORAF CLOSEDOWN

Eritrea PRIVATE CURE FOR ENERGY BRANCH

Zaire WORLD BANK'S GUARDED OPTIMISM

Chad WORLD BANK PREPARES LOAN FOR MAJOR PROJECT

West Africa WORLD BANK SET ON GAS PROJECT

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
THE REFORM CRUNCH IS COMING

Spotlight | Mozambique
ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Zimbabwe
TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

Cameroon, Chad
WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Cameroon, Chad
THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Benin
WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE DELAYED

Cameroon, Chad
NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

Tanzania
YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

Chad
GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

Spotlight | Africa
ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

Senegal
HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

Madagascar
SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

Madagascar
MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

Spotlight | Madagascar
WORLD BANK SECRETS

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Spotlight | Canada
UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Madagascar
GLENCORE PROJECTS

Niger
NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Ethiopia
CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

Ethiopia
TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

Spotlight | Africa
FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Tanzania
LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

Gabon
OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Sao Tome and Principe
FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

Equatorial Guinea
SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

Uganda
PROMISES, PROMISES

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Zambia
BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Mozambique
WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

Mali
TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

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GET THINGS MOVING

Kenya
STEP BY STEP REFORMS

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Algeria
WORLD BANK LOAN

Tanzania
AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

Madagascar
GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

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KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

Congo
PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

Nigeria
REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

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ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Morocco
IMPORTS MONOPOLY TO END

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BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

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A WORLD BANK CATALOGUE

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EUROPE-MED ENERGY POOL

Congo
GOVERNMENT SELLS ELF CONGO STAKE

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BID TO REVIVE EXPLORATION

Congo
END OF THE OIL-STATE

Ghana
ABOADSE LAST GOVERNMENT SCHEME

Tanzania
TIPER'S BACK TO THE WALL

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE ACCORD SEWN UP

Nigeria, West Africa
REGIONAL GAS PACT

Kenya
EIB FINANCING PIPELINE WORKS

Congo
CALL FOR CORAF CLOSEDOWN

Eritrea
PRIVATE CURE FOR ENERGY BRANCH

Zaire
WORLD BANK'S GUARDED OPTIMISM

Chad
WORLD BANK PREPARES LOAN FOR MAJOR PROJECT

West Africa
WORLD BANK SET ON GAS PROJECT

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1995 A KEY YEAR

Madagascar
REFINERY DITCHED IN IDA PROJECT

Kenya
HEADWAY ON IDA SCHEME

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FREE MARKET BLUES

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ENERGY WEEK

Tanzania
NEW START FOR SONGO-SONGO PROJECT

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EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK: NEW LENDING PUSH?