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Antoine Rolland

Africa Intelligence journalist Antoine Rolland reports on countries in Central Africa.

Spotlight | Gabon
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema uses Omar Bongo playbook in presidential election campaign

Gabonese junta leader Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema looks set for a landslide victory in next month's presidential poll. To achieve this, he will rely mainly on the Gabonese Democratic Party and adopt some of the strategies used by former president Omar Bongo.

Subscribers only Politics 25.03.2025

Gabonese transitional president Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema in Beijing, September 2024.

Congo
Old Congolese debts catch up with Egis

The French engineering company is being sued by its former sales representative in Congo, Cores, for several million euros in unpaid commission. At the heart of the dispute is a securitised €25m bond issued by the Congolese state.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 07.02.2025

Spotlight | Gabon
Behind Genevan trader Augusta's return to Libreville

The Swiss trading company Augusta Energy is set to regain the contract to distil SOGARA's atmospheric residue, which it lost in 2020 under the previous Gabonese administration. Under the new deal, the trader has agreed to drop legal proceedings in exchange for $25m in compensation.

Subscribers only Energy 24.01.2025

The entrance of an oil refinery of Gabonese Refining Company SOGARA in Port-Gentil, Gabon, January 2017.

Spotlight | Gabon
SEEG crisis rattles Oligui Nguema system

The Gabonese power and water supplier's months of crippling debt and tensions forced CEO Joël Lehman Sandoungout out the door last month as details emerge about a parallel sales scheme that could involve French-Andorra citizen Pierre Duro, an adviser to the president.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics 04.09.2024

Gabonese President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, 25 July 2024 in Paris.

In Focus | Africa
The sensational rise and spectacular fall of Pefaco casino and hotels

Luxury hotels, slot machines, French-African political alliances... This was the magical mix that brought success to the Pefaco group, now in receivership. Its bosses are doing all they can to avoid the inevitable, while several courts and creditors are trying to track down their assets.

Subscribers only Business 01.07.2024

Spotlight | Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Gabon
French international broadcaster TV5 Monde on controversial quest for African financing

TV5 Monde boss Yves Bigot has been touring French-speaking Africa in a bid to get seven countries to take a stake in the French-language international broadcaster. The initiative, backed by France's foreign ministry, has sparked concern among staff who fear its editorial independence will suffer.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy 15.04.2024

TV5 Monde CEO Yves Bigot on 1 December 2021.

Gabon
Jacques-Denis Tsanga set to overhaul Gabon's masonic allegiances abroad

In his first steps as Grand Master of the Grande Loge du Gabon, Jacques-Denis Tsanga appears to be prioritising relations with Congolese and French masonic lodges and pulling away from their Beninese counterpart.

Subscribers only Politics 21.02.2024

Spotlight | Africa
Corsair boss' African odyssey to try to get airline back on track

Pascal de Izaguirre sought to forge personal relationships with a handful of African heads of state last year to try to get his airline out of its financial difficulties. He relied in particular on the help of French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Subscribers only Business 30.01.2024

Corsair airline CEO Pascal de Izaguirre.

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Obiang tussles with Oligui Nguema over relocation of ECCAS HQ

The move to Malabo, initially scheduled for December and January, is causing a stir within the sub-regional body. The president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema is keen to host the bloc's headquarters, much to the displeasure of his transitional counterpart in Gabon, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 13.12.2023

Transitional President of Gabon General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, at COP28 in Dubai on 1 December 2023.

In Focus | Chad
The 1001 lives of Abakar Manany

An intriguing fixture of the Chadian political landscape for over two decades, businessman Abakar Manany was one of Idriss Déby's closest advisers, and then one of his fiercest opponents. Living between Dubai, Paris and Washington, he made a comeback with Mahamat Idriss Déby, before being abruptly dismissed in July.

Subscribers only Politics, Business 06.11.2023

Abakar Manany, the millionaire aviator at the heart of Chadian power.

Cameroon
Probe into visa trafficking at French consulate runs out of steam

A Cameroonian investigation, which received heavy media coverage after the death of a French diplomat in August, is struggling to make progress. The French foreign ministry began its own inquiry in July.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 30.10.2023

Spotlight | Gabon
Noureddin Bongo arrest puts Western consultants out of a job

The arrest on 30 August of the son of ousted president Ali Bongo has left a whole raft of British, US and French consultants at a loose end. Some had been working on his father's re-election campaign, while others had already been preparing for the first months of a new term.

Free access Politics, Business 13.10.2023

Noureddin Bongo Valentin in Libreville on 1 December 2019.

Inner circles | Gabon
Gabon coup: Gen Oligui Nguema brings back the old guard

The freshly inaugurated interim head of state has called in political heavyweights who were close to his predecessors Omar and Ali Bongo.

Subscribers only Politics 08.09.2023

The head of the junta, General Brice Oligui Nguema, in Libreville, Gabon, on 4 September 2023.

Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger
Chad all but deprived of trade routes after Niger coup

Imports bound for Chad have been blocked in Benin since Niger's borders were shut after the recent coup there. This means Chad has lost a fourth major trade route - after conflict in Libya and in Sudan stopped the flow of goods - and it is now planning to boost its Cameroonian channel.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 25.08.2023

Gabon
Gabonese Fund for Strategic Investments locks horns with Monaco Resources

The decision by Handling Partner Gabon's board to dismiss its French CEO, Olivier Berni, on 4 May, gives the Gabonese Fund for Strategic Investments greater control of the airfreight company. His departure edges out Monaco Resources Group, which had appointed Berni in 2020.

Subscribers only Finance 05.06.2023

In Focus | Central African Republic
Zhao Baomei, Central African Republic's Chinese mining queen

Zhao Baomei has established herself as a key figure in the Central African Republic's mining sector. The mysterious and formidable Chinese businesswoman owes her success to her networks and her sharp business practices.

Subscribers only Mining 05.06.2023

Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Brigitte Touadéra, Zhao Baomei.

Spotlight | Sao Tome and Principe
PM Patrice Trovoada pulls out all the stops to attract foreign investment

The newly re-elected Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada, one of the richest men in Sao Tome and Principe, is pulling out all the stops to attract investors to his archipelago nation. He is seeking to revamp international partnerships, in particular with Angola.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 18.04.2023

The prime minister of Sao Tome and Principe, Patrice Trovoada.

Central African Republic
TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

The French oil major appears to have found a way out of the Central African Republic at last. The country's largest company is selling its assets to Tamoil, a Libyan company that is based in Europe.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders, Business 07.04.2023

Spotlight | Central African Republic, South Africa
Gupta brothers seek asylum in central Africa

Currently living in exile in Dubai and under threat of being extradited to South Africa, where they are wanted on charges of embezzlement, the Guptas are seeking a safe haven in the centre of the continent.

Subscribers only Business 31.03.2023

Spotlight | Central Africa
Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

The main foreign investors in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa are alarmed by the regional body's foreign exchange regulations, considering them to be too tough. But despite intense lobbying, a relaxation of the rules looks unlikely, the central bank having set itself ambitious objectives for foreign currency reserves.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Commodity traders 17.03.2023

Abbas Mahamat Tolli, governor of the Bank of Central African States, in Paris in 2018.

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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

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Spotlight | Gabon
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema uses Omar Bongo playbook in presidential election campaign

Congo
Old Congolese debts catch up with Egis

Spotlight | Gabon
Behind Genevan trader Augusta's return to Libreville

Spotlight | Gabon
SEEG crisis rattles Oligui Nguema system

In Focus | Africa
The sensational rise and spectacular fall of Pefaco casino and hotels

Spotlight | Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Gabon
French international broadcaster TV5 Monde on controversial quest for African financing

Gabon
Jacques-Denis Tsanga set to overhaul Gabon's masonic allegiances abroad

Spotlight | Africa
Corsair boss' African odyssey to try to get airline back on track

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Obiang tussles with Oligui Nguema over relocation of ECCAS HQ

In Focus | Chad
The 1001 lives of Abakar Manany

Cameroon
Probe into visa trafficking at French consulate runs out of steam

Spotlight | Gabon
Noureddin Bongo arrest puts Western consultants out of a job

Inner circles | Gabon
Gabon coup: Gen Oligui Nguema brings back the old guard

Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger
Chad all but deprived of trade routes after Niger coup

Gabon
Gabonese Fund for Strategic Investments locks horns with Monaco Resources

In Focus | Central African Republic
Zhao Baomei, Central African Republic's Chinese mining queen

Spotlight | Sao Tome and Principe
PM Patrice Trovoada pulls out all the stops to attract foreign investment

Central African Republic
TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

Spotlight | Central African Republic, South Africa
Gupta brothers seek asylum in central Africa

Spotlight | Central Africa
Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

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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

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

Makhzen Inc. or the ever more prosperous business empire of Mohammed VI's entourage

Antoine Rolland

Spotlight | Gabon Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema uses Omar Bongo playbook in presidential election campaign

Congo Old Congolese debts catch up with Egis

Spotlight | Gabon Behind Genevan trader Augusta's return to Libreville

Spotlight | Gabon SEEG crisis rattles Oligui Nguema system

In Focus | Africa The sensational rise and spectacular fall of Pefaco casino and hotels

Spotlight | Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Gabon French international broadcaster TV5 Monde on controversial quest for African financing

Gabon Jacques-Denis Tsanga set to overhaul Gabon's masonic allegiances abroad

Spotlight | Africa Corsair boss' African odyssey to try to get airline back on track

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea, Gabon Obiang tussles with Oligui Nguema over relocation of ECCAS HQ

In Focus | Chad The 1001 lives of Abakar Manany

Cameroon Probe into visa trafficking at French consulate runs out of steam

Spotlight | Gabon Noureddin Bongo arrest puts Western consultants out of a job

Inner circles | Gabon Gabon coup: Gen Oligui Nguema brings back the old guard

Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger Chad all but deprived of trade routes after Niger coup

Gabon Gabonese Fund for Strategic Investments locks horns with Monaco Resources

In Focus | Central African Republic Zhao Baomei, Central African Republic's Chinese mining queen

Spotlight | Sao Tome and Principe PM Patrice Trovoada pulls out all the stops to attract foreign investment

Central African Republic TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

Spotlight | Central African Republic, South Africa Gupta brothers seek asylum in central Africa

Spotlight | Central Africa Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

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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

Spotlight | Gabon
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema uses Omar Bongo playbook in presidential election campaign

Congo
Old Congolese debts catch up with Egis

Spotlight | Gabon
Behind Genevan trader Augusta's return to Libreville

Spotlight | Gabon
SEEG crisis rattles Oligui Nguema system

In Focus | Africa
The sensational rise and spectacular fall of Pefaco casino and hotels

Spotlight | Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Gabon
French international broadcaster TV5 Monde on controversial quest for African financing

Gabon
Jacques-Denis Tsanga set to overhaul Gabon's masonic allegiances abroad

Spotlight | Africa
Corsair boss' African odyssey to try to get airline back on track

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Obiang tussles with Oligui Nguema over relocation of ECCAS HQ

In Focus | Chad
The 1001 lives of Abakar Manany

Cameroon
Probe into visa trafficking at French consulate runs out of steam

Spotlight | Gabon
Noureddin Bongo arrest puts Western consultants out of a job

Inner circles | Gabon
Gabon coup: Gen Oligui Nguema brings back the old guard

Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger
Chad all but deprived of trade routes after Niger coup

Gabon
Gabonese Fund for Strategic Investments locks horns with Monaco Resources

In Focus | Central African Republic
Zhao Baomei, Central African Republic's Chinese mining queen

Spotlight | Sao Tome and Principe
PM Patrice Trovoada pulls out all the stops to attract foreign investment

Central African Republic
TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

Spotlight | Central African Republic, South Africa
Gupta brothers seek asylum in central Africa

Spotlight | Central Africa
Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules