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Cameroon
Sogea-Satom prepares major layoffs

In a circular sent to all staff on 27 October, Pierre-Etienne Latour, head of the Yaounde office of the French construction group Sogea-Satom, a subsidiary of Vinci, announced a 'mass redundancy plan'.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 03.11.2021

Mauritania
Just four firms remain in race for $600m SNIM contract

Only four of the eight companies shortlisted in the earthworks tender by Mauritania's state-owned mining company have submitted a bid for the contract that is vital for the country's economy.

Subscribers only Mining 21.09.2021

Madagascar
Vinci, Colas and KEC compete for World Bank-backed Jirama power projects

The national electricity company is preparing to choose contractors for two projects supported by the World Bank to extend Madagascar's power grid. French firms Vinci and Colas are hoping to beat off India's KEC.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 23.06.2021

Benin
China's Sinohydro sweeps the board on Djougou-Banikoara road contract

Chinese state-owned company Sinohydro won the entire contract for developing and asphalting the 210-km road between Djougou and Banikoara.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 22.06.2021

Ivory Coast
French economy minister helps Razel and Sogea prevail against Ebomaf in key road upgrade battle

Bruno Le Maire went to Ivory Coast last month to bang the drum for French business. His trip sped up the attribution of a vast contract to improve the road between Abidjan and San Pedro, the world's busiest cocoa port.

Subscribers only Business 09.06.2021

French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire stands with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and Prime Minister Patrick Achi during his visit to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on April 30, 2021.

Burkina Faso
Meridiam still optimistic over new Ouagadougou airport

After cooling its heels for the best part of a year, the French investment fund hopes Burkina Faso State will sign its concession contract for the future Ouagadougou-Donsin airport.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 16.03.2021

Mauritania
Vinci, Mota-Engil, Power China jockey for SNIM iron tender

Thirty-six firms, among them major European and Chinese players, have experssd interest in tenders by Mauritania's Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM) to carry out the earthworks for three new iron deposits.

Subscribers only Mining 24.02.2021

Central Africa
AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy

The African Development Bank has published a brutal assessment of way the Economic Community of Central African States, its partner on numerous infrastructure projects, is being run.

Free access Infrastructure, Business 19.01.2021

Cameroon
The government tries to revive Douala bypass project with private sector financing

After having long been put off, the Cameroonian authorities' plans to build a new road to decongest the country's business capital are to be put into the hands of a public-private partnership.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 10.12.2020

Kenya
Egypt's Wadi El Nile set to pip Chinese to Nairobi Railway City contract

The Egyptian construction firm Wadi El Nile is the favourite to win the tender call for the redesign of the station district of the Kenyan capital, estimated to be worth in the region of $255m.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 26.11.2020

Central African Republic, Congo
Sogea-Satom, Olam and Stoa see opportunity in Dolisie and Beloko dry port projects

The three companies are keen to take part in inland port projects in Congo and another in Central African Republic designed to ease congestion at Pointe-Noire.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 24.11.2020

Dry port projects in Congo and the Central African Republic.

Kenya
Egis wins Kenyatta over on Nairobi Railway City project

A group of French companies, including, among others engineering and infrastructure groups Egis, Sogea-Satom, and public fund Stoa, has been shortlisted by the Kenyan government to take part in the highly anticipated tender for the Nairobi Railway City urban development project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 16.10.2020

Ivory Coast
France's Sogea-Satom and Chinese rivals snap up road contracts

The subsidiary of the construction company Vinci, which was the only French firm to have responded to a tender call for several roadworks contracts in the greater Abidjan area, has more than held its own against rival Chinese giants who were also in the running.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 23.07.2020

Brazil, Congo, France, Turkey
Congo's ailing construction sector on international drip feed

Only the very few projects that are backed by foreign loans have survived the Covid-19 pandemic. Congo's worn-out government has simply stopped paying all other construction firms.

Subscribers only Business 09.06.2020

Mali
Sinohydro to build Kénié power plant for Eranove

The French electricity producer Eranove may not have yet closed the finances for its Kénié hydropower project but has already locked in the site constructor, Chinese dam engineering giant Sinohydro.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 06.05.2020

Burkina Faso
Cement giants vie for airport contracts

India's West African Cement, Morocco's Ciments de l'Afrique and Burkina Faso's Cimfaso are jostling for the contracts that Ouagadougou and the Meridiam investment fund, partnered with the airport of Marseille, are awarding to build Ougadougou-Donsin Airport, the country's biggest construction project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 14.04.2020

Niger
Niamey still sees itself as the home of uranium

Although Niger's mining opportunities are not rousing much interest from [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.03.2020

Spotlight | Guinea
Summa, WIETC and Sogea-Satom vie for Conakry Airport contract

Turkey's Summa, the Chinese company WIETC and France's Sogea-Satom are all bidding for the tender to expand Conakry Gbessia Airport.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 24.02.2020

Cameroon
A bridge too hard? Yaoundé challenges Vinci subsidiaries' multi-million claim

Sogea Satom and Soletanche Bachy, which built Douala's second bridge over the river Wouri, mounted arbitration proceedings against Cameroon, claiming it downplayed the project's technical challenges.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 20.01.2020

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Airports spark intense international rivalries

At a time when many African capitals are constructing new airports to ease congestion around urban centres, such projects are giving rise to intense rivalry between new and established powers on the continent, all against a backdrop of growing sub-regional [.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 29.05.2019

Extension of Diori-Hamani airport in Niamey, built and run by Turkish group Summa.

Ivory Coast
French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

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

Sogea-Satom

Cameroon
Sogea-Satom prepares major layoffs

Mauritania
Just four firms remain in race for $600m SNIM contract

Madagascar
Vinci, Colas and KEC compete for World Bank-backed Jirama power projects

Benin
China's Sinohydro sweeps the board on Djougou-Banikoara road contract

Ivory Coast
French economy minister helps Razel and Sogea prevail against Ebomaf in key road upgrade battle

Burkina Faso
Meridiam still optimistic over new Ouagadougou airport

Mauritania
Vinci, Mota-Engil, Power China jockey for SNIM iron tender

Central Africa
AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy

Cameroon
The government tries to revive Douala bypass project with private sector financing

Kenya
Egypt's Wadi El Nile set to pip Chinese to Nairobi Railway City contract

Central African Republic, Congo
Sogea-Satom, Olam and Stoa see opportunity in Dolisie and Beloko dry port projects

Kenya
Egis wins Kenyatta over on Nairobi Railway City project

Ivory Coast
France's Sogea-Satom and Chinese rivals snap up road contracts

Brazil, Congo, France, Turkey
Congo's ailing construction sector on international drip feed

Mali
Sinohydro to build Kénié power plant for Eranove

Burkina Faso
Cement giants vie for airport contracts

Niger
Niamey still sees itself as the home of uranium

Spotlight | Guinea
Summa, WIETC and Sogea-Satom vie for Conakry Airport contract

Cameroon
A bridge too hard? Yaoundé challenges Vinci subsidiaries' multi-million claim

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Airports spark intense international rivalries

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Sogea-Satom

Cameroon Sogea-Satom prepares major layoffs

Mauritania Just four firms remain in race for $600m SNIM contract

Madagascar Vinci, Colas and KEC compete for World Bank-backed Jirama power projects

Benin China's Sinohydro sweeps the board on Djougou-Banikoara road contract

Ivory Coast French economy minister helps Razel and Sogea prevail against Ebomaf in key road upgrade battle

Burkina Faso Meridiam still optimistic over new Ouagadougou airport

Mauritania Vinci, Mota-Engil, Power China jockey for SNIM iron tender

Central Africa AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy

Cameroon The government tries to revive Douala bypass project with private sector financing

Kenya Egypt's Wadi El Nile set to pip Chinese to Nairobi Railway City contract

Central African Republic, Congo Sogea-Satom, Olam and Stoa see opportunity in Dolisie and Beloko dry port projects

Kenya Egis wins Kenyatta over on Nairobi Railway City project

Ivory Coast France's Sogea-Satom and Chinese rivals snap up road contracts

Brazil, Congo, France, Turkey Congo's ailing construction sector on international drip feed

Mali Sinohydro to build Kénié power plant for Eranove

Burkina Faso Cement giants vie for airport contracts

Niger Niamey still sees itself as the home of uranium

Spotlight | Guinea Summa, WIETC and Sogea-Satom vie for Conakry Airport contract

Cameroon A bridge too hard? Yaoundé challenges Vinci subsidiaries' multi-million claim

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa Airports spark intense international rivalries

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Ivory Coast
French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

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

Cameroon
Sogea-Satom prepares major layoffs

Mauritania
Just four firms remain in race for $600m SNIM contract

Madagascar
Vinci, Colas and KEC compete for World Bank-backed Jirama power projects

Benin
China's Sinohydro sweeps the board on Djougou-Banikoara road contract

Ivory Coast
French economy minister helps Razel and Sogea prevail against Ebomaf in key road upgrade battle

Burkina Faso
Meridiam still optimistic over new Ouagadougou airport

Mauritania
Vinci, Mota-Engil, Power China jockey for SNIM iron tender

Central Africa
AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy

Cameroon
The government tries to revive Douala bypass project with private sector financing

Kenya
Egypt's Wadi El Nile set to pip Chinese to Nairobi Railway City contract

Central African Republic, Congo
Sogea-Satom, Olam and Stoa see opportunity in Dolisie and Beloko dry port projects

Kenya
Egis wins Kenyatta over on Nairobi Railway City project

Ivory Coast
France's Sogea-Satom and Chinese rivals snap up road contracts

Brazil, Congo, France, Turkey
Congo's ailing construction sector on international drip feed

Mali
Sinohydro to build Kénié power plant for Eranove

Burkina Faso
Cement giants vie for airport contracts

Niger
Niamey still sees itself as the home of uranium

Spotlight | Guinea
Summa, WIETC and Sogea-Satom vie for Conakry Airport contract

Cameroon
A bridge too hard? Yaoundé challenges Vinci subsidiaries' multi-million claim

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Airports spark intense international rivalries