🌐Weekly News Digest [ January 26 – February 1 ]
That was a week of bribery charges and expansion of extraction activities across the whole continent.
💡Here are the key highlights:
🇩🇿 Algeria
— Algeria’s minister for hydrocarbons visits Chad and Niger
🇨🇬 Congo
— Two Norwegians and an oil company charged with bribing Congo’s president
🇨🇩 DR Congo
— The leader of the AFC/M23 critisizes the US-DRC strategic agreement on access to minerals
— More than 200 killed in a collapse at the AFC/M23-controlled Rubaya coltan mines in eastern DRC
🇱🇷 Liberia
— Liberia ratified an agreement with the Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, extending the company’s rights to the Tokadeh iron deposit until 2075
🇲🇱 Mali
— China’s largest mining company, Zijin buys Canadian company Allied Gold
🇲🇬 Madagascar
— Madagascar has lifted its 2010 moratorium on new mining permits, except for gold
🇲🇿 Mozambique
— TotalEnergies officially resume the Mozambique LNG project
🇳🇬 Nigeria
— Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu grants tax incentives to speed up Shell’s Bonga South West oil project
— TotalEnergies sells its 10% stake in a Nigerian oil asset to a brand new local firm
— A bribery trial of a former Nigerian minister of petroleum opens in London
🇸🇩 Sudan
— Sudan seeks closer alignment with Saudi Arabia, including gold refinement
🇿🇲 Zambia
— Zambia’s army carries out a full-fledged military operation around a gold deposit in the northwest of the country
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
— Illegal miners blamed for water supply disruptions in Zimbabwe's second largest city
— Zimbabwe starts early implementation of increased royalties on gold mining
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