Features | - Part 224

Nigeria Plans 2023 Sugar Self-Sufficiency Even as Woes Mount

LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest sugar importer, remains on target to become self-sufficient in the sweetener in seven years even as foreign-exchange shortages and insurgents pose a risk to the goal, an industry body said. Refiners Dangote Sugar Refinery Ltd., BUA Refinery Ltd. and Golden Sugar Co., which rely on raw-sugar imports from Brazil, joined a government program in 2013 seeking to meet annual demand of about 1.5 million metric tons within a decade. While…

Marriott to Nearly Double Workforce in Mideast, Africa

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: Marriott International Inc., which became the world’s largest hotel operator with its $14 billion purchase of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., plans to almost double its workforce in the Middle East and Africa over the next three years. The company expects to add 30,000 more people to its regional workforce of 41,000 as new properties are opened, Marriott’s regional president Alex Kyriakidis said on Sunday. About 6,000 of the new jobs…

Gecamines Says Lundin Withdrawal From Congo Would Be Problematic

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CONGO, Capital Markets in Africa: Gecamines, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-owned miner, warned that any decision by Lundin Mining Corp. to withdraw from the Tenke Fungurume copper mine could scupper Freeport McMoRan Inc.’s proposed sale of its stake in the project. By exiting at the same time as Freeport and transferring full ownership of the project to new parties without securing Gecamines’ approval, Lundin and Freeport would further violate the state-owned miner’s rights, Chairman Albert…

Tunisia reaches deal with Petrofac protesters, in company talks

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TUNIS, Capital Markets in Africa: Tunisia has reached a deal with protesters who have disrupted gas production by Petrofac for months, the government said on Friday, part of an effort to stop the British energy firm closing its business. Petrofac, which supplies 13 percent of Tunisia’s gas through the Chergui venture in the south, officially informed the government this week that it had started shutting down its local gas operations. Since January Petrofac has had…

Nigerian Lawmakers to Probe Claim $17 Billion of Oil Stolen

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: Nigeria’s lower house of parliament ordered an investigation into whether $17 billion of fuel exports were stolen. Most of the oil and liquefied natural gas ended up in the U.S. and some went to China and Norway between 2011 and 2014, Johnson Agbonayinma, a lawmaker, told the House of Representatives in the capital, Abuja, on Thursday. The missing products include about 58 million barrels of oil and 727,000 metric tons…

Libyan oil port takeover gives edge to eastern commander

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TRIPOLI, Capital Markets in Africa: Less than a fortnight after forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar swept into four of Libya’s oil ports, tankers are loading, production has jumped, and momentum has shifted firmly in the divisive former general’s favour. For Haftar’s opponents, and for Western powers, the move on the ports was alarming. Haftar and his backers in eastern Libya have been in a stand-off for months with a unity government in Tripoli, blocking any…

Former OPEC President Optimistic There Will Be Deal in Algiers

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ALGIERS, Capital Markets in Africa: Chakib Khelil, the former Algerian energy minister who steered OPEC the last time it decided to cut supply, said he’s confident the group will reach an accord next week as low oil prices force members to act. With most of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries now producing near full capacity, it should be straightforward to promise no further increases, said Khelil, who was the group’s president in 2008 when it agreed…

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