Vol 7 (AAC) No 2 | ZAMBIAINDIA KCM on the back foot 15th November 2013 With elections just two years ahead, the threat of job cuts unnerves the Lusaka government Konkola Copper Mines, a subsidiary of Anil Agarwal's London-listed Vedanta Resources and Zambia’s second-largest copper producer, is having a rocky ride under the Patriotic Front government. In opposition,...
Vol 7 (AAC) No 1 | ZAMBIAINDIA KCM on the back foot 18th November 2013 With elections just two years ahead, the threat of job cuts unnerves the Lusaka government Konkola Copper Mines, a subsidiary of Anil Agarwal's London-listed Vedanta Resources and Zambia’s second-largest copper producer, is having a rocky ride under the Patriotic Front government. In opposition,...
Vol 7 (AAC) No 1 | ZIMBABWEINDIA Essar on hold 4th November 2013 Negotiations drag on but the relaunch of ZISCO will take place before year's end, according to the Commerce and Industry Minister
Vol 7 (AAC) No 1 | INDIA Sunil Bharti Mittal 4th November 2013 Chairman, Bharti Airtel, India Beijing and New Delhi may profess that they are not in competition in Africa, but businessman Sunil Mittal made it clear in October that he regards Chinese companies...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 12 | MAURITIUSINDIA Closing tax loopholes 1st October 2013 Mauritius will host another round of talks to discuss amending a controversial tax treaty, as the finance sector shifts its focus to Africa Mauritius has invited Indian officials to a new round of discussions, in early October, on the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) signed by the two countries in 1982....
Vol 6 (AAC) No 11 | ETHIOPIAINDIA Grab first, drop later 3rd September 2013 Addis Ababa reconsiders policies after India-backed agribusiness projects fail to deliver Ethiopia is rethinking its land policies after the failure by India’s large agribusiness ventures, which have also drawn much criticism from non-governmental organisations, to deliver results.
Vol 6 (AAC) No 11 | INDIA Rahul Dhir 29th August 2013 CEO, Delonex Energy, Britain Delonex Energy was launched by Rahul Dhir in 2012. The former boss of oil company Cairn India is now working with Warburg Pincus, a large United States-based private...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | INDIA Subhanu Saxena 25th July 2013 Chief Executive Officer, Cipla, India Africa is a major market for the pharmaceuticals industry, especially with regard to antiretroviral and antimalarial medicines, and India’s Cipla aims to grab a big share of the...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINAINDIA Help for the East 2nd July 2013 With European security support to be reduced in 2015, Kinshasa is counting on China and India to help the UN mission and Congolese troops India and China are offering to help President Joseph Kabila’s government secure its eastern borders following a series of bilateral meetings in June in Kinshasa. These offers follow...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 | INDIA R. V. Kanoria 2nd July 2013 Former President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Businessman R. V. Kanoria, the former President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, led a 21-member delegation to Morocco on 27-31 May, to attend...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 | MALIINDIA Not in our back yard 31st May 2013 While Mali’s government is preoccupied with retaking the northern region occupied by Islamists and Tuareg rebels, Indian firm Sahara Mining is facing challenges of its own in Tienfala,...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | GABONINDIASINGAPORE Middleman at the gate 2nd May 2013 On 26 April at the Libreville headquarters of Oil India Limited, Paul Maurice Tomo lay shirtless on the ground in front of a painted sheet that read:...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | INDIA Salman Khurshid 2nd May 2013 External Affairs Minister, India Salman Khurshid, Minister of External Affairs, was in Uganda on 17-18 April, on his first official visit to Africa. Ahead of the third India-Africa summit due in...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 5 | INDIA Prasun Kumar Mukherjee 7th March 2013 Managing Director, Sesa Goa, India Prasun Kumar Mukherjee, Managing Director of Sesa Goa, India’s largest private iron-ore exporter, has announced that his firm will invest US$2.6 billion in the development of three Liberian...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 | INDIAAFRICA Big projects and bottlenecks 15th January 2013 Natural resources are still the main draw for investors but new markets for India’s food, services and consumer goods beckon the big companies The Indian National Congress and Manmohan Singh will try to hang on until general elections are called, in mid-2014 at the latest. With corruption fuelling the public’s anger,...