Brazzaville, Congo News

I've created this thread just to park stuff in that is only tangentially-related to SOCO's interests and doesn't relate to any of the specific assets.

SOCO International plc is an international oil and gas exploration and production company.

The government has denied reports that it spent Sh100 million in hiring a private jet for Deputy President William Ruto to use on his four African nation tour.

Deputy President William Ruto said the instability in Somalia is piling pressure on Kenya's security situation.

It undertakes the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. The company has interests in Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Congo , the Republic of Congo , and Angola.

Mr Makhtar Diop, the World Bank's vice president for Africa, will arrive in Congo Brazzaville Monday, May 20, 2013 for a two-day working visit.

As part of its commitment towards the socio-economic development of the country, Tullow Oil plc in 2012 invested $669 million as part of its corporate social responsibilities.

An International Monetary Fund mission led by Mr. Mbuyamu Matungulu visited Brazzaville during April 29-May 13, 2013, to conduct discussions for the 2013 Article IV consultations.

Crop growers and traders will no longer have to struggle for the small domestic market following last week's launch cargo flights Congo Brazzaville.

In accordance with previously disclosed information, PA Resources has completed a reverse share split combined with a minor directed share issue for administrative reasons.

DRC troops raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, in the country's volatile east after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November, a UN report says.

In a poor city in a poor country on a poor continent, there is a group of people with a singular purpose: to look rich.

Today, on Friday 3 May 2013 President Zuma met with President Dennis Sassou N'Guesso, President of the Republic Congo , in Brazzaville.

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo - South African President Jacob Zuma met with regional leaders to discuss the fate of the Central African Republic, an impoverished country being run by rebels who seized the capital in March and proclaimed their leader president.

They are young. They are skilled. They are fed up with the dark narrative international media keep reporting on their region.

Issa recently pointed to an April 19, 2012, cable acknowledging a request from the embassy in Libya for more security but insisting that a preplanned drawdown would continue.

The governor of the province of Cabinda , Aldina Matilde Dalomba, and Prefect of the Department of Pointe-Noire , Alexandre Honor Paka, began on Thursday, in the port city of Pointe-Noire, talks on the resumption of regular regional meetings of the Sub-Committees of Defence and Border Security at the regional level, with the aim of ever closer ... (more)

Key targets: Unfortunately for this forest elephant in the Republic of Congo, its tusks make top-class shamisen bachi .

Hilaire Eyima and Claude Nzingoula are only detained for standing up for their rights.

At the end of March, an exploration well was spudded on the Carla South prospect in Block I in Equatorial Guinea.