To read please click here Pour lire cliquer ici English version A Swiss study published in 2014 informs us that between 2011 and 2013, the top ten oil producing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, that is to say, in alphabetical order: Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Congo-Brazzaville, South Sudan and Chad, directly sold on the international market share of crude oil, through national or private oil companies, for an amount of 127 trillion CFA francs. Dear readers, this figure is staggering. Note that these sales figures are only a minority share of these countries oil revenues, because they do not include oil revenues from the tax imposed on oil companies or the royalties paid by these companies to African governments. In African oil-producing countries, governments or national oil companies (NOCs), receive a share of the gross oil production that they sell on the international markets. This oil corresponds to the s...
