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West Africa

Nigeria
The matrimonial (and oil) strategy of Oriental's boss

Nigerian mogul is forging advantageous alliances with leading families in the north which are much in vogue at present.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Ivory Coast
Worldwide Energy dictated its conditions to Petroci

According to our sources, the Emirati trader Worldwide Energy will lift two cargoes containing a total of 1.4 million barrels [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Nigeria
NNPC will have to wait for its billions in Indian investment

Leading an impressive, 13-member delegation to New Delhi in early [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2016

Spotlight | Burkina Faso
Dissa’s uphill fight to win back the mining community’s heart

In a meeting to be held in a posh Paris hotel on Dec. 7-8 with Burkina Faso’s donors, mines minister Alpha Oumar Dissa won’t be able to sidestep questions that worry investors about the future of his country’s mining sector. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Nigeria
Construction giant PW Group makes push into mines

A subcontractor that wins a lot of government work in Nigeria, the Irish-Nigerian firm PW, is getting in early on the Agbaja iron project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 06.12.2016

Mali
Funding remains elusive for Great Quest phosphate project

Great Quest Fertilizer has been seeking $20 million to get its fertilizer project off the ground at Tilemsi.

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Guinea
SMB sets to work on relinquished AMR area

For some days now Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Ivory Coast
Teranga plants flag on Mimran's territory

In early November, the Canadian explorer Teranga Gold Corp registered [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Guinea
SMB & Chinese undertake sweeping survey for new resources

In late November the Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Mauritania
Mohamed Ould Abdel Vetah seeks Saudi investments

On a trip to Jeddah in mid-November, Mauritania's oil, energy [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Guinea
Former minister Soumah starts his own company

Mines and geology minister in Guinea between 2002-2005 under president [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Guinea
India's Dynamic Mining asked to try again

In late November, Guinea’s mines and geology minister, Abdoulaye Magassouba, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Burkina Faso
Roxgold soon connected to power grid

By the end of this year the Yaramoko gold mine [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Liberia
Aureus changes name after its acquisition by Turkey’s MNG

The shareholders of the Canadian explorer Aureus Mining Inc, which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Ivory Coast
De Montessus stayed away to work on his budget

Expected in London on Nov. 29 to take the floor [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Burkina Faso
Kabore seeks new lease of life in Paris

Weakened by social unrest and insecurity, the head of state is banking on an upcoming donors’ conference to finally get his term in office up and running.

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Ivory Coast
Niamien N’Goran,Henri Konan Bedie’s right- hand man, lays down the law in the PDCI

Niamien N’Goran, the inspector general and nephew of Henri Konan Bedie, will stand for election in the central town of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2016

Benin
Romuald Wadagni Patrice Talon’s financial advisor

Before his April appointment as economy minister, Romuald Wadagni, 40, spent several years working as Patrice Talon’s financial advisor from [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2016

Ivory Coast
La Poste restructures itself

In the coming weeks, La Poste de Cote d’Ivoire is [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Ivory Coast
Air Côte d’Ivoire will soon fly to Bangui

The early November visit to Ivory Coast by Central African [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

West Africa
BCEAO puts pressure on international banks

The BCEAO has asked foreign banks operating within the West [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Ivory Coast
Thanry pays up

Louis Merkli, CEO of industrial timber firm Societe Industrielle Thanry [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
Faso Construction out of Treasury contract

Faso Construction, founded by Burkinabe businessman Mohammed Abdullai, had to [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Niger
More arm-wrestling at Soraz

Emboldened since receiving autorisation from the state of Niger to [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Ivory Coast
Isaac Gnamba’s gift to Lebanese bosses

The CEO of the Poste de Cote d’Ivoire, Isaac Gnamba, [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

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