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West Africa

Ghana
Saudi firm rides to Tema's rescue

A firm named PetroSaudi Energy & Trading (UK) could shortly set up a joint venture with Ghana to provide financial [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Nigeria
Outsized aims for Elumelu & Heirs Holdings

The firm Heirs Holdings is to shortly get into the oil exploration business or even into supplying gasoline to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Nigeria
General Electric bolsters supplier's finances

General Electric doesn’t skimp when it comes to ensuring the viability of a future plant to manufacture turbines and oil gear.

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Gambia
Camac takes heart from good news from Senegal

Camac Energy Gambia is keen on finding out as soon [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Nigeria
Musical chairs game at Crestar

There’s been a change at the top at James Bay [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Nigeria
Nigeria LNG wants to slash bill

Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) is examining the possibility of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Mauritania, Senegal
Work to start on power interconnection

Under discussion since 2012 when the Plan Senegal Emergent (PSE) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Nigeria
Funding put together for Azura-Edo

The International Finance Corp (IFC), a unit of the World [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Burkina Faso
Endeavour Mining tests waters for Hounde

Will the new mining authorities in Burkina Faso be in a position to quickly award a mining license for the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Guinea
Government hits out at China International Fund

Mines minister Kerfalla Yansane sent a warning by letter last month to the management of Guinea Development Corp (GDC), a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Niger
Govind Friedland wants a license in four months

The chairman and founder of GoviEx Uranium is pinning his hopes on quickly acquiring a mining license for his Madaouela [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Guinea
Boffa's bauxite: Diallo calls for delay

In a letter sent on Nov. 29, the deputy general managing of Huafei Mining Group, Mamadi Alex Diallo, asked the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Senegal
Kumba Resources still owed $28 million

Asked in Parliament to explain a number of issues involving [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Guinea
Mubadala confirms its bauxite order

According to our sources in Conakry, Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Development [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Burkina Faso
Acacia takes an option on South Hounde

In return for conducting a $14 million reconnaissance work program [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Ghana
Pinecrest sets up shop

Pinecrest Resources, a Canadian firm chaired by Ryan King, has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Liberia
Aureus to produce gold in 2015's first quarter

Despite the Ebola crisis, Aureus Mining Inc is pushing ahead [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Ivory Coast
Diamond cooperatives thrive in Ivory Coast

Since the recent and effective lifting of the embargo on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Guinea
Conde not convinced of Boffa's general interest status

President Alpha Conde has failed to sign a general interest [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Burkina Faso
Boubacar Ba's busy social agenda

In addition to revising the mining code, labour legislation and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Ivory Coast
Soccer chief Diallo sulking

Augustin Sidy Diallo, head of the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF), received a dressing down from the Ivorian president’s office last [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.12.2014

Burkina Faso
Lobbying firm's contract with Compaore

The US lobbying firm CD Global Strategies Group, headed by [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.12.2014

Ivory Coast
Colas renovates president’s office

After winning the contract to renovate and extend Abidjan’s Boulevard [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.12.2014

Togo
Ayi Kanligan Ajavon and Raoul Symenouh lead bosses’ organisation

A Togo court has ruled that businessmen Ayi Kanligan Ajavon [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.12.2014

Ivory Coast
Mariam Toure works with business community

Mariam Gnoumafi Toure, the founder of the PR agency First [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.12.2014

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