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West Africa

Ghana
Output drops on Jubilee

Tullow Oil has succeeded in getting the Ghanaian authorities to waiver its ban on flaring gas on the Jubilee field. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.2014

Nigeria
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp

Publication of the 2014 issue of the oil industry’s bible, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.2014

Spotlight | Guinea
Who’ll take over BHP Billiton’s bauxite blocks?

A big question mark hangs over who will succeed BHP Billiton on the bauxite blocks the giant abandoned in 2012 (AMI 285). Africa Mining Intelligence has learned the identities of companies pre-qualified to bid for the properties. One gravitates in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Ivory Coast
Belarus-owned firm takes on Gazprombank

Sansara, a firm founded by discreet Ivorian businessman Yacouba Diarrassouba and controlled by Belarus interests, is crossing swords with the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Mauritania
Charter Pacific in Bumi Resources’ footsteps

Owning iron ore and gold exploration projects up to now, the Australian junior Charter Pacific has landed the 2138 C1 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Sierra Leone
Golden Saint one step closer to diamonds

Listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) since last July, Golden Saint Resources finally held its first annual general assembly [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Guinea
Semafo: Standoff between Curtis & Yansane

Mines minister Kerfalla Yansane and the secretary-general at the mines ministry, Guillaume Curtis, nephew of president Alpha Conde are engaged [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Mali
Diallo dilutes stake to save Wassoul’Or

The first Mali national to throw himself into industrial-scale gold mining in the country in 2012, Aliou Boubacar Diallo is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Ivory Coast
Daniel Yai

Although Daniel Yai retired as managing director of Societe des Mines d'Ity (SMI), he isn't about to go out to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Guinea
Andrew Groves

The chief executive officer of Sable Mining Africa, Andrew Groves, is engaged in crucial talks with ArcelorMittal on the question [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Guinea
A new EITI rep?

If confirmed, the dismissal of Guillaume Curtis, nephew of president [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Burkina Faso
Yaramoko mine to start up at year’s end

Roxgold Inc is aiming to complete construction of its Yaramoko [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Burkina Faso
Ressources Komet options Guiro gold mine

As AMI anticipated in April (AMI 319), the Canadian mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Guinea
Bollore jumps into Simandou arena

According to our sources, a preliminary plan that RioTinto/Simfer has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Burkina Faso, Guinea
Ouagadougou

Masami Iijima, boss of the Japanese industrial giant Mitsui, is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou

Nikolai Zelenski, chief executive officer of Nordgold, the former subsidiary [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Ivory Coast
Ouattara extends a hand to FPI

With 16 months to go before Ivory Coast's next presidential ballot in 2015, Alassane Ouattara, who plans to stand for [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.06.2014

Benin
Boni Yayi touts his white elephants

A workshop scheduled for Paris in mid-June is aimed at drumming up finance for several big projects. The problem, however, is that most are widely known in Benin as white elephants. Donors can't say they were not warned.

Subscribers only Politics 11.06.2014

Togo
Kpatcha casts shadow over ECOWAS

In a surprising decision ECOWAS' court of justice declared itself incompetent to rule in the case pitting businessman Bassam El Najjar against Togo's government.

Subscribers only Politics 11.06.2014

Ivory Coast
PAA woos Beijing

The managing director of Port Autonome d'Abidjan (PAA), Hien Sie, [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.06.2014

Ivory Coast
Gazprombank covets Ivoirian copper

The mining concern Gazprombank Ivory Coast Minerals, an affiliate of [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.06.2014

Ivory Coast
Koohinoor International celebrates in Abidjan

Chief executive of the firm Koohinoor International, Indian businessman Manoj [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.06.2014

Benin
Air France grounded in Cotonou

The 300-odd passengers aboard Air France's flight AF805 from Cotonou [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.06.2014

Ivory Coast
Yildirim Group's patience tested in Ivory Coast

Awarded a waterway contract to operate on the Ebrie lagoon [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.06.2014

Benin
IDELPHONSE AFFOGBOLO (Africa Capital)

Benin-born businessman Idelphonse Affogbolo, one of the founders of the [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.06.2014

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