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Nigeria
Three winners in Chevron sell-off

Still stalled by an injunction by Brittania U, the sale of Chevron's stakes has been completed with three companies rather than just one.

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

Ivory Coast
PetroCI

During a cabinet meeting on Jan. 22, Ivory Coast president [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

Ivory Coast
CIE

New projects are piling up to provide the Ivory Coast [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

Sierra Leone
Stellar could soon have diamonds

Stellar Diamonds should complete its definitive feasibility study in the coming months on the Tongo kimberlite project (1.1 million carats) [...]

Free access Mining 21.01.2014

Senegal
Grande Côte on the final stretch

Mineral Deposits (MDL, Australia) has sold its stake in the Senegalese gold mining company Teranga Gold Corp just as it [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Brou backtracks on SODEMI reform

Ivory Coast’s mining and industry minister Jean Claude Brou has suspended the plan to reform Sodemi, the national company to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Mali
IMF to help Bamako audit mining companies

In order to optimise its mining revenue, Bamako asked for help from the IMF fiduciary thematic fund in managing its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Burkina Faso
Tambao at the environmental stage

The Frank Timis group company Pan African Burkina, that operates [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Burkina Faso
A new code by June

Speaking in Paris at the invitation of the Ubifrance agency [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Mauritania
New start for Tamagot iron project

After a protracted legal battle between the Indonesian-controlled Bumi Resources [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Burkina Faso
Golden Rim finance Balogo

The Australian mining company Golden Rim Resources has just completed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Burkina Faso
Essakane scales back operation

A first warning shot has sounded in Burkina Faso's gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou

Salif Lamoussa Kabore, the Burkinabe minister for mines and energy, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Togo
Lomé

Brigitte Bocoum, the head of the World Bank’s mining department, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Abidjan

Ansu Baija, the managing director of the Indian family mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Benin
Talon stays on message in Paris

Exiled Beninese businessman Patrice Talon's busy networking in Paris over the Christmas holidays seriously irked Thomas Boni Yayi, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014

Mali
Report slams widespread corruption

At a time when international donors are trying to obtain better results from development aid to Africa, a new report from Mali's auditor general sheds some useful light.

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Jiangsu Provincial Construction picked by Diby Koffi

Ivory Coast's foreign minister Charles Diby Koffi, who served as [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Ivoire Hydro Energy snags Singrobo-Ahouaty project

Adama Toungara, Ivory Coast's oil and energy minister, has awarded [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.01.2014

Africa, France
Marck group targets African Union

The idea put forward by François Hollande at the French [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.01.2014

Senegal
SNEDAI wins major contract in Dakar

As West Africa Newsletter predicted back in June (WAN 661), [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.01.2014

Africa
Richard Attias & Associates courts the ADB

After winning the contract to organize the African Development Bank's [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.01.2014

Benin
Lazard in talks with Cotonou

The government of Benin has approached Lazard France, headed by [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.01.2014

Ivory Coast
CDCI unveils new hypermarket plan in Abidjan

Compagnie de distribution de Côte d'Ivoire (CDCI), which is owned [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.01.2014

Belgium, Benin
NOËL HIVERTO KPATCHAVI (Solide Technology)

Noël Hiverto Kpatchavi, the 37-year-old Franco-Beninese boss of the Belgian-registered [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.01.2014

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