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Guinea
Tullow unlikely to drill this year

The two-month-long absence from Guinea of Rougui Kaba, local representative [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.2013

Nigeria
Standard Chartered

Adviser to Petrobras when the Brazilian oil company sold off [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Ouattara crackdown on illicit gold mining

President Alassane Ouattara signed a decree on Oct. 18 in order to end illicit gold mining in the country. Interior [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Royal treatment for Brou from Dharni Sampda

India’s Dharni Sampda leased a Cessna Caravan registered TU GOD operated by the local firm Aero Corporate (but owned by [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Rafiou Oyeossi

A former executive of Elf Oil Togo and current managing director of Sparex, a central buying office for mining, industrial [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Senegal
Macoumba Diop

Like other African countries, Senegal has finally inaugurated a chamber of mines, with Macoumba Diop as its president. Boss of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Sory Diabate

The future looks pretty bright for the Sea Invest shipping company which landed a contract from Glencore in June to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Guinea
Decision on Friguia by end of October

. Guinea's mines and geology minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Newcrest Mining protests over new code

Ibrahima Danso, the deputy managing director of Newcrest Mining Cote [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Guinea
Boss of EITI drops in

. chairwoman of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Senegal
New statistics on Sabodala

Teranga Gold Corp, listed on Toronto’s stock exchange, is counting [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Guinea
Conakry

Saidou Diallo, the secretary-general of the economy and finances ministry, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou

Salif Lamoussa Kabore, Burkina Faso’s minister for mines and energy, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
ADO buys back Houphouët homes

Alassane Ouattara is keen for the Ivorian government to buy back real estate that was acquired by Félix Houphouët-Boigny and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Days numbered for CIE monopoly

Alassane Ouattara is hoping to make Ivory Coast's power outages a thing of the past by opening up the energy market to competition.

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Senegal
Cuts sound hospital's death knell

An ill-conceived €1 million French aid-funded hospital in a remote part of Senegal has recently shuttered.

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Gbagbo's peaceful promises

Laurent Gbagbo, who is being held in custody at The [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Guinea
True tub-thumps for Alpha Condé

The Franco-American PR outfit True handled campaign communications for RPG [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
GBH takes on La Compagnie Fruitière in Ivory Coast

The Martinique-based Groupe Bernard Hayot (GBH), a French-owned market leader [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Africa
BBC-Afrique unveils new plan

The delocalisation of BBC Afrique to Dakar in 2009 has [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Africa, France
Total's musical chairs in Africa

Total has shaken up the senior management of its Africa [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Lazard advises Ivorian government

Lazard bank has been contracted by Ivorian Prime Minister Daniel [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
ADB heads back to Abijdan

Some 600 African Development Bank (ADB) staff are scheduled to [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Africa, France
Accor appoints new Africa chief

The French hotels group Accor has promoted Antoine Guego as [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Togo
DOKISSIMA GNAMA LATTA (Togo Telecom)

Colonel Dokissima Gnama Latta, who hails from the Kara, in [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

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