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Benin
Djotodia turns up heat on Boni Yayi

The head of the Seleka rebellion in Central African Republic, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.07.2013

Ivory Coast
Work on Assinie presidential residence

The PFO company headed by architect Pierre Fakhoury has begun [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.07.2013

Insiders | Ivory Coast
Hamed Bakayoko, a Ouattara follower who sticks with his friends

Subscribers only 30.07.2013

Ghana
ENI submits PoD for Sankofa

The Italian major ENI is hoping for a quick green light from Ghana’s government to develop the Sankofa license.

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Nigeria
Summer sales season in the Delta

Chevron is winding up the disposal of its acreage in the Niger Delta while Shell is preparing for another sell-off operation. But the conditions aren't all that propitious.

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Congo, Ivory Coast
SNPC tightens grip on MBK

Congo-B’s state-owned oil company and Ivory Coast’s PertroCI are now sole owners of the MBK fields discovered by Elf in the 1980s.

Free access Energy 30.07.2013

Ghana
Work resumes at Atuabo

The China Development Bank (CDB) has finally started funding the gas purification plant at Atuabo in south-west Ghana again. Some [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Nigeria
Brass LNG puts brave face on it

Stakeholders in the Brass liquefaction project in Bayelsa state have trouble admitting it but the fate of their project appears deeply compromised.

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Niger
Russians lose Kandadji

The authorities in Niger moved on July 18 to cancel a contract awarded to Russia’s Zarubezhvodstroy (ZBS) concern to build [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Nigeria
Nasir el Rufai

There’s little doubt about what book wins the prize as summer reading among oil circles in Lagos and Abuja "The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Algeria, Ivory Coast
Hamed Koffi Zarour

Hamed Koffi Zarour has emerged as one of the most active lobbyists in touting Algerian interests in Ivory Coast. Zarour [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Nigeria
Stuart Connal

Former operations manager for the British gas firm Centrica in Nigeria between 2006-2010, Stuart Connal has been named to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Mali
Newcomers on Taoudenni

Three new oil blocks were awarded at a final cabinet [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Ghana, Nigeria
WAGP starts supplying power plants

The resumption of supplies by the West African Gas Pipeline [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Nigeria
Probe into OPL 245 deal

Two years after it took place, the acquisition of OPL [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Nigeria
Bartlett back in business

Insiders had little trouble in spying the hand of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Gambia
BGR Government Affairs

Gambia is marshalling lobbyists to serve its cause. After retaining [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
Luc-Adolphe Tiao

Luc-Adolphe Tiao, Burkina Faso’s prime minister, was present alongside Alassane [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Niger
Foumakoye Gado

Foumakoye Gado, Niger's oil minister, and his adviser, Addo Mahamane, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.2013

Ivory Coast
Michel Bictogo

Businessman Michel Bictogo, chairman of the Ivory Coast mining concern Lagune Exploration Afrique (LEA) set up in May 2006, is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

Guinea
Bob Adam

The managing director of Alliance Mining Commodities (AMC), Bob Adam, has his work cut out for him for the next [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

Ivory Coast
Jean Claude Wognin

The Ivoirian Jean Claude Wognin recently stepped down as legal and fiscal director of the Mazars law firm in Abidjan [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

Mali
Richard Dahl

The man in charge of exploration on Papillon Resources’ gold project at Fekola since 2010, Richard Dahl, has good reason [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

Mauritania
Nouakchott

Taleb Ould Abdi Vall, Mauritania’s oil, energy and mines minister, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

Ivory Coast
Abidjan

Christophe Jacquin, managing director for North and West Africa for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

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