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Ghana
PMI reins in ambitions to maximize Obotan

PMI Gold Corp wound up a feasibility study on its Obotan gold project in Ghana last August. But because of [...]

Free access Mining 23.07.2013

Togo
Timis in bid for Lome Port

Undaunted by his failure to win control of the mineral terminal in the port of Abidjan operated by Belgium’s Sea [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

Niger
Firms ready to invest $12 million

Mining companies don’t seem to be scared off by problems that prevail in Niger because of the security crisis in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

Mali
Randgold takes a position in gold project in Bakolobi

Randgold Resources has penned a partnership deal with Taurus Gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.07.2013

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Ouattara gets down to business

While he is huddled with his securocrats for secret meetings most nights, during the daytime President Alassane Ouattara has regular dealings with businesspeople on contracts that have not been delegated to his inner circle - Philippe Serey-Eiffel, Amadou Gon Coulibaly [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.07.2013

Ivory Coast
CMA CGM backs out of Bollore battle

CMA CGM has dropped its legal battle over Abidjan's second container terminal contract in an effort not to spoil its [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.07.2013

Mali
Keita hopes for third time lucky

Ibrahim Boubakar Keita - known by his friends as le Kankélentiki - “man of his word” in Bambara - has an extensive network of influential friends backing his presidential bid.

Subscribers only Politics 17.07.2013

Niger
Ousted Tandja back advising Issoufou

Not many would have imagined that three years after his ignominious ouster, Niger's president would be back on the political scene…

Subscribers only Politics 17.07.2013

Ivory Coast
Bastille Day bash at embassy

Ivorian politicians and members of the French community in Ivory [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.07.2013

Benin
Thomas Boni Yayi orders probe

Furious about the chaos surrounding the next cotton campaign, (WAN [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.07.2013

Ivory Coast
French general to stay on

French General Claude Reglat, had appeared to be on the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.07.2013

Ivory Coast
Matière negotiates in Abidjan

Philippe Matière, the head of the French family-run company Matiere, [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.07.2013

Mali
Cevital eyes Mali's Makala sugar

The Malian government has entered exclusive negotiations with Issad Rebrad, [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.07.2013

Ivory Coast
Atlantic Telecom shareholder Dossongui reinvests

Ivorian businessman Bernard Kone Dossongui, has gotten back into the [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.07.2013

Africa
France Médias Monde, by any other name

France Médias Monde the new name of the holding company [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.07.2013

Mali
EADS plane-talking in Bamako

In advanced talks with the Malian government (WAN 661), Jean-Philippe [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.07.2013

Africa
McDermott Will & Emery celebrates two years in Paris

The international law firm McDermott Will & Emery celebrated the [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.07.2013

Ivory Coast
BERNARD N’DOUMI (CNPS)

The managing director of the Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.07.2013

Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
Spotlight on CI-Trapil's project

A new network of oil pipelines has begun to carry oil products to Ivory Coast's hinterland. The facility could push on to Burkina Faso by 2017.

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.2013

Ghana
ENI pushes ahead on Sankofa

Africa Energy Intelligence understands Italy’s ENI submitted a first draft of a development plan for its Sankofa gas field (on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.2013

Mauritania
Roadblocks lifted for Banda

Mauritania’s oil and energy ministry is moving ahead slowly but surely on the development of the Banda gas field and the power plants it will supply.

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.2013

Nigeria
Brussels wants to stop flaring

A new priority of the European Commission is to make better use of gas’ potential to generate electricity.

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.2013

Ghana, Nigeria
WAGP back in business

After a halt lasting almost a full year, the West [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.2013

Ivory Coast
Major credit line for SIR

France’s Societe Generale bank and the International Finance Corp., a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.2013

Ivory Coast
CMA CGM shipping company drops legal proceedings

France's CMA CGM shipping company has decided to drop legal proceedings against Ivory Coast's governments in a dispute concerning the [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.07.2013

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