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Nigeria
Firm local only in name

In the running to acquire some of Chevron’s Nigerian assets (see here), First Hydrocarbon Nigeria (FHN) is still considered a [...]

Free access Energy 18.06.2013

Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast
Questions on Kesnad Oil & Energy

The chief executive of the Ivoirian company Kesnad Oil & Energy, Kouassi Kouame, signed an agreement with the managing director of Petroguin, Antonio Serifo Embalo, on June 7 in unusual circumstances.

Subscribers only Energy 18.06.2013

Ivory Coast
A Russian leg-up for ex-Vanco

The Panatlantic company is continuing to pick up acreage in Ivory Coast with considerable assistance from Russian interests.

Subscribers only Energy 18.06.2013

Ghana
Who’ll join Tullow on TEN ?

The Ghanaian government’s endorsement of Tullow Oil’s development plan for the TEN complex could now prompt Tullow to turn to companies that had already displayed an interest in the fields.

Subscribers only Energy 18.06.2013

Nigeria
PHCN

In order to ensure that companies which won power stations [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.06.2013

Ghana
GNPC to explore Volta alone

Although applications to explore for oil in the onshore Volta [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.06.2013

Nigeria
Sell-off cash starts rolling in

The Nigerian government has already begun to pocket cash disbursed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.06.2013

Ghana
Vice president in oil talks

Ghana’s vice president, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, conferred in the president’s office [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.06.2013

Spotlight | Mali
Bamako spies phosphate riches in north

Gold has long reigned supreme but phosphate is edging into the picture. Anticipating that its gold mines will reach maturity in coming years, Mali is keen on diversifying its mining industry and is now looking seriously at phosphates in the [.

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Guinea
British and Americans warm to Conde

Launched in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos and then pursued in South Africa in February, the United [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Ivory Coast
Gazprombank hits the gold trail

In the wake of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest oil company which returned to Ivory Coast in late 2011, Gazprombank, the financial [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Ivory Coast
Didier Drogba

Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba, a world football star and European champion with his London club Chelsea in 2012, has made [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Ivory Coast
Kimbefo Ouattara

Head of the legal and fiscal department of Deloitte & Touche Cote d’Ivoire, Kimbefo Ouattara is planning to organize a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Mali
Jean-Francois Lalonde

A director of Stellar AfricaGold for the past two years, Jean Francois Lalonde has become operations manager of the explorer [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Burkina Faso
Mamoru Sekiyama

President of the Association des Entreprises Japonaises and member of the Conseil Presidentiel Burkinabe pour l’Investissement (CPI), Mamoru Sekiyama is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Mali
Australians to promote land registry for mining

After years of lobbying, the Australian firm Intierra RMG has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Ivory Coast
Another license for Dharni Sampda

After winning the Monogaga license at the end of April, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Ivory Coast
EPC lobbies miners

After opening an office in Abidjan in March, the French [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Togo
Togo Invest has big things in mind

By launching a new government holding concern Togo Invest Corporation [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Guinea
Yet another contract review, financed by ADB

The legal consultancy trade is decidedly booming in Conakry. After [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Burkina Faso
Semafo invests $22 million in Mana

Canada’s Semafo plans to spend $22 million on developing its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Mali
Bamako

Amadou Baba Sy, Mali’s mines minister who was invited to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Ivory Coast
Abidjan

Wayne Camard, the local representative of the IMF in Ivory [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.06.2013

Ivory Coast
Bollore: UEMOA probes Abidjan contract

The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) is to investigate Ivory Coast's award of the contract for a second container terminal in Abidjan to a consortium of French group Bolloré, APM Terminals and Bouygues.

Subscribers only Business 05.06.2013

Ivory Coast
DEMBA DIOP (ARTCI)

Ivorian telecommunications expert Demba Diop was appointed a member of [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.06.2013

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