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Senegal
Grande Cote in production at year’s end

A full 10 years after acquiring the Grande Cote mineral sands project on Senegal’s coast, Mineral Deposits is ready to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

Burkina Faso
Endeavour can finance its own expansion

With fairly deep pockets at present, Endeavour Mining will be able to bankroll all of its exploration and development programs [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

Guinea
Davos: Conde in push for headway with RusAl

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that Guinea president Alpha Conde who attended the World Economic Forum in Davis (between Jan. 23-27), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

Ghana
Bar placed high for new minister Fuseini

A former junior minister for energy and a lawyer by training, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini has been promoted to the job [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

Togo
Carbonated phosphates: Raising the stakes

Pre-qualified at the end of 2012 to develop Togo’s carbonated phosphates, three companies seeking the deal are working overtime at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

Togo
Housecleaning at mines ministry

On Jan. 24, Togo president Faure Gnassingbe dismissed mines and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Miners still under pressure

Miners operating in Ivory Coast must now contend with two [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Ouattara decorates journalists

Alassane Ouattara has decorated several Ivorian journalists and media heads who supported him for years when he was in the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou goes on terror alert

In 2011, Ouagadougou was furious when France placed Burkina Faso on a red list of countries most at risk from terrorism. Two years on, the reality has sunk in.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Document | Senegal
"Anti-corruption" operation continues

Macky Sall has not yet finished settling scores with the former regime. The latest example is the head of Abdoulaye Wade’s personal security.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Niger
Areva re-ups Epee in Niger

Areva has temporarily extended Jacques Hogard's French security company Epee's [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Africa, France
Slate Afrique struggling

Two years after its launch in Paris, Slate Afrique, a [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Valrhona brings chocolate to Abidjan

The Ivorian president’s office has re-upped for another year French [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Ivory Coast
ANSI takes budget cuts in Ivory Coast

As part of his drive to recast Ivory Coast’s security [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Burkina Faso
Eco-Medias opens for business in Burkina Faso

Moroccan news group Eco-Medias, headed by Abdelmounaim Dilami, will open [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Ivory Coast
PAA: New chief at Port of Abidjan

Ivorian businessman Kante Koly was appointed the new chairman of [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Gambia
JWI advises Gambia

The Gambian government has hired US firm Jefferson Waterman International [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Togo
MIKE RALSTON (Balarama Resources)

Mike Ralston, the managing director of the Australian mining company [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Ivory Coast
FATOUMATA TRAORE-DIOP (FT2ICOM)

Fatoumata Traore-Diop, Guillaume Soro’s former chief of staff and former [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Ghana
George Sipah-Adjah Yenkey

In addition to the advent of a new government, John Mahama’s election as president of Ghana will lead to changes [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Mauritania
Mohamed Ali Sidi Mohamed

Former Mauritanian ministers never seem to have much trouble finding new jobs. Mohamed Ali Ould Sidi Mohamed, who was the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Funding for CI-27 put together

On Jan. 11, the World Bank offered $437 million in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Nigeria
Standard Chartered Bank

The British establishment is reportedly ready to put up the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Balkoyor Jamal Bakor

Balkoyor Jamal Bakor, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Ivory Coast, paid [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ivory Coast
John Mahama

John Mahama, the president of Ghana, reserved his first trip [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

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