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Mali
Tilemsi phosphates: Great Quest undaunted

Listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange, Great Quest Metals will shortly submit its first technical NI43-101-compliant report with an eye [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.01.2013

Guinea
Conakry soon to join EITI?

Officials in Guinea conferred last month in Conakry with Jonas [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Bad timing for Austrian trade mission

Austrian company bosses scouting for business opportunities in Ivory Coast on November 27-30 could have timed their visit better. The [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.12.2012

Ivory Coast
Ouattara taps old IMF friends

President Alassane Ouattara is counting on the expertise of a network of IMF and BCEAO technocrat friends now advising him to help get Ivory Coast back on its feet.

Subscribers only Politics 19.12.2012

Senegal
Karim questioned by police again

Karim Wade was due to be quizzed by detectives of the Dakar Gendarmerie's investigation service on December 20.

Subscribers only Politics 19.12.2012

Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
No money for mercenaries

Some 42 Burkina Faso elite soldiers recruited by Guillaume Soro [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.12.2012

Benin
Lehady Soglo eyes mayor's office

Nicephore Soglo, the country’s ex-president, will not stand for re-election [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.12.2012

Senegal
Abdoulaye Wade furious

Senegal's former president Abdoulaye Wade is convinced that he is [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.12.2012

Senegal
Gazette Media Communication takes another shot at Jaber

Senegal’s Gazette Media Communication (GME), publisher of the weekly La [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.12.2012

Guinea
SCI de Gaeta takes Guinea to court

The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.12.2012

Mali
Sogea-Satom targeted by Islamists in Mali

The crisis in Mali has taken its toll on the [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.12.2012

Ivory Coast
YAO SAHI KABLAN (BNI)

The former head of the Ivorian office of the West [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.12.2012

Mauritania
Chariot’s local connections

The oil group founded by Adonis Pouroulis made the most of the connections of Pouroulis’ father, a mining explorer who has been active in Mauritania since 2007.

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Niger
Helios in talks for blocks

Several officials from the company headed by Larry Bottomley have begun talks to operate the Djado 2 and 3 concession.

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Nigeria
Oando acquires ConocoPhillips

To raise the money needed to buy out the assets of ConocoPhillips in Nigeria, Oando is considering selling off some of its operations in the downstream and borrowing from traders.

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Ivory Coast
Foxtrot chasing licences

The chairman of Foxtrot, Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, was in Abidjan last week to use some friendly persuasion with the government to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Ghana
Sinopec keeps line under wraps

In something approaching near secrecy, a company hired by Sinopec to build a gas pipeline in shallow water is advancing slowly towards the coast.

Free access Energy 18.12.2012

Ivory Coast
North refuses to pay the bill

The Compagnie Ivoirienne d’Electricite (CIE) that generates and sells power in the country can’t get regions in the centre, north [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

United States, West Africa
Richard Dearlove

The American oil group Kosmos Energy that is active on the Jubilee field in Ghana as well as in Morocco, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Liberia
Sirleaf seeks Kuwait’s help

Liberia’s ambassador to Kuwait, Konah Blackett, is presently in charge [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Ivory Coast
Toungara's tight family ties

Oil and mines minister Adama Toungara can count on unswerving [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Nigeria
PPMC to soon sow up funding

Standard Chartered Bank has had to fight an uphill battle [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Ivory Coast
Alex Stewart International

Already active in Gabon, the firm Alex Stewart International is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Niger
Frank Timis

Frank Timis, the Australian businessman, finally managed in early December [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

Ghana
Kwabena Donkor

Kwabena Donkor, the present managing director of Ghana's Petroleum Commission, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.2012

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