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AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°222 - 10/03/2010 WHO'S WHO Augustin Komoé Kouadio On February 23 Augustin Komoé Kouadio was appointed minister for mines and energy in Guillaume Soro’s government, replacing Léon Emmanuel Monnet. (...)  [165 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°222 - 10/03/2010 WHO'S WHO Sebastião Panzo It is transfer season in Luanda. A few months after having inherited the job of chairman of the board at Endiama, Antonio Carlos Sumbula, replacing Manuel Arnaldo Calado who resigned for health reasons, is faced with a different kind of resignation, this time from the director of the firm handling the company’s marketing and communications, Sebastião Panzo. (...)  [180 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°221 - 24/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Louis Goodwill Nchindo Both the global diamond business and public opinion in his country are in shock. Louis Goodwill Nchindo, a personal friend of former president Festus Mogae and managing director of Debswana, the 50-50 joint venture set up by the Botswana government and De Beers, from was found dead on February 8 in the bush near Masedi Farms. (...)  [201 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°221 - 24/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Robert Quartermain Robert Quartermain has resigned from his position as President and CEO of the Canadian firm Silver Standard Resources Inc which works in Canada and the United States, but also in Latin American countries like Chile and Peru. (...)  [96 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°221 - 24/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Boris Granovsky Africa Aura Mining Inc. (AAM) now has a new non-executive director in the shape of Boris Granovsky, who is currently director of strategy and development at the Russian company Severstal Resources. (...)  [105 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°220 - 10/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Mahamadi Savadogo Mahamadi Savadogo, 46, nicknamed “Gaddafi” because of the long time he spent in Libya when he was a student, has not given up the idea of going back into mining. (...)  [237 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°220 - 10/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Peter Davies Peter Davies was appointed on February 1 to join the top management of CSA Global, formerly CSA Australia, as director of the department in charge of mining projects and development. (...)  [123 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°219 - 27/01/2010 WHO'S WHO Gabriel Obiang Lima The reshuffle on January 13 following presidential elections in Equatorial Guinea has not fundamentally altered responsibilities at the country’s ministry for mines, industry and energy. (...)  [160 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°219 - 27/01/2010 WHO'S WHO Etienne Bafaï Société Nouvelle des Phosphates du Togo (SNPT) now has a new man in charge. Etienne Bafaï replaces Florent Maganawé, who was ousted together with Yao Kanekatoua. (...)  [185 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°218 - 13/01/2010 WHO'S WHO John Ross This graduate of the Camborne School of Mines in Great Britain who previously worked for Australia’s Port Kembla Copper, Rio Tinto and Glencore International has been appointed chairman of Katanga Mining Ltd. (...)  [222 words]  [$5.4]   AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°222 - 10/03/2010 WHO'S WHO Marie Nambona-Boybo The atmosphere is leaden at Areva Ressources Centrafrique. Apart from the questions over mining the Bakouma site in 2010 (AMI 221), the deputy director of the Areva subsidiary in the Central African Republic has taken the management head-on in a law suit. (...)  [175 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°222 - 10/03/2010 WHO'S WHO Alain Georges Nébié Sanu Ressources Burkina, a subsidiary of the Vancouver-based Canadian company Sanu Resources, has appointed Alain Georges Nébié as its new managing director. (...)  [96 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°221 - 24/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Adama Barry Managing director of Nantou Mining SA which holds the permit to mine zinc at Perkoa, Adama Barry is a key figure in the Burkina mining sector because of his wealth of experience and network of contacts. (...)  [132 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°221 - 24/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Huw Phillips This figure from the university world retired in January after teaching for 25 years at the Department of Mines at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in Johannesburg, South Africa. (...)  [109 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°220 - 10/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Mahmoud Thiam Mahmoud Thiam, the man at the heart of the dispute between the Guinean government and the Russian aluminium giant RusAl, is above all a financier. (...)  [150 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°220 - 10/02/2010 WHO'S WHO Antoine Vanheuverswyn The company Tongonaise de Mines (Tomi) was formed in January to subcontract excavation work, extraction work and services connected with extraction at mines situated in the north of Ivory Coast. (...)  [137 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°219 - 27/01/2010 WHO'S WHO Kemoko Touré After a career spanning over 40 years, the new managing director of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG), Kemoko Touré, has been appointed to replace the Australian businessman Ronald Renton, who resigned from the job (AMI n°216). (...)  [139 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°219 - 27/01/2010 WHO'S WHO Adama Kindo The founder of Société Minière Kindo Adama (Somika), Adama Kindo, who comes from the north of the country, is one of few businessmen in the country able to stave off competition from the majors in Burkina’s gold sector. (...)  [133 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°218 - 13/01/2010 WHO'S WHO Alpha Oumar Diallo The business lawyer Alpha Oumar Diallo has a rather special brief in Guinea. He has become adviser to the main mining and commercial companies operating in the country. (...)  [145 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°218 - 13/01/2010 WHO'S WHO Victor Boyarkin The Kremlin’s special envoy to Conakry, Victor Boyarkin, is extremely busy trying to resolve the dispute between RusAl and the Guinean government. (...)  [142 words]  [$5.4]