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Riverstone updates Karma gold resource

Riverstone Resources Inc, an explorer listed on the TSX and headed by Michael McInnis, has shifted into higher gear. It [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.11.2012

IMF’s advice on mining taxes

Recognized as an engine of growth, Burkina Faso’s mining industry is being increasingly monitored by the Bretton Woods institutions. The [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.11.2012

Sylvain Domboue

By hiring Sylvain Domboue, former secretary-general of the mines ministry of Burkina Faso, as its manager, Australia’s Ampella Mining Gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.11.2012

Ouagadougou steps up security

Burkina Faso is deploying major security means to prevent terrorist [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.11.2012

Tambao/Wadi:Arbitration decision in 2014

The International Chamber of Commerce in Paris has handed down a mixed decision in a dispute pitting Wadi Al Rawda [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

Egis Avia flies high in Ouagadougou

The consortium of Egis Avia, Egis Bceom and IOSIS has [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.10.2012

The great LNG drought

Taking the floor the Gas Tech conference on Oct. 10, Babs Omotowa, director of Nigeria LNG (NLNG), admitted that talks [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

Claude Poulin

A specialist in gold mines in West Africa, Claude Poulin, recently joined Orezone Burkina as manager of its Bombore project [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Bissa Gold to start producing by year’s end

The Bissa gold mine owned jointly by Russia’s Nordgold and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

The CFA 180 billion bill to extend Essakane

The Canadian mining group IAMgold is going to spend around [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Soro settles soldiers’ pay

During his recent visit to Ouagadougou Ivory Coast's Guillaume Soro gave several dozen Burkinabe soldiers hope that they may soon be paid for their role in ousting Gbagbo.

Subscribers only Politics 10.10.2012

Bucharest on acquisition trail

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that a company owned by Romanian tycoon Ovidiu Tender is currently putting the final touches to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.2012

West African Resources moves into higher gear in Burkina

Australia’s West African Resources has just raised $4.4 million through [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.10.2012

Blaise and Bollore redraw African map

Vincent Bollore's rail projects in West Africa were the main topic of conversation when the French businessman met Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore in France earlier this month.

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Discharged soldiers recruited for northern Mali

For several weeks Malian officers in Ouagadougou have been trying [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

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New flare-up in Tambao ownership fight

The decidedly complicated issue over who owns the Tambao manganese project has reared its head once again in Ouagadougou. Early this year, African Minerals, a group owned by Frank Timis, was declared winner of a final tender issued by Ouagadougou [.

Subscribers only Mining 18.09.2012

Elie Ouedraogo

President of the Chambre des Mines du Burkina (CMB) since 2011, Elie Ouedraogo has been appointed to the board of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.09.2012

Tambao contract awarded… almost

Ouagadougou has found a contractor to exploit the manganese deposits in Tambao, north eastern Burkina Faso, but a law suit is threatening to derail the deal.

Subscribers only Politics 12.09.2012

Pirates cut off the gas

The West African Gas Pipeline that carries gas from the Niger Delta to Ghana, Togo and Benin stopped functioning completely [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.09.2012

Gryphon Minerals sees revenue rolling in by 2014

Australia's Gryphon Minerals hopes to be producing its first gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.09.2012

African Minerals carries the day at Tambao

As Africa Mining Intelligence had anticipated (AMI 276), the firm African Minerals has won a green light to work the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.08.2012

Cluff Gold targets Seguenega

Cluff Gold has decided to acquire new properties in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.08.2012

Timis and CNPC as bedfellows

African Petroleum’s quick and bountiful harvest of acreage in West Africa means it will have to look for key partners with deep pockets. State-run Chinese companies fit the bill.

Free access Energy 24.07.2012

The World Bank’s leg up for Burkina Faso

The World Bank has put around CFA 20 billion at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.07.2012

Merkel snubs Compaore

Unlike Faure Gnassingbe in June 2009, Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore did not get the red carpet treatment from a rather mistrustful German Chancellor Angela Merkel during his recent visit to Germany.

Subscribers only Politics 27.06.2012

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Burkina Faso

Riverstone updates Karma gold resource

IMF’s advice on mining taxes

Sylvain Domboue

Ouagadougou steps up security

Tambao/Wadi:Arbitration decision in 2014

Egis Avia flies high in Ouagadougou

The great LNG drought

Claude Poulin

Bissa Gold to start producing by year’s end

The CFA 180 billion bill to extend Essakane

Soro settles soldiers’ pay

Bucharest on acquisition trail

West African Resources moves into higher gear in Burkina

Blaise and Bollore redraw African map

Discharged soldiers recruited for northern Mali

Spotlight
New flare-up in Tambao ownership fight

Elie Ouedraogo

Tambao contract awarded… almost

Pirates cut off the gas

Gryphon Minerals sees revenue rolling in by 2014

African Minerals carries the day at Tambao

Cluff Gold targets Seguenega

Timis and CNPC as bedfellows

The World Bank’s leg up for Burkina Faso

Merkel snubs Compaore

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Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Burkina Faso

Riverstone updates Karma gold resource

IMF’s advice on mining taxes

Sylvain Domboue

Ouagadougou steps up security

Tambao/Wadi:Arbitration decision in 2014

Egis Avia flies high in Ouagadougou

The great LNG drought

Claude Poulin

Bissa Gold to start producing by year’s end

The CFA 180 billion bill to extend Essakane

Soro settles soldiers’ pay

Bucharest on acquisition trail

West African Resources moves into higher gear in Burkina

Blaise and Bollore redraw African map

Discharged soldiers recruited for northern Mali

Spotlight New flare-up in Tambao ownership fight

Elie Ouedraogo

Tambao contract awarded… almost

Pirates cut off the gas

Gryphon Minerals sees revenue rolling in by 2014

African Minerals carries the day at Tambao

Cluff Gold targets Seguenega

Timis and CNPC as bedfellows

The World Bank’s leg up for Burkina Faso

Merkel snubs Compaore

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New flare-up in Tambao ownership fight