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Burkina Faso

Managem in fresh drive on West Africa’s gold

Imad Toumi, the CEO of Managem, the mining unit of Moroccan king Mohammed VI’s holding company SNI, met with Senegalese [...]

Free access Mining 24.01.2017

A reprieve on Taparko for Nordgold

On Jan 18, Burkina Faso’s government awarded Russia’s Nordgold a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

President’s allies in wide-ranging hunt for investors

Burkina Faso’s government is drawing up plans to court new [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Burkina Faso appoints a lawyer to defend it against Frank Timis

Following Frank Timis’s decision to take on Paris law firm Betto Seraglini (WAN 742) to defend his interests in his [...]

Subscribers only 18.01.2017

Timis in discreet bargaining on Tambao’s manganese

The lawyers of Pan African Minerals have begun the deliberations on the resumption of mining at Tambao.

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2017

The long, long haul to apply new mining code

Although Burkina Faso’s government adopted seven decrees to implement the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2017

CAMC-O ponders legal dispute between Burkina Faso and Frank Timis

The Ouagadougou arbitration, mediation and conciliation centre, CAMC-O, is due to rule on the major legal dispute between Burkina Faso [...]

Subscribers only 09.01.2017

Ouagadougou hires top lawyers to take on Timis

Some of the country’s finest legal minds have been roped into the dispute between the state and the Romanian businessman.

Subscribers only Politics 04.01.2017

Sadou Oumarou becomes new army chief

Col. Sadou Oumarou has replaced Gen. Pingrenoma Zangre – elder brother to the chief of staff in the office of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.01.2017

Operation Revival for the phosphates branch

Seeing that Mali and Morocco were both investing heavily in phosphates, one of the rare mining resources spared by the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Serigne Drame’s push for wider worker rights

In Dakar in late November, the Senegalese magistrate Serigne Assane Drame spelled out his first recommendations aimed at establishing a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Dissa wants his part of the cake offered by donors

During a conference of Burkina Faso’s financial partners held in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Miners could turn on Elie Ouedraogo

Calling in vain for severance pay after being laid off [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Kabore to bring the military back to government

Faced with worsening security, the president is expected to return senior army officers to the executive branch in early 2017. Place your bets.

Subscribers only Politics 14.12.2016

France trains African troops

Following commando operations by French Special Forces in the Sahel-Saharan Strip and recent terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, Mali and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.12.2016

Auguste Barry to hang up his uniform

Col. Auguste-Denise Barry, who currently serves as security advisor to President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, is planning to resign from [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.12.2016

Compaore’s machine in the dock

All eyes will be on Haute Cour de Justice (HCJ) chairman Mathieu Bebrigda Ouedraogo when he opens the court’s hearings [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.12.2016

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Dissa’s uphill fight to win back the mining community’s heart

In a meeting to be held in a posh Paris hotel on Dec. 7-8 with Burkina Faso’s donors, mines minister Alpha Oumar Dissa won’t be able to sidestep questions that worry investors about the future of his country’s mining sector.

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Roxgold soon connected to power grid

By the end of this year the Yaramoko gold mine [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Tambao: Timis calls for arbitration at Paris Chamber of Commerce

Founder of the Pan African Minerals group, Frank Timis has launched arbitration proceedings before the International Chamber of Commerce in [...]

Subscribers only 05.12.2016

Cornered, Bollore slams judge and plaintiff in SOPAM case

After an arbitration tribunal ruled in favour of Mohamed Sogli against Bollore, the French group has challenged the decision and attacked the plaintiff's reputation.

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2016

Kabore seeks new lease of life in Paris

Weakened by social unrest and insecurity, the head of state is banking on an upcoming donors’ conference to finally get his term in office up and running.

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Frank Timis hires Betto Seraglini

Frank Timis, the head of several mining and oil companies [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2016

BCEAO puts pressure on international banks

The BCEAO has asked foreign banks operating within the West [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Faso Construction out of Treasury contract

Faso Construction, founded by Burkinabe businessman Mohammed Abdullai, had to [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

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Burkina Faso

Managem in fresh drive on West Africa’s gold

A reprieve on Taparko for Nordgold

President’s allies in wide-ranging hunt for investors

Burkina Faso appoints a lawyer to defend it against Frank Timis

Timis in discreet bargaining on Tambao’s manganese

The long, long haul to apply new mining code

CAMC-O ponders legal dispute between Burkina Faso and Frank Timis

Ouagadougou hires top lawyers to take on Timis

Sadou Oumarou becomes new army chief

Operation Revival for the phosphates branch

Serigne Drame’s push for wider worker rights

Dissa wants his part of the cake offered by donors

Miners could turn on Elie Ouedraogo

Kabore to bring the military back to government

France trains African troops

Auguste Barry to hang up his uniform

Compaore’s machine in the dock

Spotlight
Dissa’s uphill fight to win back the mining community’s heart

Roxgold soon connected to power grid

Tambao: Timis calls for arbitration at Paris Chamber of Commerce

Cornered, Bollore slams judge and plaintiff in SOPAM case

Kabore seeks new lease of life in Paris

Frank Timis hires Betto Seraglini

BCEAO puts pressure on international banks

Faso Construction out of Treasury contract

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Burkina Faso

Managem in fresh drive on West Africa’s gold

A reprieve on Taparko for Nordgold

President’s allies in wide-ranging hunt for investors

Burkina Faso appoints a lawyer to defend it against Frank Timis

Timis in discreet bargaining on Tambao’s manganese

The long, long haul to apply new mining code

CAMC-O ponders legal dispute between Burkina Faso and Frank Timis

Ouagadougou hires top lawyers to take on Timis

Sadou Oumarou becomes new army chief

Operation Revival for the phosphates branch

Serigne Drame’s push for wider worker rights

Dissa wants his part of the cake offered by donors

Miners could turn on Elie Ouedraogo

Kabore to bring the military back to government

France trains African troops

Auguste Barry to hang up his uniform

Compaore’s machine in the dock

Spotlight Dissa’s uphill fight to win back the mining community’s heart

Roxgold soon connected to power grid

Tambao: Timis calls for arbitration at Paris Chamber of Commerce

Cornered, Bollore slams judge and plaintiff in SOPAM case

Kabore seeks new lease of life in Paris

Frank Timis hires Betto Seraglini

BCEAO puts pressure on international banks

Faso Construction out of Treasury contract

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Dissa’s uphill fight to win back the mining community’s heart