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Burkina Faso

Bissa a jewel in Nordgold’s crown

Inaugurated in 2012, the Bissa gold mine in Burkina Faso provided its operator, Nordgold, with 39% of its revenue last [...]

Free access Mining 18.03.2014

Bollore wins partial victory against Burkina Faso's SOPAM

A French court ruled in favour of Bolloré on March [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.03.2014

Aliko Dangote

African cement kingpin Aliko Dangote is taking an ever-increasing interest in the West African market, where he recently set up [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.03.2014

Mortaye Bangoura

Recently named commissioner for energy and mines at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Guinea's Mortaye Bangoura will [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.03.2014

Pan Africa Miners in hurry on Tambao

Pan African Minerals, a subsidiary of the Timis Corp group, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.03.2014

More revenue for Semafo

Burkina Faso's government has approved a decree offering a double [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.03.2014

Kumba Iron to try again

Barely had Kumba Iron Ore recovered from its setback on the Faleme iron project in Senegal than the South African [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.02.2014

Ouagadougou

Steve Parsons, general manager of Gryphon Minerals, is aiming to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.02.2014

Mohamed VI packs his suitcase for Africa again

Less than a month after his last tour of African capitals, Mohammed VI is mounting a new charm offensive on [...]

Subscribers only 11.02.2014

Gasol in major pitch for LNG

The British firm chaired by Rilwanu Lukman is seeking to offer solutions involving imports of LNG to several countries on West Africa’s coast. But the results have been mixed.

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

Stuart Lake

The managing director of African Petroleum, Karl Thomson, was the loser in the crisis at his company that followed the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

Fassine Fofana

The British firm Gasol (read here) chaired by Nigeria’s former oil minister, Rilwanu Lukman, has just appointed Guinea’s former energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

A second El Dorado unfolding?

In recent weeks, IamGold announced it was shedding some jobs at the Essakane gold mine because of a drop in [...]

Free access Mining 04.02.2014

Gilles Ferlatte

Appointed general manager of Essakane, Gilles Ferlatte took over the post from Langis Saint Pierre who stepped down on Jan. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.02.2014

A mining hub in Sahel region

Ouagadougou is keen on establishing a mining hub in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.02.2014

Ouagadougou

Peter Spiers, managing director of Australia’s Orbis Gold, has his [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.02.2014

Thomas Sankara in memoriam

The high court in Ouagadougou will rule on March 5 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Ubifrance draws full house for Burkina Faso mining

UBIFRANCE, the French international business agency, had a full house [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2014