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Tata Steel gets back to work in Ivory Coast

The Indian iron and steel giant Tata Steel is poised to resume its exploration projects in western Ivory Coast by [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.06.2011

Fetekro’s gold to be mined

Cominor Cote d’Ivoire, a joint venture between the Areva affiliate [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.06.2011

Ouattara's new succession issues

Helene Houphouet-Boigny, 55, Felix Houphouet-Boigny's daughter, is hoping the change of regime in Ivory Coast might bring her closer to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Ivory Coast’s cocoa sector is in for some big changes, including a possible 22% tax cut for foreign companies. The Armajaro group is also growing in influence while other companies’ stars are expected to wane.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

FRCI helps Gbagbo followers get away

Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters are seeking refuge beyond Ivory Coast’s borders with the help, surprisingly, of Alassane Ouattara’s FRCI, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Charles Ble Goude spotted

According to West Africa Newsletter’s sources, Charles Ble Goude, leader [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Spotlight
Oil companies aren’t about to desert Sahara

The Sahara region still appears to draw oil companies. Despite Total’s letdown in Mauritania and the Taoudenni basin, and with only months before the Agadem block is due to start producing in Niger, new players like Tullow Oil are displaying [.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Toungara eyes 300,000 bpd

Ivory Coast’s oil minister, Adama Toungara, who was confirmed in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Aggreko has trouble being paid

Britain's Aggreko is turning up the heat on the new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Soro told to crack down on illicit mining

The continuation of illicit diamond mining in the northern part of Ivory Coast worries the international community, and particularly the [...]

Free access Mining 31.05.2011

Yamoussoukro, 09-11/06

Ivory Coast’s mines and energy ministry is organizing a national discussion and strategic choice week that will be held between [...]

Free access Mining 31.05.2011

French business looks to Ouattara

France's business leaders– out in force at Alassane Ouattara 's presidential inauguration on May 21 - are one jump ahead [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2011

Charles Diby Koffi on the offensive

Alassane Ouattara's finance minister has been so low key he has almost been invisible since his appointment last November. But he has been working behind the scenes forming what might be considered a cabinet of “national reconciliation".

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2011

Paris transports Bongo’s armoured vehicles

The Forces Francaises au Gabon (FFG) transported two armoured vehicles, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2011

Alpha Conde loses his cool

Guinean President Alpha Conde reacted furiously when he discovered that [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2011

Compaore sends soldiers to Ouattara

Blaise Compaore dispatched a contingent of Burkinabe gendarmes and members [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2011