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Ivory Coast

SODEMI in Quest for Investors

With presidential elections looming large (they are set in principle for Oct. 31), the Societe pour le développement des Mines [...]

Free access Mining 19.10.2010

A Gold Refinery in Abidjan

The Societe de Developpement des Mines (Sodemi) in Ivory Coast [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.10.2010

Randgold Hires Security Firm

Randgold Resources has penned a security contract with Vision concerning [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.10.2010

Abidjan Woos Areva

Marcel Gossio, the managing director of Abidjan’s port, is stepping [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.10.2010

Spotlight
Gbagbo’s Operation "Tako Kele"

Despite the protests of eleven other candidates who wish they had a greater share of the limelight, Ivory Coast’s upcoming presidential election is a three-man race between incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, former president Henri Konan Bedie and former prime minister Alassane [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.10.2010

Gbagbo leads in poll

With less than three weeks to go before Ivory Coast's October 31 presidential elections, the latest poll puts incumbent Laurent [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.10.2010

Jailed cocoa barons’ amnesty hopes

Languishing in Abidjan’s notorious MACA prison since June 2008, the former heads of Ivory Coast’s cocoa and coffee producing sectors recently received a visit from Pascal Affi N’Guessan, the head of the Ivorian Popular Front.

Subscribers only Politics 13.10.2010

Bidjan organise demo

Some 100,000 Bidjan, local people whom the city of Abidjan [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.10.2010

Women’s struggle

While Nadiani Bamba, Laurent Gbagbo’s second wife, is taking care [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.10.2010

ACCOR tipped to buy Abidjan Pullman

Ivorian businessman Kone Dossongui’s Atlantique group, could sell its 80% [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.10.2010

BR GAMING AFRICA stuck at the starting gate

France’s online betting specialist BR Gaming, the company behind the [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.10.2010

ZOUMANA GOITA (Batimax)

A native of Ferkessedougou, northern Ivory Coast, Zoumana Goita, 45, [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.10.2010

Petroci Casts Eyes Abroad

The Societe Nationale des Operations Petrolieres de Cote d'Ivoire (Petroci) is building up its operations abroad. Africa Energy Intelligence has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2010

Tug-of-War Over Gas Prices

While waiting for a revision of gas exploration contracts in the country - it was initially scheduled for this month [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2010

Eskom to Pull Out of Manantali

OMVS is seeking to quickly find a company to manage the Felou and Manantali dams on the Senegal River. South Africa’s Eskom wants to withdraw from Manantali.

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2010

Femi Bajomo

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the British company Afren hired Nigerian national Femi Bajomo, and appointed him regional director in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2010

Fight Against Smuggling

On Sept. 28 Togo launched what it called a new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2010

No Manganese Refining for the Moment

Ivory Coast is stepping forward on Africa’s manganese market but has failed for the moment to include a refining facility [...]

Free access Mining 05.10.2010

Diamond Trade Set for Shake-Up after Elections

Ivory Coast’s government plans to overhaul the country’s diamond business. In recent days it has multiplied contacts with Israeli and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.10.2010

Belarus Soon to be Rewarded

Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is poised to sign several [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.10.2010

Unicorn: post-electoral peace force

Despite the closure in June 2009 of the 43th naval infantry battalion (BIMA) in Port Bouet, the French Army hasn’t [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Sarkozy's man heads for Ivory Coast

On his upcoming trip to Ivory Coast, Claude Gueant the general secretary of the French president's office, will be accompanied by a plethora of intermediaries, West Africa Newsletter can exclusively reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Soro gets chummy with Gbagbo

It is not certain that prime minister will take a sabbatical after Ivory Coast’s presidential elections.

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Versus Bank’s new chairman

Kouassy Oussou, the chairman of the board of the publicly-owned [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.09.2010

MOHAMED LAMINA FADIKA (New Mining)

The former general officer of Ivory Coast’s national armed forces [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.09.2010

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