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Martin Bouygues gets VIP treatment

Alassane Ouattara rolled out the red carpet for Martin Bouygues, his friend for more than two decades, during the French construction group leader's recent visit to Abidjan.

Subscribers only Politics 22.05.2013

Ouegnin puts spanner in ADB's works

The African Development Bank’s imminent comeback to Abidjan has revived old rows including one with founding President Felix Houphouet Boigny's head of protocol, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 22.05.2013

ACMAT supplies Ivorian government

A shipment of several dozen armoured vehicles for use by [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.05.2013

Anthony Sage

The chairman of International Petroleum (IP), Anthony Sage, is to step down on June 30. Very close to IP’s founder [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.05.2013

Trafigura's lost $2.1 million

Kevin Halligen, founder of the security firms Red Defence International [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.05.2013

RTI under tighter government control

Ivory Coast is expected to shortly appoint Ahmadou Bakayoko as new managing director of the state-controlled media group RTI (Radio-Television [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2013

Ouattara steers clear of rebel stronghold

During a state visit to the Tonkpi region that lies in the mineral-rich mountainous region of western Ivory Coast, president [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.05.2013

China Railways wins deal in Ivory Coast

The Ivory Coast government awarded a direct contract without competitive bidding to China Railway Construction Corp on May 4 to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.05.2013

Mukesh Rajan

India’s Mukesh Rajan has taken over the reins of Tata Steel Cote d’Ivoire, a joint venture formed by government-owned Sodemi [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.05.2013

Tin-Tantalum-Tungsten: Mixed results for due diligence talks

Unsurprisingly, a meeting in Paris in early May of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.05.2013

Better monitoring of gold in future

The Paris meeting of the CIRGL-OECD-UN Experts Group on "guidance [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.05.2013

Minmetals tiptoes into Samapleu nickel project

Last week, MMG Explorations Holdings, an affiliate of MMG, acquired [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.05.2013

Abidjan

Neil Woodyer, managing director of Endeavour Mining, plans to inaugurate [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.05.2013

Michel Gbagbo may be freed

The imprisonment of Michel Gbagbo, which was discussed during François Hollande and Alassane Ouattara's meeting in Paris on April 11, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.05.2013

Local elections change political game

Alassane Ouattara has emerged weaker from Ivory Coast's local elections on April 14. More than a warning, the vote has underscored a shift among the Ivorian electorate towards independent candidates.

Subscribers only Politics 01.05.2013

Ouattara gives in to Bedie

On the advice of Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore, Ivory [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.05.2013

Bouygues International snags Tiama contract in Abidjan

French construction group Bouygues has won the contract to extend [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.05.2013

Max Air takes on Corporate Elite in Abidjan

Max Air, a new local private airline, received the green-light [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.05.2013

ALI GHAZAL (Cotraf)

Lebanese businessman Ali Ghazal is planning to build a CFA [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.05.2013

Why TEN is dragging on

A plan to develop the TEN complex (named after Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomma), is still under discussion between TEN operator [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Nuptials of GE & Finagestion

The Finagestion group which is 65% owned by the American equity fund Emerging Capital Partners, signed a major contract in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Foxtrot: GDF-Suez to pull out

The French giant no longer considers its stake in block CI-27 as strategic and wants to dispose of it as quickly as possible.

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Dharni Sampda wins Monogaga iron ore deal

The champagne corks are popping at Dharni Sampda, an Indian company whose manganese operations in Ivory Coast regularly stir the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Fadiga Sirakone

A member of the board of Ivoire Gold, Fadiga Sirakone, last week founded a new association named Union Nationale des [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Abidjan

Adama Toungara, Ivory Coast’s mines minister, completed drafting a new mining land registry at the end of March. Since then, [...]

Free access Mining 23.04.2013

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