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Mauritania

Tasiast’s fate to be decided in early 2015

Patrick Hickey, the Kinross group’s vice president for Africa, didn’t pull his punches when explaining the problems facing the Tasiast [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.10.2014

Tamagot Bumi takes on Nouakchott

Tamagot Bumi SA and Bumi Mauritania SA have submitted a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.10.2014

BB Energy’s $50m penalty for delay

Although they were previously partners, the Mauritanian government and trader Baha Bastane are now squabbling over a contract.

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Kinross pulls rug under Banda

A project to develop the Banda gas field (1.2 TCF) operated by Tullow Oil has hit a snag. The British [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Rilwanu Lukman

The name of Nigeria’s former oil minister, Rilwanu Lukman, who died in July, has been removed from the web sites [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Chandramohan Saminathan

The managing director of Petronas in Mauritania is expected to leave the country in October, according to our sources. Chandramohan [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

AFD waits patiently for Abdel Aziz's visit to Paris

The Agence Française de Developpement (AFD), headed by Anne Paugam, [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.09.2014

Mohamed Ould Khouna

Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who was re-elected to a second term in office in June, has finally decided [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.2014

Bollore also targets mining railways

After moving in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, France’s Bollore Logistics has turned its attention to Guinea and to mining-industry [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.09.2014

IS45 looks beyond Nigeria

Now it has acquired OML 29, the Nigerian firm IS45 based in Geneva is sniffing out other investment opportunities in Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.2014

Bjarne Moe

The firm African Petroleum founded by Australian businessman Frank Timis has recruited a former senior Norwegian civil servant to sit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.2014

Charter Pacific in Bumi Resources’ footsteps

Owning iron ore and gold exploration projects up to now, the Australian junior Charter Pacific has landed the 2138 C1 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

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Abdel Aziz hasn’t much luck with oil

Eight years after the outset of oil exploration in Mauritania, campaigns to find fresh resources have failed one after the other and the amount of actual production has never been so low. And with presidential elections just two weeks away [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Riyadh lends funds- with strings

Saudi Arabia’s Fund for Development (SFD) is beginning to oblige countries that it assists financially to retain firms based in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Zeidane Ould Hmeida

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has just named a new special envoy with a colourful past behind him. Zeidane Ould [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

$130 million for Banda

Following its debut on the Banda gas permit with the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

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OCP set for long rule over fertilizer market

Morocco’s powerful Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP) is about to open an office in Abidjan and for a very good reason - the market for NPK fertilizer in the sub-region has gone through the roof.

Subscribers only Mining 03.06.2014

Taleb Ould Abdi Vall

Mauritania’s former oil, energy and mines minister Taleb Ould Abdi Vall, who held the job until last September, has set [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.2014

Nouakchott
Mohamed Limamn

Mohamed Limamn, former country director for Dana Petroleum in Mauritania, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.2014

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Glencore first to benefit from sales tax cut

Nouakchott will shortly adopt fresh legislation on reimbursing sales tax on imports of mining equipment after more than two years of deliberations on the matter (AMI 284), according to our sources. The first to profit is expected to be Glencore.

Subscribers only Mining 15.04.2014

4T Commodities, a personally tailored fund

Two weeks following its launch, 4T Commodities & Emerging Markets, the new equity fund of France’s Jean Francois Fourt, has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.04.2014

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

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

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

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Mauritania

Tasiast’s fate to be decided in early 2015

Tamagot Bumi takes on Nouakchott

BB Energy’s $50m penalty for delay

Kinross pulls rug under Banda

Rilwanu Lukman

Chandramohan Saminathan

AFD waits patiently for Abdel Aziz's visit to Paris

Mohamed Ould Khouna

Bollore also targets mining railways

IS45 looks beyond Nigeria

Bjarne Moe

Charter Pacific in Bumi Resources’ footsteps

Spotlight
Abdel Aziz hasn’t much luck with oil

Riyadh lends funds- with strings

Zeidane Ould Hmeida

$130 million for Banda

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OCP set for long rule over fertilizer market

Taleb Ould Abdi Vall

Nouakchott
Mohamed Limamn

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Glencore first to benefit from sales tax cut

4T Commodities, a personally tailored fund

Aliko Dangote

Mortaye Bangoura

Kumba Iron to try again

Mohamed VI packs his suitcase for Africa again

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Mauritania

Tasiast’s fate to be decided in early 2015

Tamagot Bumi takes on Nouakchott

BB Energy’s $50m penalty for delay

Kinross pulls rug under Banda

Rilwanu Lukman

Chandramohan Saminathan

AFD waits patiently for Abdel Aziz's visit to Paris

Mohamed Ould Khouna

Bollore also targets mining railways

IS45 looks beyond Nigeria

Bjarne Moe

Charter Pacific in Bumi Resources’ footsteps

Spotlight Abdel Aziz hasn’t much luck with oil

Riyadh lends funds- with strings

Zeidane Ould Hmeida

$130 million for Banda

Spotlight OCP set for long rule over fertilizer market

Taleb Ould Abdi Vall

Nouakchott Mohamed Limamn

Spotlight Glencore first to benefit from sales tax cut

4T Commodities, a personally tailored fund

Aliko Dangote

Mortaye Bangoura

Kumba Iron to try again

Mohamed VI packs his suitcase for Africa again

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Abdel Aziz hasn’t much luck with oil

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OCP set for long rule over fertilizer market

Nouakchott
Mohamed Limamn

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Glencore first to benefit from sales tax cut