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Corridors of power 17/10/2017

Kwame Addo-Kufuor's dreams of becoming supra mining king

Ghanaian Kwame Addo-Kufuor, who is piloting the project to federate all of the mining chambers of the nation members of [...]

Business circles 17/10/2017

Lukas Lundin undaunted by Areva's yellowcake foibles

Even as Areva sets up a redundancy plan in Niger, billionaire Lukas Lundin is in negotiations for loans to develop his uranium project in the country. [...]

Spotlight Exploration-Production 03/10/2017

Bauxite: Freetown, Accra and Abidjan aspire to match Conakry's pace

In light of exponential growth of Asia's demand for bauxite, Guinea's neighbours are all trying to get in on the act and carve out their own slice of this expanding market. Freetown ready to pounce - Happily placed along the [...]

Spotlight Exploration-Production 19/09/2017

The juniors laying money on an uranium upturn

While French nuclear group Areva has put its Nigerien Imouraren uranium project under wraps for the time being, some investors are taking the opposite approach. With optimism abound, they are banking on prices recovering and jostling to get a foothold [...]

Corridors of power 19/09/2017

Niamey invents new permits to help fill State coffers

Nigerien mines minister Hassane Barazé Moussa, who wants to increase the number of active mines in the country and extend [...]

Mines on the map: railways, roads & ports 19/09/2017

Vinnet Ndlovu wants to let the sun shine on mines

The Australian businessman has plans to build solar stations to power mining operations. [...]

Small-scale mining 19/09/2017

W National Park protected from diggers

A few weeks ago, the Nigerien police were given the [...]

Corridors of power 12/09/2017

CNPC ditches all Agadem's crude export projects for time being

Over the past few months, Nigerien oil minister Foumakoye Gado [...]

Breaking news 06/09/2017

Humanitarian pioneer Bernard Kouchner moves into finance

Bernard Kouchner, founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and French foreign minister under President Nicolas Sarkozy, has confirmed his move [...]

Business circles 29/08/2017

Frank Timis and Tony Sage bearing brunt of flawed HR decisions

A British court has ruled in favour of Alexander Osipov, former CEO of International Petroleum (IPL), who claimed he had been unfairly dismissed. [...]

Consultants 29/08/2017

Kosmos Energy receives golden advice for London Stock Exchange IPO

American junior Kosmos Energy, which listed on the London Stock [...]

Looking ahead 01/08/2017

How Coris Bank wants to be mining company's best friend

Burkinabe Idrissa Nassa, head of Coris Bank International, has honed [...]

Business circles 26/07/2017

Court ruling goes against Africard in Paris

The High Court of Nanterre has granted Niger's petition to defer a series of seizures by the Inkript subsidiary. [...]

Business circles 26/07/2017

Electric shock for Nigelec

For the first time since 1994, the company has recorded heavy financial losses. [...]

Business circles 18/07/2017

Ex-Canadian minister Pierre Pettigrew lends hand to Stan Bharti

During its general meeting of July 27, Canadian junior African [...]

Oil 11/07/2017

Who is Savannah Petroleum targeting in the Niger delta?

According to our sources, Andrew Knott, CEO of Savannah Petroleum, [...]

Business circles 28/06/2017

Africard, the company that gives Issoufou nightmares

The firm that makes passports is chasing Niger for payment of a $25 million debt. And multiplying its impoundments of government assets. An exclusive report. [...]

Business circles 28/06/2017

Sinohydro likely to resume work on Kandadji dam

China's Sinohydro is expected to be tapped to resume work [...]

Oil 27/06/2017

Will there soon be a fresh face in the Agadem basin?

British junior Savannah Petroleum, which operates the R1, R2, R3 [...]

Spotlight Exploration-Production 20/06/2017

Stan Bharti in the Forbes & Manhattan boardroom.

Stan Bharti sets up VIP Gold club

Indian-Canadian tycoon Stan Bharti is preparing an offensive to transform Canadian junior African Gold Group Inc (AGG) into a major player on the West African gold scene. Until now, AGG had only explored gold at its Kobada project in Mali. [...]

Power brokers 14/06/2017

Hama Amadou to head for home

Taking refuge in France after he was flown in a medical emergency to the American Hospital in Paris in March [...]

Oil 13/06/2017

New CNPC boss in Niamey will have to hit the ground running

According to our sources, a new boss has been at [...]

Corridors of power 06/06/2017

Jonas Gbian bumps up UEMOA mining code to top priority

Freshly appointed as the commissioner in charge of mines at [...]

Business circles 31/05/2017

Sogea-Satom breaks Nigelec’s monopoly

Active in Niger for 50 years in its legacy businesses [...]

Power brokers 23/05/2017

Andrey Guryev expands his phosphates empire

Russian billionaire Andrey Guryev, one of the main shareholders and deputy chairman of the board of directors of phosphates and [...]

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