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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 [...]

Business circles 04/07/2017

Freetown court seizes Newfield's diamonds

A Sierra Leone court is preparing to comb through all the details of Newfield Resources' diamond-mining operations in the country following a dispute with former director, Joseph Kowai. [...]

Spotlight Exploration-Production 20/06/2017

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. [...]

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 [...]

Exploration-Production 23/05/2017

Double legal serving for Frank Timis

The Paris International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is finally about to start arbitral proceedings between the Burkinabe state and Pan [...]

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 [...]

Power brokers 02/05/2017

Phil Patman, Vaalco’s righter of wrongs

While dodging blows from its shareholders who suspect the company’s books to contain substantial flaws (AEI 790), Vaalco Energy, the [...]

Consultants 04/04/2017

Northland helps Keras switch target

British firm Keras Resources solicited the services of Northland Capital [...]

Consultants 21/03/2017

Re-branding of former Alufer head

The former non-executive director of British firm Alufer Mining in [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 07/03/2017

New mining strategy could be unveiled in March

Sierra Leonean mines minister Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray is close to [...]

Looking Ahead 07/03/2017

AMR Gold has mining rights upheld

At the end of 2016, Fatmata Binto Alhadi, a judge [...]

Consultants 07/03/2017

Leigh Day defends villagers against mining companies

British law firm Leigh Day is pursuing its action before [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 07/02/2017

Steinepreis brothers patiently cobbles together a gold empire

Running into problems in Australia, the Steinepreis brothers are snapping up small gold concerns in West Africa. [...]

BUSINESSMEN 07/02/2017

Steel expert Ansu Katta turns hand to bauxite

Supervising exploration by Jindal Steel & Power in Sierra Leone where the Indian group plans to build a coal-fired power [...]

Spotlight CORRIDORS OF POWER 01/02/2017

Freemasonry in disarray

The death in a road accident on Jan. 29 of Clotaire Magloire Coffie shouldn’t result in a major shake-up of the Grande Loge de Cote d’Ivoire (GLCI). After serving as grand master for three decades Coffie gave up his post [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 24/01/2017

Managem in fresh drive on West Africa’s gold Free

Imad Toumi, the CEO of Managem, the mining unit of Moroccan king Mohammed VI’s holding company SNI, met with Senegalese [...]

Exploration & Production 24/01/2017

Ukrainians and Israelis slugging it out for gold

A judge in the high court in Freetown, Fatmata Bintu Alhadi, handed down her finding on Jan. 11: the Ukrainian [...]

BUSINESSMEN 20/12/2016

Serigne Drame’s push for wider worker rights

In Dakar in late November, the Senegalese magistrate Serigne Assane Drame spelled out his first recommendations aimed at establishing a [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 14/12/2016

France trains African troops

Following commando operations by French Special Forces in the Sahel-Saharan Strip and recent terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, Mali and [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 30/11/2016

BCEAO puts pressure on international banks

The BCEAO has asked foreign banks operating within the West [...]

Oil 29/11/2016

Blue Oil Energy, a discreet broker out to conquer the continent

A brand new oil brokerage company, Blue Oil Energy, which is based in London and on the highly posh Quai [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 15/11/2016

Tullow cuts sharply into next year’s exploration budget for Africa

Even if Tullow Oil’s creditors have offered it a new [...]

Consultants 08/11/2016

Sula Iron counting on VSA Capital to drum up money

Sula Iron & Gold has retained the services of the [...]

Small-scale mining 25/10/2016

miner in Burkina Faso looks for fresh vistas

In disgrace in Ouagadougou since the fall of president Blaise [...]

Looking Ahead 25/10/2016

ECOWAS’ stock market takes form

In recent weeks a project by Togo’s Edoh Kossi Amenounve, [...]

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Crisis in Qatar sowing dissent in Africa

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