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West Africa

Benin, Ivory Coast
Ivorian architects to accommodate Patrice Talon

The Beninese president Patrice Talon has recruited the Ivorian architects [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.05.2019

Spotlight | Algeria, Ghana, Mozambique
The secret story of Total's strike on Anadarko

Total has no intention of losing its seat as one of the largest oil players on the continent and has been busy working to keep ahead of Chevron in the race for Anadarko's African assets. To take the lead, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.05.2019

Gambia
By joining Petronas in offshore, BP buries African Petroleum era

With its May 1 acquisition of block A1, offshore Gambia, British major BP is now the biggest player in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.05.2019

Niger
Agadem: behind-the-scenes on CNPC's decision to favour Benin over Chad

According to our sources, the pace of meetings between officials from Niger's ministry of oil and their Beninese peers to [...]

Free access Energy 14.05.2019

Nigeria
Aiteo's Benedict Peters plays to Shell's tune

When invited at the last minute to Accra, the adopted city of Nigerian billionaire and Aiteo founder Benedict Peters, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.05.2019

Senegal
What Macky Sall chatted to Andrew Inglis (Kosmos) about at their Dakar date

Kosmos Energy chairman Andrew Inglis, joined by the company's two vice presidents Mike Anderson, who covers governmental relations, and Todd [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.05.2019

Nigeria | Justice
P&ID doesn't let up on battle with Abuja for its $9 billion

The lawyers of the British Virgin Islands-based Process & Industrial [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.05.2019

West Africa
Nyota scouts for contracts through connected oil man Philip Rand

Founder of Simba Essel Energy, Hassan Hassan is calling on [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy 14.05.2019

Ivory Coast
Grand Inga draftsman Y. Levy (AEE Power) bursts on to Abidjan scene

Spanish power developer AEE Power already has a foothold in [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy 14.05.2019

Spotlight | Document | Guinea
Miners ramp up push to export production via Liberia

Miners operating in southeast Guinea are hammering the Conakry authorities with demands to be allowed to evacuate their output via Liberia. The region boasts some of the world's largest deposits of iron ore and battery metals but is landlocked, with [.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 07.05.2019

West Africa
Canberra puts mining security on the agenda

Insecurity in and around mining sites in West Africa is taking a toll on the development of key projects. Given [...]

Subscribers only Defence 07.05.2019

Guinea
Toro sees golden opportunity in teamwork with Toya

The British and Turkish companies are understood to be negotiating the creation of a joint venture for two gold permits in Guinea.

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Guinea
Guinea Investment Group born under a very lucky star

The fledgling Conakry mining firm has a star-studded line-up of well-connected shareholders on board.

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Mauritania
Cheikh Ould Baya, speaker of the house and mining big gun

Known for his influence over Mauritania's fisheries (WAN 745), the speaker of parliament, Cheikh Ould Baya, who took up his [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Guinea
Jeffrey Ovian holds the fort for Mick Davis and Beny Steinmetz in Zogota

Niron Metals' management has brought in a mining sector expert to handle their Guinean operations, the freshly appointed country director [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Guinea
Soguipami on the hunt for buyers of blue gold

Soguipami is convinced that its permits located in the Lola [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Senegal
Barrick weighs up options for Massawa gold?

The merger of Barrick Gold Corp with Randgold Resources that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Guinea
Mining drinks take hold of Conakry scene

Conakry's Onomo hotel played host to the capital's very first [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Guinea
Monaco Resources rewrites bauxite plans to head into logistics

According to our sources, Societe des bauxites de Guinee (SBG), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Mauritania
SNIM employees back demands with all-out strike

Mauritanian national mining firm, Societe nationale industrielle et miniere (SNIM), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Guinea, Tanzania
Bob Adam advises Lindian in bauxite

Australian junior mining firm Lindian Resources has enlisted the services [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

Guinea
SRK helps state provide compensation to populations living near mines

Guinean ministry of mines' report on the compensation and relocation [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.05.2019

In Focus | Burkina Faso, Central Africa, West Africa
Mahamadou Bonkoungou flies high in construction thanks to presidential aviation business

As business magnates Michel Tomi and Samuel Dossou see their business aviation companies go into nosedive, the aircraft operated by Burkina Faso's Mahamadou Bonkoungou are attracting bookings from presidencies throughout West Africa and will soon start flying from Central Africa as well.

Subscribers only Politics 06.05.2019

Liza Transport International's Falcon 7X in Ebomaf Force One video featuring Chocki.

Senegal
Mouhamadou Makhtar Cisse, cuts figure as oil minister with little power

After stepping in as the minister of petroleum and energy in April, Mouhamadou Makhtar Cisse, may find himself busy with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2019

Ivory Coast
How Paul McDade (Tullow Oil) bent Ouattara's arm over Cairn

According to our sources, the head of British junior Tullow Oil, Paul McDade, quietly went on a weekend trip in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2019

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