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West Africa

Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe
Changes needed to save the Joint Development Zone

A joint commission between Nigeria and Sao Tome y Principe and chaired by the two countries’ heads of state is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.2016

Senegal
President’s brother, Aliou Sall, the new wheeler dealer in oil

Put together in January, Senegal’s opposition coalition Jubanti Senegal, which includes members of civil society, is particularly up in arms [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.2016

Spotlight | Burkina Faso
Diallo’s spring cleaning drive in the mining industry

The power behind the throne of Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, the speaker in the country’s parliament, Salif Diallo, plans to put the mining sector under a microscope, and starting with the granting of concessions. Diallo has moved [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Mali
A decisive year for Resolute Mining

Two big challenges are facing Australia’s Resolute Mining in Mali this year. The company must complete a definitive feasibility study [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Guinea
Conde scouting for partners for SMB

Guinea's president, Alpha Conde, has renewed his pledge to grant SMB new bauxite reserves to make up for the company's failure to secure a partner to that end.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 15.03.2016

Guinea
Societe des Bauxites de Guinee lands a concession

The Societe des Bauxites de Guinee (SBG) was finally handed a mining concession by presidential decree on Feb. 22 (AMI [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Mali
Taurus Funds Management takes it easy on Hummingbird

Hummingbird Resources won a new delay in paying back its debt to Australia’s Taurus Funds.

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Ivory Coast
Michel Mian lands new gold concession

Ever since Sodjiedo Michel Mian helped Newcrest to plant its flag in Ivory Coast in the 2000s (he remains a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

West Africa
Daniel Gagnon to run Met-Chem/DRA in Montreal

Following the acquisition of Met-Chem, an affiliate of US Steel Corp, by the South African engineering consulting concern DRA, Daniel [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Guinea
Paulo Gomes’ shift from World Bank to Conde’s presidential council

A presidential investment council headed by state minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana plans to take a close look at policy as [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Guinea
Magassouba to run Soguipami

Mines minister Abdoulaye Magassouba has taken over as chairman of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Ivory Coast
Bollore negotiates an accord

The French group Bollore Africa Logistics has kicked off talks [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Ivory Coast
SGBC’s leg-up for Compagnie Miniere du Littoral at Lauzoua

The Compagnie Miniere du Littoral (CML), a joint subsidiary of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Ivory Coast
Duncan waiting for Amara Mining to get started

Ivory Coast prime minister Daniel Kablan Duncan is beginning to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Guinea
Orrick offers a suggestion on Boffa

Guinea's consultant on awarding bauxite blocks once owned by BHP [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.03.2016

Togo
Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, Faure's right-hand woman

Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, Faure Gnassingbe's chief-of-staff, has emerged as the Togolese president's leading aide in an entourage that consists mostly [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.03.2016

Ivory Coast
Gisele Bijimin joins Massere Toure at palace

Gisele Bijimin, a Canadian of Congolese origin, has been hired by the Ivorian president’s office as deputy director of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.03.2016

Senegal
AFD down in Sall’s PSE pecking order

The French development agency AFD (Agence Francaise du Developpement) is [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.03.2016

Ivory Coast
Air Cote d’Ivoire favours Avianca-Colombia

Abdoulaye Coulibaly, the head of Air Cote d’Ivoire, and the [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.03.2016

Ivory Coast
Postal service gets major makeover

Bruno Kone, Ivory Coast’s minister for the digital economy and [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.03.2016

Ivory Coast
General Electric leases office space from Dominique Ouattara

General Electric, headed by Jeffrey Immelt, has chosen to establish [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.03.2016

West Africa
AfricaMetrics’s margins of error

The polling firm AfricaMetrics’ predictions about the first round of [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.03.2016

Ivory Coast
Sicogi under scrutiny

President Alassane Ouattara’s staff are still reeling from the budget [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.03.2016

Ivory Coast
Mohamed El Fadel Kane lands government bond issue

Mohamed El Fadel Kane, the managing director of EDC Investment [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.03.2016

Togo
Tidiane Ndiaye, the new head of Orabank

After the retirement of its French head Guy Sauvanet in [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.03.2016

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