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West Africa

Ivory Coast
Question mark over Belier

Energy and oil minister Adama Toungara got the government on May 5 to adopt a production sharing contract for the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Nigeria
Ex-DPR man helps win OML 25

A company named Crestar and backed by a former Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) chief finds itself in the best position to acquire Shell's stake on OML 25.

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Ivory Coast
Hyundai to finish Azito in 2015

Pressure from the government and from the concession-holder at Azito to make sure the timetable to extend the power station is honoured seems to have paid off.

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Ivory Coast
Noel Guetat

Former chief of staff to Ivory Coast's oil minister between 2011 and 2014, Noel Guetat lost no time in finding [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Gambia
Arbitrator for Banjul

Cited before ICSID by African Petroleum for unlawfully breaking off [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Nigeria
Money found for Azura-Edo

The Amaya Capital Partner fund headed by Phillip Ihenacho and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Equatorial Guinea
Claus von Wobeser

The Mexican mediator who has been trying for two years [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Spotlight | Guinea
How Rio Tinto tightens grip on Simandou

Rio Tinto’s legal action in New York on April 30 against Vale, BSGR (Beny Steinmetz Group Resources), former Guinea mines minister Mahmoud Thiam and the widow of late president Lansane Conte, Mamadie Toure, in the Simandou affair forms just part [.

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Ivory Coast
Diamond exports to surge by end of this year

The lifting on the United Nations embargo on Ivory Coast’s diamonds on April 29 will enable Abidjan to at last [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Guinea
SMFG/BHP Billiton told to pay up

With the Simandou iron ore project in the far east of the country stalled by legal issues (see P. 1), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Nigeria, Togo
Aliko Dangote

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote might not be completely unconnected to a delay in examining bids in a tender to award [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Ivory Coast
Georges Dramane Koulibali

The Ivoirian junior Niquel Africa founded in October, 2009 by Ivory Coast businessman Georges Dramane Kouilbali seems to have the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Burkina Faso
True Gold fast off the mark in Karma

The Canadian mining company True Gold Mining Inc is planning [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Senegal
Cisse’s optimism undimmed

Senegal's director for mines and geology, Ousmane Cisse, is expecting [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Burkina Faso
West African Resources bets on Mankarga

West African Resources has raised $3 million to complete a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Ivory Coast
Abidjan

Jean Claude Brou, Ivory Coast’s industry and mines minister, wants [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Senegal
French probe “clears” Wade

Investigators have found little evidence to back up the Senegalese government’s claims that the son of former President Abdoulaye Wade hid “ill-gotten gains” in France.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2014

Ivory Coast
Ouattara reins in Kablan Duncan

The Ivorian President disagrees with PM Daniel Kablan Duncan on a number of strategic issues including the reform of the road transport system.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2014

Mali
MINUSMA and missing Beninese kit

A surprise UN inspection revealed that the Beninese contingent of MINUSMA was missing uniforms, air conditioners and computers.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2014

Guinea
Sahara to supply crude oil to Guinea

Nigeria’s Sahara Petroleum has won a six-month contract to supply [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.04.2014

Niger
Chalair still flying high in Niger

Although its license to operate flights in the country has [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.04.2014

Ivory Coast
BMCE bonds with Ivorian government

The Ivorian authorities have given a thumbs-up to Banque Marocaine [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.04.2014

Ivory Coast
Keolis uncorks the champagne in Abidjan

The French urban transport company Keolis, headed by Frederic Baverez, [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.04.2014

Benin
Port Autonome de Cotonou’s temporary staff. Benin’s President

Thomas Boni Yayi has hit upon an ingenious way to [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.04.2014

Guinea
Nava Toure (EDG)

A graduate of the University of Conakry’s Institut Polytechnique engineering [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.04.2014

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