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West Africa

Nigeria
NNPC

The Anglo Dutch major Shell lost 206,000 bpd from its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.2014

Guinea
Bauxite: How Wazni is getting off the hook

A leading figure on Guinea’s mining scene - he founded and runs the big logistics firm United Mining Supply and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Guinea
Gendarmes show RusAl the door

After fleeing the Ebola fever epidemic in Guinea, the staff of Pavel Vassiliev, RusAl’s representative in Conakry, were evicted from [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Guinea-Bissau
Ilmenite: Russians on trial period at Nhiquim

The Russian firm Poto has begun prospecting on the Nhiquim heavy sands deposit near Varela in the north of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Ivory Coast
Mohamed Lamine Fadika

Lobbying by retired admiral Mohamed Lamine Fadika, boss of New Mining, which holds a stake in Randgold Cote d’Ivoire, has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Ivory Coast
A manganese plant by September

India's Dharni Sampda is to complete work in August on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Ivory Coast
IMC seeks to set up shop

According to our sources, IMC wants to plant its flag [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Ivory Coast | Abidjan
Thaw on renewing licenses

On June 25, president Alassane Ouattara signed a decree enacting [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Guinea | Guinea
Hiccup in sale of Kiniero’s gold

A final report by the technical committee that reviews mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Guinea
Conakry

Nava Toure, chairman of the technical committee in Guinea that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Guinea
Conakry

Mamadou Alpha Diallo, the representative of the German overseas development [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.07.2014

Ivory Coast
Lieberman touts Israeli business

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, signed two strategic defence and security cooperation deals during his visit [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2014

Benin
International donors lay down law

Thomas Boni Yayi is pleased as Punch about obtaining more than €9 billion development finance for Benin at a round table in Paris this month. But the pledges of money come with strings attached.

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2014

Guinea
Necotrans sends bill to Conde

After its victory against the government of Guinea at the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration in Abidjan CCJA) last month, Necontrans has instructed its lawyers to obtain the €38.4 million it was awarded.

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2014

Niger
Issoufou sticks to guns on Imouraren

The deal signed by the government of Niger and Areva in Niamey on May 26 calls for the establishment of a joint strategic committee to decide when the Imouraren unranium mine goes into production.

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2014

Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
Ouattara mediates

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara and some members of his [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2014

Ivory Coast, Morocco
Ouattara postpones Morocco

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara was scheduled to make a [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2014

Ivory Coast
Groupe Louis-Dreyfus on hold in Abidjan

Nearly 18 months after the signature of a deal between [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.06.2014

Togo
Linkstone Capital preps Togo tender

Linkstone Capital is putting the finishing touches to a tender [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.06.2014

Ivory Coast
ADB: return to Abidjan proving tricky

With work on the refurbishment of its Abidjan headquarters continuing [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.06.2014

Togo
Accor threatened with expulsion from Lome

The Togolese authorities are poised to issue an expulsion order [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.06.2014

Guinea
SIBG case thrown out by ICSID

In a ruling on May 21, the International Court for [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.06.2014

Africa, France
Necotrans recruits Jean-Philippe Gouyet

Jean-Philippe Gouyet, who recently stepped down as Airbus’ vice-president for [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.06.2014

Ivory Coast
Polyconseil prospects in Ivory Coast

Marc Taeb, the managing director of Polyconseil, a Bolloré subsidiary [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.06.2014

Ivory Coast
VICTOR SILUE NEMBELLESSINI (Nembel Invest)

The agri-industrial company Nembel Invest, founded in 1998 by Victor [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.06.2014

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