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West Africa

Sierra Leone
Stellar could soon have diamonds

Stellar Diamonds should complete its definitive feasibility study in the coming months on the Tongo kimberlite project (1.1 million carats) [...]

Free access Mining 21.01.2014

Senegal
Grande Côte on the final stretch

Mineral Deposits (MDL, Australia) has sold its stake in the Senegalese gold mining company Teranga Gold Corp just as it [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Brou backtracks on SODEMI reform

Ivory Coast’s mining and industry minister Jean Claude Brou has suspended the plan to reform Sodemi, the national company to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Burkina Faso
Tambao at the environmental stage

The Frank Timis group company Pan African Burkina, that operates [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Burkina Faso
A new code by June

Speaking in Paris at the invitation of the Ubifrance agency [...]

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Spotlight | Burkina Faso
Compaoré in tight corner

Blaise Compaore's regime is reeling following the mass walk-out of more than a hundred members of the ruling Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) party, including some key party stalwarts. After the serious mutinies in 2011, the fact that several [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Business booming for Drogba

An international footballer who has rather more business savvy than fellow soccer star, Cameroonian Samuel Eto'O, Didier Drogba founded Keyman [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014

Benin
Talon stays on message in Paris

Exiled Beninese businessman Patrice Talon's busy networking in Paris over the Christmas holidays seriously irked Thomas Boni Yayi, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014

Mali
Report slams widespread corruption

At a time when international donors are trying to obtain better results from development aid to Africa, a new report from Mali's auditor general sheds some useful light.

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014

Benin
Keeping a welcome for CAR ex-presidents

Newly exiled in Benin after receiving the green light from [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Ouattara honours Houphouët, at last

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has given the OK for renovation [...]

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Burkina Faso
Wedding bells

Prime Minister Luc Adolphe Tiao‘s daughter Vanessa wed Cedric Zongo, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014