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West Africa

Ivory Coast
ADO buys back Houphouët homes

Alassane Ouattara is keen for the Ivorian government to buy back real estate that was acquired by Félix Houphouët-Boigny and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Days numbered for CIE monopoly

Alassane Ouattara is hoping to make Ivory Coast's power outages a thing of the past by opening up the energy market to competition.

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Senegal
Cuts sound hospital's death knell

An ill-conceived €1 million French aid-funded hospital in a remote part of Senegal has recently shuttered.

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Ouattara puts spin on government

President Alassane Ouattara approved a new government communications strategy at [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Gbagbo's peaceful promises

Laurent Gbagbo, who is being held in custody at The [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.10.2013

Guinea
True tub-thumps for Alpha Condé

The Franco-American PR outfit True handled campaign communications for RPG [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Niger
Tullow tries its luck on Agadem

Tullow Oil isn't easily put off, and its increasing luck in Africa has only encouraged it to keep trying to acquire acreage in countries in the Sahel region.

Free access Energy 15.10.2013

Niger
Uncertainty over Victoria Oil bid

The British company has been trying for several months to acquire relinquished acreage in Niger's basin, but success has so far eluded it.

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Ghana
ENI switches strategy on Sankofa

Permission by the energy ministry to develop the Sankofa oil and gas field is going to take longer than expected.

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Nigeria
Abdegbulugbe’s private sell-off

Former energy adviser to Olusegun Obasanjo, Anthony Adegbulugbe is selling off part of licenses he was awarded without competitive bidding in 2011, to Abuja’s displeasure.

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Nigeria
The winner of Chevron’s assets..

BNP Paribas chose the two best bids for three of the five fields Chevron has put up for sale in the Niger Delta.

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Nigeria
Seplat in gas play before IPO

Anticipated this summer by Africa Energy Intelligence (AEI 693), the flotation of the Nigerian oil group Seplat on the London [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Nigeria
OK LNG down the drain

The successive withdrawals of Chevron and Shell have doomed a project already on the ropes.

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

West Africa
Gasoil stalled in WAGP gambit

Using the West African Gas Pipeline to supply Togo and Benin with liquefied gas is going to take time, even if businessmen behind the venture are well-connected.

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Nigeria
Hiccup in privatization

With the government’s campaign to promote the second phase in the privatization of power plants and transmission lines in full [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Niger
Belko Ibrahim

The exclusion of the MODEM FA Lumana party headed by the speaker of Niger’s parliament, Hama Amadou, from the ruling [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Nigeria
Rilwanu Lukman

Relatively discreet since he left the post of Nigeria’s oil minister in 2010, Rilwanu Lukman has put his head over [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Mauritania
Somelec

Mauritania’s former equipment, town planning and housing minister Mohamed Ould [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Niger
CNPC calls shots on Agadem

While the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), was bang [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Guinea
No deal between Simba and Summa

. Although it was awarded sixty percent holding on Guinea's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Sierra Leone
Gandur pushes diversification

. The ethanol-fired thermal station at Makeni owned by Addax [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Guinea
Inquiry digs into the past

In the cross-hairs of the Department of Justice since last [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Sierra Leone
A $35 million electricity loan

The World Bank will put a projected $35 million loan [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Equatorial Guinea
Deal on capital gains tax?

After seeking a compromise for over a year in a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

Guinea
Lanny Breuer

The assistant attorney general at the Justice Department's criminal division [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.2013

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