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West Africa

Nigeria
Doubts over OML 83/85 sale

After the expected sale of OML 52, 53 and 55 to Brittania-U (AEI 708), Chevron is holding its cards close [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.2013

Nigeria
Pulling out all the stops on OPL 245

Shell is working overtime to explore the block that it took 10 years to acquire.

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.2013

Guinea
Tullow unlikely to drill this year

The two-month-long absence from Guinea of Rougui Kaba, local representative [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.2013

Nigeria
Standard Chartered

Adviser to Petrobras when the Brazilian oil company sold off [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Ouattara crackdown on illicit gold mining

President Alassane Ouattara signed a decree on Oct. 18 in order to end illicit gold mining in the country. Interior [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Royal treatment for Brou from Dharni Sampda

India’s Dharni Sampda leased a Cessna Caravan registered TU GOD operated by the local firm Aero Corporate (but owned by [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Rafiou Oyeossi

A former executive of Elf Oil Togo and current managing director of Sparex, a central buying office for mining, industrial [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Senegal
Macoumba Diop

Like other African countries, Senegal has finally inaugurated a chamber of mines, with Macoumba Diop as its president. Boss of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Sory Diabate

The future looks pretty bright for the Sea Invest shipping company which landed a contract from Glencore in June to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Guinea
Decision on Friguia by end of October

. Guinea's mines and geology minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Newcrest Mining protests over new code

Ibrahima Danso, the deputy managing director of Newcrest Mining Cote [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Guinea | Conakry
Boss of EITI drops in

. chairwoman of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Senegal
New statistics on Sabodala

Teranga Gold Corp, listed on Toronto’s stock exchange, is counting [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Guinea
Conakry

Saidou Diallo, the secretary-general of the economy and finances ministry, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou

Salif Lamoussa Kabore, Burkina Faso’s minister for mines and energy, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.10.2013

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

Guinea
True tub-thumps for Alpha Condé

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

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
GBH takes on La Compagnie Fruitière in Ivory Coast

The Martinique-based Groupe Bernard Hayot (GBH), a French-owned market leader [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Africa
BBC-Afrique unveils new plan

The delocalisation of BBC Afrique to Dakar in 2009 has [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Africa, France
Total's musical chairs in Africa

Total has shaken up the senior management of its Africa [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
Lazard advises Ivorian government

Lazard bank has been contracted by Ivorian Prime Minister Daniel [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Ivory Coast
ADB heads back to Abijdan

Some 600 African Development Bank (ADB) staff are scheduled to [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Africa, France
Accor appoints new Africa chief

The French hotels group Accor has promoted Antoine Guego as [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

Togo
DOKISSIMA GNAMA LATTA (Togo Telecom)

Colonel Dokissima Gnama Latta, who hails from the Kara, in [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.10.2013

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