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Niger
CNPC finds itself in the dock

Niger president Mahamadou Issoufou and his oil minister, Foumakoye Gado, are to have the final word on an audit concerning [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Ghana
Controversy over Sabre deal

Shrugging off accusations of corruption levelled against it by Ghana, South Africa’s state-owned PetroSA acquired the tiny Sabre Oil & Gas company in 2011. Now the financial police are probing the deal.

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Ghana, Ivory Coast
Why TEN is dragging on

A plan to develop the TEN complex (named after Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomma), is still under discussion between TEN operator [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Nuptials of GE & Finagestion

The Finagestion group which is 65% owned by the American equity fund Emerging Capital Partners, signed a major contract in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Foxtrot: GDF-Suez to pull out

The French giant no longer considers its stake in block CI-27 as strategic and wants to dispose of it as quickly as possible.

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Niger
CNPC

Keeping CNPC’s Niger staff happy could well become a security [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.04.2013

Burkina Faso
Jackpot for Treasury in Essakane extension

After seven months of bargaining, the Canadian firm Iamgold won a green light from Burkina Faso to begin extending its [...]

Free access Mining 23.04.2013

Guinea, United States
Simandou: Mysterious corruption charges

The Simandou mining project in Guinea has produced fallout in the United States. This weekend a 50-year-old French national, Frederic [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Dharni Sampda wins Monogaga iron ore deal

The champagne corks are popping at Dharni Sampda, an Indian company whose manganese operations in Ivory Coast regularly stir the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Guinea
Mining Code: State retains pre-emption rights

The much-decried mining code adopted in September, 2011 (and frozen two months later) was finally amended this week. The new [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Fadiga Sirakone

A member of the board of Ivoire Gold, Fadiga Sirakone, last week founded a new association named Union Nationale des [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Burkina Faso
Innocent Belemtougri

Founder and general manager of Bitel Communication, Innocent Belemtougrei, is the organizer of the Salon International de l’Energie, Mines et [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Senegal
Jean Charest

The former prime minister of Quebec, Jean Charest, a partner in the law firm McCarthy Tetraut, has provided key backing [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Abidjan

Adama Toungara, Ivory Coast’s mines minister, completed drafting a new mining land registry at the end of March. Since then, [...]

Free access Mining 23.04.2013

Togo
Balamara let down by Deepak

Balarama Resources is seeking a new deep-pocketed partner to join [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Ghana, Senegal
What GoldStone Resources aims to achieve

The firm GoldStone Resources has formed a joint venture with [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Konan Banny buffeted in Bordeaux

Charles Konan Banny, the chairman of Ivory Coast's truth, reconciliation and dialogue commission, was assailed by Gbagbo supporters when he addressed a conference in the French city of Bordeaux earlier this month.

Subscribers only Politics 17.04.2013

Guinea
Ban Ki-moon steps in to save Conde

Although Alpha Conde has set June 30 as the date for Guinea’s much-awaited elections, the continuing political tension in Conakry has prompted the UN to get involved.

Subscribers only Politics 17.04.2013

Mali
Politicians gear up for presidential poll

Laurent Fabius’s visit to Bamako on April 4 and 5 and Paris’ insistence that Bamako to stick to presidential elections in July have girded electoral campaign staff into action.

Subscribers only Politics 17.04.2013

Ivory Coast
PwC to privatise banks

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has won the contract to advise the Ivorian [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.04.2013

Ivory Coast, Mali
ISD Holding snags election contract

ISD Holding, which was founded by the former Ivorian minister [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Sodexam cancels Abidjan airport tender

Having been selected for the CFA 10 billion (€15.2 million) [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.04.2013

Africa
Phoenix Capital hires Jean Ping

Former African Union commission chairman Jean Ping was appointed the [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.04.2013

Ivory Coast
JEAN CLAUDE KUYO JR (Kuyo Pipelines)

At the beginning of April Ivorian businessman Jean-Claude Kuyo Jr [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.04.2013

Togo
EDO JOHNSON (BTCI)

Edo Johnson was promoted to interim administrator of Banque Togolaise [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.04.2013

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