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Ivory Coast
Bollore's container victory challenged

Container Terminal Services Inc, CMA CGM, Movis and Getma Necotrans are fighting a rear-guard action to stop Bolloré taking over [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.04.2013

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

Benin
Ahmadinejad talks nuclear

In addition to attending a dinner in his honour given [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Ouattara shelves Houphouet museum

For budgetary reasons Alassane Ouattara has shelved construction of a [...]

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

Nigeria
A rig for OPL 245

In a first-ever case of its type, Shell and ENI are seeking a rig for a block that officially doesn’t [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Mauritania
Tullow wants to rule in offshore

Not content with recovering the Banda field from Petronas, the British group is in talks to acquire a new license in the shallow offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Guinea-Bissau
Cap Energy snaps up Sphere

Two licences controlled by Sphere Petroleum have been bought out by a company that remains unknown in Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Ivory Coast, Nigeria
PetroCI saves the day for MRS

State-owned PetroCI and MRS have found common ground concerning the Corlay joint venture they set up when Chevron’s service stations were acquired in 2008.

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Ivory Coast, Nigeria
Ouattara lays down the law

Nigeria’s Oranto has become the first victim of a crackdown by Ivory Coast’s government that will no longer grant extensions on permits if development work hasn’t been done.

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Rialto’s woes on Gazelle field

The Australian company hasn’t managed to find a partner to help bear the cost of drilling on the Gazelle gas field.

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Another jolt from GE for Alstom

The American giant General Election is thinking of opening a branch in Ivory Coast by mid-2013. The idea dates from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Togo
Investors wary about power plan

To meet an expected surge in demand from 184 MW in 2012 to 487 MW in 2003, the government is trying to woo investors. But the country’s shaky financial situation is scaring them away.

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Nicolas Payer

The new managing director of Total E&P in Ivory Coast, Nicolas Payer, is the first to hold that post in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Nigeria
Anthony Ogbuigwe

The job of president of the African Refiners Association (ARA) has been passed along from one major player in African [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Nigeria
Total changes local chief

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Elisabeth Proust will take over [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Ansu Bajla

India’s Ansu Bajla, African operations manager of the Dharni Sampda (formerly Taurian) company based in Abidjan, is due to soon [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.04.2013

Senegal
Jean Vavrek

The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) has turned its attention to French-speaking Africa with the creation of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Abidjan

Adramane Diabate, managing director for mines and geology in the Ivory Coast mines ministry, is keeping up the pressure on [...]

Free access Mining 09.04.2013

Togo
Home stretch before carbonated phosphate deal awarded

The final round in the tender for the concession for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.04.2013

Senegal
New board for Erin Resources

Erin Resources, a junior involved in gold exploration in Senegal, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.04.2013

Sierra Leone
Correction

A brief concerning losses of London Mining in the last [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.04.2013

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