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Ivory Coast
Bollore ups the stakes in port tender

In a move to see off all rivals, Bolloré has massively outbid other contenders for the contract to build and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.03.2013

Ivory Coast
ADB gears up for return to Abidjan

The African Development Bank will start relocating its staff back to Abidjan next month. The return to Ivory Coast’s economic capital looks set to be a complex- and costly - process.

Subscribers only Politics 20.03.2013

Equatorial Guinea
Obiang's maison

Despite his complaints about "harassment" in connection with the "Ill-gotten [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.03.2013

Ivory Coast
Ouattara keeps eye on RFI

Alassane Ouattara is unhappy about French public radio station RFI’s [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.03.2013

Spotlight | Nigeria
Electricity the shining prize for oil groups

A full year and a half behind schedule, Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan last month formally privatized a batch of power generation and transmission concessions. His aims were clear, namely to increase electricity output so that his movement, the People’s Democratic [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Liberia
Will Exxon be lucky on block 13?

Liberia’s president has opened the way for Exxon to debut on block 13 that remained fallow for five years because of general uncertainty over the acreage.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Nigeria
Malabu, another headache for ENI

With prosecutors in Milan looking into ENI’s operations in Algeria, the group’s contacts with Nigeria’s former oil minister Dan Etete are being examined in a court case in London.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Ghana
Accra points finger at Sinopec

Delays in installing gas infrastructure have exasperated Ghana’s government to the point it has accused Sinopec of being the chief villain. For some, the solution lies in importing LNG.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Mauritania, Senegal
GE tipped for gas-fired plant

In poor shape for the past decade, Senegal’s power sector could shortly spring back with a future electricity station that the Americans are likely to build.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Ivory Coast, Liberia
Monrovia spies end to shortage

Ivory Coast’s electricity looks pretty attractive to neighbouring countries chronically short of power. Abidjan is expected to shortly start supplying Liberia.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Guinea
Ray Leonard

Tullow Oil is expected to become operator in April on the block that had previously been managed in Guinea’s offshore [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Mauritania
Chinguetti falls to 7,000 bpd

The only producing oil field in Mauritania, Chinguetti, is continuing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Cape Verde
Convenient timing for Palmarejo power plant inauguration

Cape Verde prime minister Jose Marie Neves inaugurated a new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Nigeria
Sinopec forgot Jagal

Engaged in an exclusive partnership with China’s Sinopec group in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Ghana
Kweku Awotwi

Kweku Awotwi, managing director of the Volta River Authority, will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Ivory Coast
Philip Carter

Western governments are worrying increasingly about Ivory Coast’s failure to renew the exploration and reconnaissance licenses of their mining groups [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

Togo
Dammipi Noupokou

Togo’s transportation minister, Dammipi Noupokou, has once again become a key figure in the country’s mining industry following the dismissal [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

Ivory Coast
Elloh Kadio

Taurus Gold is lavishing money on local communities and generally seeking to brush up its image in Ivory Coast while [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

Guinea
Ibrahima Soumah

Guinea is flirting openly with potential Chinese investors in its mining industry. A benchmark work by former mines minister Ibrahima [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

Guinea
Saadou Nimaga

Saadou Nimaga, legal adviser to the mines ministry who chairs the technical committee and a senior government panel working with [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

Ivory Coast
Abidjan

Daouda Thiam, an adviser to Ivory Coast’s president on natural resources questions, is hard at work drafting a new mining [...]

Free access Mining 12.03.2013

Ghana
Opportunities in iron up for grabs

Ghana's land and natural resources ministry is seeking to upgrade [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

Ivory Coast
Sorry, Diabate no longer available

Easy to contact in the past, Abdramane Diabate, the managing [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

Burkina Faso
Mining boom gains traction in Burkina Faso

With expected output of over 40 tons of gold in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

Ghana
Construction of Asaase set for year’s end

Keegan Resources Inc., a Canadian explorer listed on the Toronto [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.03.2013

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