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Nigeria
Seplat to seek London listing?

Operator of the blocks 4, 38 and 41 in the Niger Delta, the Seplat group is thinking of floating shares [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2013

Niger
Advantica/Labana pack up

A number of Nigerian companies are losing their oil concessions because of their inability to pay signing bonuses to the authorities in Niger.

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2013

Nigeria
Atlantic Energy a popular firm

Oilmen and traders are courting a raft of businessmen gravitating around the Atlantic Energy firm reputed to be close to oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2013

China, Ivory Coast
Sinohydro

China seems ready to pull out all the stops to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2013

Sierra Leone
Petroleum Resources Unit (Sierra Leone)

Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma, has re-asserted his trust [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2013

Niger
Trapil in Agadem export bid

According to our sources, the managing director of the French [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2013

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Frank Timis in San Pedro and soon Abidjan

Changes are afoot with mineral export terminals in Ivory Coast. The government has directly negotiated a contract with Pan African Minerals (PAM), a venture owned by entrepreneur Frank Timis, for the construction and concession of a minerals terminal in San [.

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2013

Guinea
A roaring trade for legal advisers

Hardly a month passes in Conakry without a law firm being awarded a contract to advise in the review of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2013

Guinea
IMF points way to riches

Officials from the International Monetary Fund have been in Guinea since early February. In June, 2012, the IMF’s finances department [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2013

Nigeria, Togo
Aliko Dangote

Nigeria’s Dangote group that works in textiles, transportation, cement, telecommunications or other industries is taking a close look at the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2013

Senegal
Ousmane Cisse

There won’t be any lack of challenges for Ousmane Cisse, Senegal’s director for mines and geology, this year: revision of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2013

Burkina Faso
Channel Resources steps on gas at Tanlouka

After winning an extension of its Tanlouka exploration permit until [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2013

Burkina Faso
Roxgold to kick off program at Yaramoko

Roxgold Inc is due to launch an intensive exploration program [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2013

Spotlight | Mali
Paris stays at the helm

Despite the claim in French President François Hollande's speech in Bamako on February 2 that France had "no material interests in Mali," Paris is keen to capitalise on its triumphant and well-received anti-jihadist intervention in the country.

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Ivory Coast
Timis and Bollore duel for rail contracts

West Africa’s rail extension plans have sparked a ferocious struggle between Frank Timis and Vincent Bollore, both of whom want to scoop all of the contracts.

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Ivory Coast
Serey-Eiffel gives no favours to French

Philippe Serey-Eiffel, President Alassane Ouattara’s powerful special advisor, has got a number of French companies’ backs up. The latest to get the brush off is Bouygues.

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Senegal
Wannabe PMs form a line

The imminent start of Hissene Habre's trial has revived speculation about Abdoul Mbaye's departure as prime minister. Several candidates are positioning themselves to step in.

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Ivory Coast
ADO lunches with Soro in Assinie

Far from the bustle of Abidjan, President Alassane Ouattara had [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Ivory Coast
Pronibex-CI sells to Vassiriki Konate

Ivorian businessman Vassiriki Konate acquired the cocoa processing and export [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.02.2013

Ivory Coast
Arab Contractors for Abidjan’s airport

The Egyptian construction group Arab Contractor has won the first [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.02.2013

Equatorial Guinea
Societe Generale leaves Malabo

French bank Societe Generale is hoping to secure the sale [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.02.2013

Ivory Coast
PHILIPPE NOUVIAN (Gecmo)

Philippe Nouvian, the brother of first lady Dominique Ouattara, is [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.02.2013

Ghana
Kwabena Donkor

The curtain has fallen on the chairman of Ghana’s Petroleum Commission, Kwabena Donkor, who had to give up his car [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

Nigeria
Farouk Lawan

Farouk Lawan, a Nigerian lawmaker from Kano who headed the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

France, Mauritania
Taleb Ould Abdi Vall

Taleb Ould Abdi Vall, Mauritania's oil, energy and mines minister, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

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