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Ivory Coast
Ouattara decorates journalists

Alassane Ouattara has decorated several Ivorian journalists and media heads who supported him for years when he was in the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou goes on terror alert

In 2011, Ouagadougou was furious when France placed Burkina Faso on a red list of countries most at risk from terrorism. Two years on, the reality has sunk in.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Document | Senegal
"Anti-corruption" operation continues

Macky Sall has not yet finished settling scores with the former regime. The latest example is the head of Abdoulaye Wade’s personal security.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Niger
Areva re-ups Epee in Niger

Areva has temporarily extended Jacques Hogard's French security company Epee's [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Africa, France
Slate Afrique struggling

Two years after its launch in Paris, Slate Afrique, a [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Valrhona brings chocolate to Abidjan

The Ivorian president’s office has re-upped for another year French [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Ivory Coast
ANSI takes budget cuts in Ivory Coast

As part of his drive to recast Ivory Coast’s security [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Burkina Faso
Eco-Medias opens for business in Burkina Faso

Moroccan news group Eco-Medias, headed by Abdelmounaim Dilami, will open [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Ivory Coast
PAA: New chief at Port of Abidjan

Ivorian businessman Kante Koly was appointed the new chairman of [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Gambia
JWI advises Gambia

The Gambian government has hired US firm Jefferson Waterman International [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Togo
MIKE RALSTON (Balarama Resources)

Mike Ralston, the managing director of the Australian mining company [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Equatorial Guinea
Red carpet for RoyalGate

Close to Nigeria’s oil minister, Atlantic Energy has been awarded a much coveted permit in Equatorial Guinea’s offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ghana
George Sipah-Adjah Yenkey

In addition to the advent of a new government, John Mahama’s election as president of Ghana will lead to changes [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Mauritania
Mohamed Ali Sidi Mohamed

Former Mauritanian ministers never seem to have much trouble finding new jobs. Mohamed Ali Ould Sidi Mohamed, who was the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ghana
New Oil Ministry

Ghanaian president John Mahama has decided to create the post [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Mauritania
Repsol seeks partner

The cost of a well in the Taoudeni basin (over [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Mauritania
Major loan for Banda field

The World Bank is pouring over a project to grant [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Funding for CI-27 put together

On Jan. 11, the World Bank offered $437 million in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Nigeria
Standard Chartered Bank

The British establishment is reportedly ready to put up the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Balkoyor Jamal Bakor

Balkoyor Jamal Bakor, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Ivory Coast, paid [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ivory Coast
John Mahama

John Mahama, the president of Ghana, reserved his first trip [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Nouho Kone

Tempers are continuing to rise between the Groupement des Professionnels des Mines (GMPCI) headed by Nouho Kone (Endeavour Mining) and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

Ghana
Benjamin Adoo

The head of the Ghanaian subsidiary of Keegan Resources, Benjamin Adoo, has the highest hopes for the Esaase deposit in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

West Africa
Mark Jessell

Researcher Mark Jessell from France’s Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) is heading a new West African exploration initiative [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

Liberia
Monrovia, 09-11/04

The second Liberian Mining, Energy and Petroleum Conference & Exhibition (LIMEP 2013) will be held in Monrovia between April 9-11. [...]

Free access Mining 15.01.2013

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