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Mali
Business as usual for Bamako despite turmoil

With French warplanes moving this weekend to attack columns of Islamic fighters in the centre and north of Mali, Bamako [...]

Free access Mining 15.01.2013

Sierra Leone
Amara Mining at a crossroads

The time for big decisions has struck for Amara Mining (formerly Cluff Gold). Dependent up to now on its Kasalka [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

Guinea
Full speed ahead for Anglo Aluminum

Anglo Aluminium Corp’s bauxite exploration operations are going to speed up following the renewal of the group’s Koba Koumbia and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

Guinea
Iron Ore : Vale International & BSGR counter attack

Vale International and Beny Steimentz Group Resources have changed tack with their VBG joint venture in Guinea. At the end [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

Togo
George Roach

Known in the industry as a founding-director and ex managing director for Africa of UraMin Inc - the company was [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

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

Ivory Coast
Zambia to deploy mining brigades

Zambia’s Ministry of Mines has begun hiring a lot of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

Burkina Faso
AusQuest pulls out stops on Comoe

Australia’s AusQuest plans to bend most of its efforts to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Deadly stampede’s political fall-out

The political rivalry between Ivory Coast’s Interior and Security Minister Hamed Bakayoko, and parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro has degenerated in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2013

Benin
Poisoning probe continues

A number of key figures close to Thomas Boni Yayi have been charged with plotting to poison the head of state.

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2013

Mali
Military weigh in on Cissoko govt

The CNRDRE did not settle for merely getting rid of Cheick Modibo Diarra last month, it has also weighed in on the make-up of new PM Diango Cissoko’s government.

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2013

Guinea
Blair leads Conde's advisers machine

Guinea's president is counting on foreign rather than local experts to help restore his image and give him some much-needed advice on governance.

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2013

Equatorial Guinea
Grounded Falcon prompts talks

President Teodoro Obiang may soon recover the Falcon 50 that [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Ouattara hires new flak

Alassane Ouattara has appointed Jean-Jacques Bitty to the Ivorian presidential [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2013

Mali
Tomota vs Mali goes before OHADA court

The Organisation for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa’s [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.01.2013

Africa
Kong Media launches “Emergence” in Africa

The Hong Kong-based press group Kong Media is to launch [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Alstom wins contract in Abidjan

After missing out on a number of key tenders in [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Sodexam poised to pick French contractor

At the end of this month the Societe de Developpement [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.01.2013

Ivory Coast
PHILIPPE DI NACERA (MediaPhil)

The French media company MediaPhil, based in the Paris suburb [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.01.2013

Mauritania
Mamadou Amadou Kane

Close to Mauritanian oil minister Taleb Ould Abdi Vall, Mamadou Amadou Kane was appointed boss of the new Societe de [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2013

Nigeria
Stalemate on OPL 245

According to our sources, the arbitration proceedings that have pitted [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2013

Nigeria
Oando raises $350 million

Oando, an oil group headed by Wale Tinubu, proceeded with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2013

Burkina Faso
$16 million for 2 power plants

The World Bank will decide in August on whether to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2013

Gambia
JWI

Already acting as a lobbyist for Ivory Coast (AEI 657), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2013

Nigeria
Philippe Laborde

Philippe Laborde, former head of the African department of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2013

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