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Ivory Coast, Nigeria
PetroCI & MRS seek accord

According to sources in Abidjan, the finance director of MRS Group, Olumide Phillips, was in Ivory Coast in September for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

Senegal
President’s brother wins the prize

Headed by the brother of president Macky Sall, the Senegalese company Petro Tim has won two offshore blocks under the nose of Tullow Oil.

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

Sierra Leone
Chevron’s farming partner

A company named Odye made much of its expertise in agriculture to win backing from members of the Petroleum Directorate.

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

Mauritania
Petronas

By injecting huge amounts of water and drilling new wells, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

Mauritania
New start to E&P next year

The second Mauritanides conference which was held in Nouakchott between [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

Niger
New tension for CNPC at Zinder

Relations between the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Niger [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.2012

Spotlight | Mauritania
Iron: Bumi affair conveys bad impression

Was it a matter of incompetence at the mines ministry or a political issue? The affair pitting Bumi Resources Group (India) against Rubis International which will be decided by the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris (TCP) in coming weeks has [.

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Guinea
Talks start with RusAl on Dian Dian

Discussions on the Dian Dian bauxite project, a key element in the global re-negotiation of RusAl’s mining contracts with Guinea, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Mauritania
Fresh start for Bofal phosphate

After initial hiccups, the project to develop a phosphate deposit at Bofal in central Mauritania (AMI 238) appears to be [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Mauritania
OMRG underscores its chromite resources

Known for its reserves of iron ore, gold and copper, Mauritania also boasts major resources of chromite, an ore from [...]

Free access Mining 16.10.2012

Ivory Coast
Newmont Overseas Exploration waves goodbye

Newmont Overseas Exploration, the Ivory Coast unit of the Canadian mining behemoth Newmont, is planning to wind up its exploration [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Mauritania
Chakib Khelil

Chakib Khelil has confirmed his new status as a consultant. The appearance of the former Algerian oil and mines minister [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Burkina Faso
Claude Poulin

A specialist in gold mines in West Africa, Claude Poulin, recently joined Orezone Burkina as manager of its Bombore project [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Niger
Jean Francois Fourt

With his company already active in Ivory Coast, Morocco and Mauritania, the chief executive officer of Osead CMT, Jean Francois [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Senegal
Dakar, 6-8/11

The second Salon International des Mines, SIM Senegal, will take place at the Hotel King Fahd Palace in Dakar between [...]

Free access Mining 16.10.2012

Burkina Faso
Bissa Gold to start producing by year’s end

The Bissa gold mine owned jointly by Russia’s Nordgold and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Guinea
Vale disappoints Conakry

The Guinean authorities had been counting a lot on a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Guinea
Confusion prevails as Fofana keeps his job

On the evening of Oct. 5, president Alpha Conde confirmed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Guinea
Conde cites push to boost mining revenue

On the occasion of festivities in Boke on Oct. 2 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Mauritania
Mauritania’s fiscal problem

The need for a system to tax mining revenue at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Burkina Faso
The CFA 180 billion bill to extend Essakane

The Canadian mining group IAMgold is going to spend around [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.10.2012

Ivory Coast
Bintou Toungara Kamara (Tanassa Technologies)

Bintou Toungara Kamara, the daughter of Ivory Coast’s mining, oil [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.10.2012

Ivory Coast
Astana puts on the Ritz to woo ministers

Ivory Coast’s development minister, Albert Toikeusse-Mabri, and African integration minister, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 10.10.2012

Benin
Illassa cosies up to Boni Yayi

A famous blogger who was once an all-out critic of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 10.10.2012

Equatorial Guinea
Constancia makes changes at the presidency

Constancia Nsue Mangue Equatorial Guinea’s highly powerful first lady, used [...]

Subscribers only Politics 10.10.2012

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