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Africa, France
Belliard at Quai d'Orsay's Africa desk

Jean-Christophe Belliard is poised to replace Elisabeth Barbier as head of the French foreign ministry's Africa and Indian Ocean desk [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.11.2012

Ivory Coast
Gomis minds his manors in Paris

Charles Gomis, Ivory Coast's new ambassador to France, has moved into the swanky Paris mansion that Felix Houphouet-Boigny bought in the 1970s.

Subscribers only Politics 07.11.2012

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou steps up security

Burkina Faso is deploying major security means to prevent terrorist [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.11.2012

Ivory Coast
Amadou Gon Coulibaly in the hot seat

After several months convalesence in Paris after heart surgery, Amadou [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.11.2012

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
Guardian angels over Starc's cradle

Three years after winning block X in Equatorial Guinea's offshore, the small explorer Starc will drill its first well on the potentially oil-rich concession, the only asset in its portfolio. The company has strong ties with Equatorial Guinea's government, operational [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Guinea-Bissau, Senegal
Oryx explores on tip-toes

A decades-old conflict in Casamance is complicating exploration of the joint oil zone between Senegal and Guinea- Bissau.

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Ghana
Donkor the bugbear of oilmen

Relations between oil companies operating in Ghana and the managing director of the Ghana Petroleum Commission, ex deputy energy minister Kwabena Donkor, have dived to a new low.

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Nigeria
Princely friends for Royalgate

The new E&P subsidiary of the Nigerian oil services group Atlantic Drilling Co., Royalgate is striving to snap up acreage in Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Ivory Coast
US and Israelis get the nod

The Israeli firm Telemania is on the verge of winning the contract to build a gas-fired power plant in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Nigeria
Andrew Lloyd

Britain’s high commissioner in Nigeria since 2010, diplomat Andrew Lloyd last month took up work with Norway’s state-owned oil company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Niger
Katembe Issoufou

During a cabinet meeting on Oct. 24, Niger’s president, Mahmadou Issoufou, decided to name a person close to him as [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Ivory Coast
Jean-Marc Simon

France’s former ambassador to Ivory Coast (between 2009 and 2012), 65-year-old Jean-Marc Simon, was in Abidjan at the end of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Ivory Coast
PetroCI

Ivory Coast’s oil minister, Adama Toungara, the boss of PetroCI [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Ghana
Misgivings on local content

Oil companies operating in Ghana still haven’t been given a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Guinea
Tullow breaks into offshore

The announcement that Tullow Oil and Hyperdynamics were in exclusive [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Nigeria
ConcoPhillips: race down to 3

African Energy Intelligence understands that only three Nigerian firms are [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Ivory Coast
Linklaters

Prior to Jones Day, which completed the operation last month [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Guinea-Bissau
Cassidy & Associates

After long serving as a lobbyist for Gabon and then [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2012

Guinea | ALUMINA
Mamou refinery: Vale says nao

The staff in Guinea’s mines ministry is pouring over a report on a feasibility study submitted confidentially late last year [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

Ivory Coast
Naguib Sawiris

In anticipation of the end of the mine life of Ity in Western Ivory Coast, the management of La Mancha [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

France, Guinea
Salimatou Diallo

A law firm specializing in Guinea - it handled Rio Tinto’s brief on Simandou iron - Herbert Smith Freehills is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

Mauritania
Ahmed Taleb Mohamed

Under the supervision of oil, energy and mines minister Taleb Ould Abdi Vall, Ahmed Taleb Mohamed, his technical counsellor, is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

Mauritania | Nouakchott
US Geological Survey’s state of play on resources

Carol Finn, a geophysicist who works for the US Geological [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

Ivory Coast | Abidjan
Newcrest to roll out red carpet for Toungara

The Australian mining company Newcrest is to play host in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

Mauritania
Changes in store for Mauritanian sales tax?

According to Africa Mining Intelligence sources, Mauritania’s oil, energy and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.10.2012

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