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Liberia
Ports hold out fresh opportunities

After laying their hands of major iron deposits in Liberia, mining companies are working to place a lock on the [...]

Free access Mining 02.10.2012

Ivory Coast
Toungara reassures on additional profits

Mines minister Adama Toungara's draft bill concerning tax rates on "additional profits" generated by mining companies is making serious waves [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.10.2012

Liberia
New Liberty to be country's first big gold mine

Liberia is in the process of becoming a world-class iron-ore country playing host, as it does, to such majors as [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.10.2012

Liberia
Rand conducts tests before buying Tapeta's iron

Although it signed a conditional agreement in December, 2010 to buy the Tapeta iron ore project in Nimba county in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.10.2012

Liberia
Mount Bele Resources to drill on Nimba

Active in the center north of Liberia near the border [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.10.2012

Niger
ESEI targets West African Miners

Planting its flag in Niger early this summer, ESEI, a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.10.2012

Togo
New Tender for carbonated phosphates in the works

New developments could spring up in coming weeks in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.10.2012

Spotlight | Guinea
Conde's bad governance catches up with him

Guinea's President Alpha Conde seems to be taking his cue from his predecessors - whom he once fought - to exercise his mandate without being troubled by bothersome legislative elections and a legitimate parliament. Despite recent advances such as the [.

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Chad, Senegal
Hissene Habre's hidden millions

Hissene Habre made off with CFA 16 billion - some €24.4 million - when he fled Njamena in 1990 after [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Ivory Coast
Ahoussou out of favour with Ouattara

Appointed head of the government in the wake of the pact sealed with Henri Konan Bedie during the 2011 presidential race, Prime Minister Jeannot Ahoussou has not impressed Ouattara.

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Mali
MNLA on the offensive

Chased out of its fiefdom by AQIM and MUJAO, the MNLA Tuareg rebel movement is itching to take back its positions in northern Mali.

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Burkina Faso
Blaise and Bollore redraw African map

Vincent Bollore's rail projects in West Africa were the main topic of conversation when the French businessman met Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore in France earlier this month.

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Niger
Issoufou irks the IMF

Niger’s indebted government is trying to smooth things over with the International Monetary Fund in the wake of the news that it secretly borrowed €72.3 million from the Republic of Congo.

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Benin
Boni Yayi takes break in Nigeria

Thomas Boni Yayi spent a few days in Abuja earlier [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Burkina Faso
Discharged soldiers recruited for northern Mali

For several weeks Malian officers in Ouagadougou have been trying [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2012

Guinea
A+ Conseils pacts with Sidya Toure

During a brief visit to Paris on September 16-18, Sidya [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2012

Ivory Coast
Coris Bank eyes Ivory Coast

Coris Bank International, founded and headed by Burkina Faso businessman [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2012

Africa, France
Bollore goes global with Bollore Ports & Logistics

Dominique Lafont, the head of Bollore Africa Logistics (BAL), was [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2012

Ivory Coast
DGMG annoys Abidjan's mining companies

Relations between mining companies operating in Ivory Coast and the mining ministry headed by Adama Toungara took a turn for the worse earlier this month when the department of mines and geology (DGMD), headed by Abdramane Diabate, decided to limit to thre

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2012

Togo
Africa Capital pulled into line over UTB sale in Togo

The business bank Africa Capital, headed by Idelphonse Affogbolo, was [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2012

Mali
BCEAO slashes estimates for Mali's GDP

As might be expected, Mali's nine-month old political-military crisis has [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2012

Ivory Coast
GNI: first victory in Abidjan

Earlier this month President Alassane Ouattara decided to axe tax [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2012

Ivory Coast
VASSIRIKI KONATE (Sotexi)

The CEO of Societe Textile de Cote d’Ivoire (Sotexi), Vassiriki [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2012

Ivory Coast
Andrew Donald Bartlett

To flesh out its boardroom just as its Gazelle field in Ivory Coast is about to come on stream, Australia’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.09.2012

Mauritania
Thiam Zakaria

The legal department of Mauritania’s oil ministry has been beefed up with the appointment of three lawyers who are to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.09.2012

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