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Ivory Coast
Gbagbo sets sights on Uganda

Laurent Gbagbo may take a break from the Hague if high-level behind-the-scenes negotiations with prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo lead to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Ivory Coast
Moise Lida Kouassi caught

Togolese strongman Colonel Yotrofei Massina played a key role in the capture of Laurent Gbagbo’s former securocrat Moise Lida Kouassi, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Mali
Politicians do disappearing act

Traumatised by the series of crises that have hit the country since January, Mali’s politicians are struggling to take charge of the situation.

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Mali
Hostages in Timbuktu

According to West Africa Newsletter’s sources, Malian militants arrested by [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Ivory Coast
Soro cash-strapped

Since becoming speaker of Ivory Coast's parliament in March, Guillaume [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Ivory Coast
Coulibaly goes home

Ivory Coast’s ambassador to France, Ally Coulibaly, has returned to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.06.2012

Ivory Coast
Terra's warehouses requisitioned in Abidjan

At the beginning of June Hien Sie, the managing director [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.06.2012

Benin
Geocoton courted by Benin

After falling out with Patrice Talon, the local cotton magnate [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.06.2012

Togo
BPCE bids to take over Togo's UTB bank

The banking group BPCE, France’s second largest bank, is expected [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.06.2012

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Oil gives push to Ouattara/Toungara tandem

Eighteen months after president Alassane Ouattarea and his loyal energy minister Adama Toungara took office, projects are starting to gain momentum in an oil sector that has - admittedly - benefited a lot from Ivory Coast’s proximity to major finds [.

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Nigeria
Statoil’s lengthy headache

Norway’s Statoil is still locked in a struggle with its former adviser from the Olusegun Obasanjo period who is demanding [...]

Free access Energy 12.06.2012

Nigeria
Shell cuts deal with Madueke

After a dispute lasting over three years, Shell has finally won an extension of its blocks in Nigeria’s shallow offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Ghana
Modular plant for Jubilee gas

The plant to treat gas from the Jubilee field will be a modular affair, and four companies are bidding to assemble the parts.

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Nigeria
Income Electrix blackballed

Accused of submitting a fraudulent bid to the World Bank, the Nigerian firm Income Electrix has been banned from working [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Equatorial Guinea
Gabriel Nguema Obiang

The son of Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Nguema Obiang, Gabriel, has become the fully-fledged minister in charge of oil, mines [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Ghana
GPS

In a circular letter sent on May 21 to oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Nigeria
Sonidep

Nigeria’s oil and energy minister is trying to force China [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Ghana
A whiff of nationalism

The new Ghana Petroleum Commission (GPC) set up to supervise [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Benin
Tanker stranded

Carrying 11,000 tons of LPG, the tanker Maersk Harmony has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Nigeria
$1.5 billion for PPMC

Banks had until May 31 to submit their bids to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Ivory Coast
Emergency repairs

The World Bank is set to approve a $100 million [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Equatorial Guinea
Blank Rome

Equatorial Guinea is being forced to take ever more roundabout [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Nigeria
Oditah

In its fight against its former consultant John Abebe (see [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Nigeria
Levi Ajuonuma

Levi Ajuonuma, managing director of communications for NNPC, was killed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2012

Mauritania
Nouakchott, 8-11/10

The second Mauritanian Mining Oil & Gas conference & Exhibition (Mauritanides 2012) is being organized by AME Trade in Nouakchott [...]

Free access Mining 05.06.2012

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