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Senegal
Health Corp spies golden opportunity

In a complete turn-around for Health Corp, which had operated up to now in the biotechnology field, the Australian company [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.05.2012

Ivory Coast
Predictive Discovery targets Birimian

An Australian explorer listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and already active in prospecting for gold in Burkina Faso (on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.05.2012

Burkina Faso
Goldrush seeks mining rights by 2015

The Ronguen project some 100 km north of Ouagadougou remains [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.05.2012

Burkina Faso
Avion Gold focuses on Hounde

After being forced to rein in its ambitions on gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.05.2012

Spotlight | Africa, France
African advisors cross paths as guard changes

François Hollande, who was sworn in as France's new president on May 15, is keen to get on with hiring his cabinet ministers and advisors and the pointers suggest that that a younger, more feminine and more ethnically diverse team [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Mali
Compaore oversteps Malian mark

The cascade of crises in Mali triggered by the March 22 coup d’etat has seriously tested the Economic Community of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Ivory Coast, Togo
Gbagbo loyalists find welcome in Lome

Laurent Gbagbo’s partisans scattered when he was forcibly removed from power in April last year. A number of them have since resurfaced in neighbouring Togo, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Ivory Coast
More ICC arrests planned

Laurent Gbagbo looks set to be joined in The Hague by others suspected of war crimes during Ivory Coast’s post-electoral crisis.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Benin
Boni Yayi wants IWA slot

President Thomas Boni Yayi is still hoping his man might be appointed leader of the International Workers' Association (IWA), despite competition from other African nations.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Burkina Faso
Compaore looks to the French left

Blaise Compaore is not unhappy about Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential defeat and has been cultivating his Socialist contacts to regain access to France's corridors of power.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Equatorial Guinea
‘Teodorin’ and Yves Saint Laurent

President Teodoro Obiang’s son splashed out on numerous items that previously belonged to French couturier Yves Saint Laurent.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Ivory Coast
Ouattara plans Holy Land visit

Initially planned for earlier this year, Alassane Ouattara’s visit to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Ivory Coast
Presidential fleet grows

The Ivorian state has acquired a fourth presidential aircraft, a [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2012

Ivory Coast
GPMCI puts pressure on Abidjan

Tensions are rising among mining companies in Ivory Coast, where [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.05.2012

Benin
Talon sends emissaries to Boni Yayi

Patrice Talon, the director of Benin Control, is trying to [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.05.2012

Africa
APO's African business grows

After Orange, Airtel, the presidency of Mozambique and the African [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.05.2012

Ivory Coast
Bollore wins Ivorian jackpot

France's Bolloré group is apparently suffering no ill-effects from its [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.05.2012

Guinea
SIBG hauls Conakry before the ICSID

In addition to GETMA, the World Bank’s International Centre for [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.05.2012

Ivory Coast
Credit Libanais poised to open in Abidjan

Credit International du Senegal (CIS), a subsidiary of the group [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.05.2012

Ivory Coast
DEMBA DIOP (News-Eco)

In his capacity as managing director of MTN Business-Cote d’Ivoire, [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.05.2012

Nigeria
Uncertainty over tie between Conoco and Shell

ConocoPhillips’ decision to sell its assets in Nigeria is going [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.2012

Nigeria
Bribing or facilitating?

Charged in February by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.2012

Nigeria
BNP advises Conoco

The U.S. oil group ConocoPhillips has retained the French bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.2012

Nigeria
Joseph Warin

Corporate monitor for Norway's oil company Statoil since it was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.2012

Equatorial Guinea
Randolph McClain

Randolph McClain, president of Liberia's national oil company NOCAL, will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.2012

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