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Nigeria
ECP fund puts money on oil

A potential buyer of the trading and distribution operations of Addax and Oryx Group (see our report in no. 667), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2012

Nigeria
PHCN

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan is pulling out all the stops [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.2012

Spotlight | Mali
Tuareg rebels from MNLA sit on uranium assets

It’s probably too early to speculate on the fate of the Movement National pour la Liberation de l’Azawad (MNLA) which is made up mainly of Tuareg rebels who took up arms against the Bamako government in northern Mali on January [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Mali
Uranium: Go ahead for Rockgate at Falea

Rockgate Capital is intent on pushing ahead on several fronts on its Falea uranium project in south-west Mali this year. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Senegal
Toro Gold puts money on Mako in Senegal

Toro Gold, a Guernsey based explorer set up in 2009 finds itself very much in a test phase at present. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Guinea
BHP Billiton pulls out of Boffa-Santou-Houda

At the bidding of Jon Dudas, president of BHP Billiton’s aluminum department, the Anglo-Australian group’s chief for West Africa, Jean [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Togo
Dammipi Noupokou

The privatization of Togo’s phosphates sector has stirred concern. According to our sources in Lome, Togo mines minister Dammipi Noupokou [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Guinea
Mamady Youlah

The Chambre des Mines de Guinee held its general assembly on Jan. 27. The chamber’s current president, Mamoudou Diallo (managing [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Senegal
Martin Horgan

Chief executive of Toro Gold, Martin Horgan is a UK trained mining engineer, and one of the key people behind [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou, 23-24/02

The second West African businessmen’s forum named Africallia will be held in Ouagadougou on Feb. 23-24. Staged every two years, [...]

Free access Mining 07.02.2012

Guinea
Sable Mining to drill at Simandou in May

Sable Mining is stepping up its drive to explore for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Ghana
Golden Star’ oxide plant back in business

Closed down in 2008, a oxide processing at Golden Star [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Burkina Faso
Tax on sales of mining rights

The Burkina Faso authorities are to set a 20% tax [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Guinea
RusalAl races to save privileges

On Jan. 25, RusAl’s office in Conakry appealed to the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Ivory Coast
Apollo Consolidated targets Ivory Coast gold

Australia's Apollo Consolidated has re-positioned itself wholly on its mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

West Africa
Listing in sight for Toro Gold

Once it winds up a drive for fresh capital at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

West Africa
Former BHP staffers in push for Birimian

Birimian Gold has wound up a cash infusion operation after [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Burkina Faso
Vital Metals steps on gas in Douinia

The firm Vital Metals plans to invest $3 million in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2012

Mali
French "too close" to Tuaregs

In a stand-off that could turn into a full-blown diplomatic row, France has been accused by Mali of colluding with the National Mouvement for the Liberation of Azawad.

Subscribers only Politics 01.02.2012

Senegal
Euronews woos Wade

Euronews Sales, the advertising department of the European round-the-clock news [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

Ivory Coast
Sophia Airlines in the red in Abidjan

The red tape nightmare that French private security chief Frederic [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

Senegal
Bin Laden courted by Wade

Karim Wade, Senegal’s minister for international cooperation, has been tasked [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

Ivory Coast
BPCE hits wall in BACI negotiations

The Banque populaire Caisse d'Epargne (BPCE) has failed to reach [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

Equatorial Guinea
Hilton struggling in Malabo

Has the Hilton Group set its sights too high in [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

Africa, France
Medef snubs CIAN

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara's visit to Paris on January 25-28 [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2012

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