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Mauritania
Indonesia’s PT Bumi takes the offensive

Active in exploring for iron ore in Mauritania since 2005, Bumi Mauritania SA, an affiliate of Indonesia’s leading coal manufacturer [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Ivory Coast
Afema: Taurus Gold in Abidjan’s cross-hairs

Officials in the mines ministry are examining the sale of the Afema gold mine in eastern Ivory Coast to Taurus [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Guinea
George Soros

The key role that American billionaire George Soros is playing with regards Guinea’s leadership has been confirmed (AMI 242/ 245). [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Togo
Sultan back to square one

Sultan Corp is to take part in a new call [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Guinea
Semi-freeze on mining rights

Ever since the management of mining licenses was reorganized and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Ghana
Azumah seeks to raise $20 million for Wa

Azumah Resources has proceeded with a share issue in a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Burkina Faso
Production to start at Kiaka in late 2014

Operated by the Canadian firm Volta Resources, the Kiaka mine [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Mali
AQIM's unpaid ransom

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had promised to pay €15,000 to the individuals who kidnapped Frenchmen Philippe Verdon [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Burkina Faso
Soro welcomes Burkinabe business

Business in Ivory Coast is booming for Burkinabe entrepreneurs, thanks to the ties between Guillaume Soro and Blaise Compaore.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Niger
French business chiefs visit Niamey

Undeterred by insecurity in Niger, some thirty-odd French businesspeople recently visited Niamey in a trade mission organised by the French employers' organisation MEDEF.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Senegal
Paris prepares for the worst

France is concerned that things could get ugly after Senegal’s presidential election in February and its soldiers are on alert.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Ivory Coast
Ouattara gets new Parisian adviser

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has a new advisor, Frenchman Thierry [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Nigeria
Bouygues puts PDP Party HQ on hold

The French construction group Bouygues, winner of the contract to [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

Ivory Coast
Malesherbes Gestion in manslaughter affair

The property sales and management firm Malesherbes Gestion, founded by [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

Guinea
Ecobank appoints new director in Conakry

It has been musical chairs at the subsidiaries of Ecobank [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

Niger
Zarubezhvodstroy under pressure in Niger

Months after the first stone of the Kandadji dam was [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

Ivory Coast
IPS to take stake in new Air Ivoire

Industrial Promotion Services West Africa (IPS-WA), owned by the Aga [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

Mali
Erys opens for business in Mali

The French security company Erys Group, which was founded in [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

Togo
DATTI AYELE (ARMP)

Datti Ayele, 49, has been appointed chairman of Togo’s Autorite [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.01.2012

Ivory Coast
Thomas Pogabaha Camara

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the managing director of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR), Joel Dervain, was discreetly replaced in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Ivory Coast
Daniel Gnangni

The managing director of the national oil company PetroCI, Daniel Gnangni, is making slight changes in his executive line-up to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Ivory Coast
Alstom seeks to lock in contracts

Alstom’s sub-Saharan Africa director Pascal Drouhaud and the group’s transportation [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Nigeria
Uncertainty over OML 245

Despite announcements in December (AEI 665), the acquisition of Malabu [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Ghana
Modec still being probed

Tullow Oil is expected to announce in its interim statement [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Guinea
Geoex International

According to the annual report of Guinea's Bureau de Recherche [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

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