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Ivory Coast
Ouattara's new succession issues

Helene Houphouet-Boigny, 55, Felix Houphouet-Boigny's daughter, is hoping the change of regime in Ivory Coast might bring her closer to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Ivory Coast
Reforming the cocoa sector

Ivory Coast’s cocoa sector is in for some big changes, including a possible 22% tax cut for foreign companies. The Armajaro group is also growing in influence while other companies’ stars are expected to wane.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Ivory Coast
FRCI helps Gbagbo followers get away

Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters are seeking refuge beyond Ivory Coast’s borders with the help, surprisingly, of Alassane Ouattara’s FRCI, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Senegal
Law commission fights amendment

MPs are putting up resistance to changes in the law that could make it easier to money-launder with impunity.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Senegal
Frenchman freed

After three months languishing in prison in Dakar, Frenchman Sebastien Couasnet was freed on June 6.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Benin
Boni Yayi nice to securocrats

Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi is preparing a treat for [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Benin, Ivory Coast
Charles Ble Goude spotted

According to West Africa Newsletter’s sources, Charles Ble Goude, leader [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Africa, France
Total Afrique thinks Bordeaux

Under secretary-general Antonin Fotso, the Africa department of Total's Exploration [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.06.2011

Spotlight | West Africa
Oil companies aren’t about to desert Sahara

The Sahara region still appears to draw oil companies. Despite Total’s letdown in Mauritania and the Taoudenni basin, and with only months before the Agadem block is due to start producing in Niger, new players like Tullow Oil are displaying [.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Nigeria
Confusion over Shell’s licenses

Having won Shell’s stake on OML 34 after a lengthy bidding round, Niger Delta has asked the Anglo-Dutch major to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Nigeria
Alison-Madueke’s crusade

Waiting to be confirmed in her post by president Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison Madueke is showing she’s willing take on oil companies.

Free access Energy 07.06.2011

Mauritania
Petronas awaits Banda verdict

Mauritania’s government has founded a new joint company with mining concerns that could acquire gas from the Banda field to generate power.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Niger
Kandadji a free pass for Moscow

Thanks to donors in the Gulf, a Russian company will, for the first time, build a dam in West Africa without putting up a penny itself.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Benin
Jonas Aliou Gbian

In the new government he named on May 28, Benin president Thomas Boni Yayi turned the oil, mining and energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Nigeria
Power Holding Co of Nigeria

Out of 929 companies that put in bids to take [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Ivory Coast
Toungara eyes 300,000 bpd

Ivory Coast’s oil minister, Adama Toungara, who was confirmed in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Equatorial Guinea
EG LN2 set for launch in 2012

The project for a second liquefaction train in Equatorial Guinea [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Ivory Coast
Aggreko has trouble being paid

Britain's Aggreko is turning up the heat on the new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Ghana
USD 70 million for Takoradi

The board of the International Finance Corp., the private investment [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Ghana
Tullow buys EO Group

Ireland’s Tullow Oil has bolstered its position in Ghana by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Liberia
Canaccord Genuity

A subsidiary of the Canadian group Canaccord Financial, Canaccord Genuity [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Equatorial Guinea
Teodoro Obiang Nguema

Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the president of Equatorial Guinea, was on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Nigeria
Alassane Ouattara

Alassane Ouattara, the Ivory Coast president, met on May 29 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Burkina Faso
Bruce Lumley

The man in charge of the Bissa-Zandkom gold project in Burkina Faso, Bruce Lumley, has received some good news. The [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2011

Ivory Coast
Yamoussoukro, 09-11/06

Ivory Coast’s mines and energy ministry is organizing a national discussion and strategic choice week that will be held between [...]

Free access Mining 31.05.2011

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