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Mali
Thumbs-down to oil firms

With Mali showing the door to many oil companies Glencore has chosen the moment to announce its departure.

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.2011

Niger
Zinder won’t start up until 2012

Construction of the refinery in Niger will take another year to complete, giving CNPC and the government additional time to agree on how it will be funded.

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.2011

Nigeria
LNG Japan’s bet may pay off

A lobbying effort by Shizuka Tamura, chief executive of LNG Japan, could well bear fruit. After travelling personally to Abuja [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.2011

Equatorial Guinea
Deal with Ophir in sight

Operator on Equatorial Guinea’s block R, the South African firm is close to reaching an agreement to supply the second liquefaction train on Bioko island.

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.2011

Nigeria
NNPC

According to Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the government’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.2011

Mali, Nigeria
Toure to pat Jonathan’s back

Mali president Amadou Toumani Toure is expected to be one [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.2011

Mauritania
Total draws a blank in Taoudeni region

Contrary to what an optimistic statement by Total ’s chief [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.2011

Sierra Leone
Edmonds and Groves flesh out iron ore portfolio

After its acquisitions in Liberia and Guinea, Sable Mining has made a move on Sierra Leone’s iron ore sector. The [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.04.2011

Togo
Togo in bid to woo Indian investors

Togo’s government has launched a campaign to draw investors to the country’s mining sector. According to our sources, an investment [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.04.2011

Ghana
Mike Allen Hammah

Ghana’s minister for lands and natural resources, Mike Allen Hammah, who is close to president John Atta Mills - he [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.04.2011

Burkina Faso
Djibrina Barry

The boss of Burkina Faso’s Conseil Presidentiel de l’Investissement (CPI), Djibrina Barry wants to see private investment account for 40% [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.04.2011

Burkina Faso
Extending Inata in Burkina Faso

Avocet Mining, which works the Inata gold mine in Burkina [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.04.2011

France, Senegal
Attali lends a hand to Senegalese mines minister

The economist and former special counselor to late French president [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.04.2011

Ivory Coast
The mining industry in post-Gbagbo days

When Ivory Coast's new president, Alassane Ouattara, finally comes to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.04.2011

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Gbagbo: Chronicle of a defeat

In military matters, as in politics, betrayal and defection often determine the course of history. In Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo was broadsided by his adversary Alassane Ouattara’s sudden offensive. But three other factors also helped to bring him down: strife [.

Subscribers only Politics 06.04.2011

Ivory Coast
Money runs out for Gbagbo

Although Laurent Gbagbo managed to withdraw CFA 664 billion ($1.4 billion) from the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.04.2011

Ivory Coast
Ouattara’s democratic coup d’etat

It took Guillaume Soro four months to prepare the vast military offensive against Gbagbo which has turned into a victorious replay of his abortive coup in 2002.

Subscribers only Politics 06.04.2011

Senegal
Wade’s too convenient coup

Too blatant to have been true, the recent pseudo coup attempt against Abdoulaye Wade served to highlight the climate of instability in Senegal. West Africa Newsletter analyses the situation.

Subscribers only Politics 06.04.2011

Guinea-Bissau
False passports for Gbagbo clan

High placed political figures in Guinea Bissau including ministers in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.04.2011

Benin
Yayi's investiture draws heads of state

While the European Union, France and China were the first [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.04.2011

Ivory Coast
PetrocI and Sodemi’s Chinese whispers

Marcel Gossio, the director-general of the autonomous port of Abidjan, [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.04.2011

Ivory Coast
Sifca Coop approached by Gbagbo camp

According to our sources the Conseil National des Sages (CNS), [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.04.2011

Niger
Trendfield guest of honour in Niger

Ying Yu Tang, the president of the Beijing-based mining group [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.04.2011

Togo
Orange in exclusive negotiations with Togo

France Télécom subsidiary Orange is pursuing its discussions with the [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.04.2011

Guinea-Bissau
Bacai Sanha

Bacai Sanha, the economics adviser to the president of Guinea [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.2011

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