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West Africa

Sierra Leone
Port Loko bauxite project ramping up

A new phase is about to unfold for SLEMCO, the Sierra Leone Exploration and Mining Co. that owns the Port [...]

Free access Mining 15.02.2011

Ivory Coast
Plunge in manganese output

Ivory Coast’s manganese production has plummeted in recent months. The country exported just 8,965 tons in December as opposed to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

Sierra Leone
New momentum for Koidu Holdings

Koidu Holdings SA, a company that operates a diamond mine of the same name owned by Beny Steinmetz’s group, is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

Burkina Faso
Semafo to build up Mana

The coveted Canadian mining company Semafo run by Benoit Lasalle, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

Guinea
Would-be suitors eye Dian Dian bauxite

The huge bauxite deposits at Dian Dian are attracting covetous [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

Mali
A mining school with Mandela’s blessings

Bamako is seeking to become a new mining center of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

Mauritania
New mines minister

In a partial government shuffle in Nouakchott this weekend, Taleb [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.02.2011

Ivory Coast
Bedie camp covets BCEAO top slot

Booted out as governor of the West African Central Bank (BCEAO) during the 15th summit of the West African Monetary [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Ivory Coast
Freemasons keep even lower profile

The Grand Lodge of Ivory Coast does not know which political master to answer to, and is also in crisis internally.

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Ivory Coast
Gbagbo and Ouattara fight over cocoa

Alassane Ouattara has been attempting to starve Laurent Gbagbo’s regime by blocking cocoa exports but Gbagbo is fighting a determined rear-guard action.

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Benin
Houngbedji deploys old guard

For what should be his last presidential campaign, Adrien Houngbedji has wheeled out an army of old political allies. Will they deliver the goods?

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Togo
Sassou's free advice to Masons

A true connoisseur in matters of Freemasonry, Congo's president has become a one-man mediation service for Lodges all over Africa.

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Benin, Congo
Sassou steps in

During a visit to Benin, Denis Sassou-Nguesso met Mathieu Kerekou [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Ivory Coast
Gbagbo’s officer buys weapons in Beijing

A colonel close to Laurent Gbagbo is understood to have [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Ivory Coast
Nouvelle Air Ivoire enters turbulent zone

Businessman Bernard Kone Dossongui's airline Nouvelle Air Ivoire is in [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

Ivory Coast
Sea Invest acquires Abinader’s assets in Ivory Coast

Roger Abinader, the Ivorian-Lebanese businessman, has his abandoned factory at [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

Benin, Morocco
Maroc Telecom buys Benin Telecom

After Mali's Sotelma and Burkina Faso's Onatel, Maroc Telecom, a [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

Guinea
Bollore calls into Conakry

Vincent Bolloré made a low-key visit to Conakry at the [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

Ivory Coast
International Protector active in Abidjan

An Israeli company that specialises in the fight against terrorism, [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

Senegal
AFD loves Senelec

The Agence française de developpement (AFD) has decided to grant [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

Ivory Coast
ALBERT MEVA (Simplex)

Cameroonian Albert Meva, who is married to Simone Gbagbo’s daughter [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2011

Guinea
Ray Leonard

The chief executive of Texas-based Hyperdynamics which is active in Guinea’s offshore, Ray Leonard, will shortly join American Friends of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Nigeria
Kingsley Kuku

Nigeria’s president has finally chosen Kingsley Kuku as his special adviser for the Niger Delta region in the place of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Nigeria
Hart Group

The British accountancy firm Hart Group, based in Aylesbury and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Nigeria
Diezani Alison-Madueke

Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria's oil resources minister, and her energy counterpart, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

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