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Mauritania
SNIM Looks at Scrap Metal Business

The management of Mauritania's Societe Nationale Industrielle et Miniere (SNIM), which is very much a state within a state, is [...]

Free access Mining 30.11.2010

Ivory Coast
Resolute Mining Lands Six Licenses

Resolute Mining (RML) has taken its third key step in West Africa. The Australian group, which operates two gold mines [...]

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Mauritania
Reguibat Ridge: ORGM Seeks Ashton Copy-Cats

Encouraged by the recent acquisition of the Tasiast gold mine by the Canadian giant Kinross, the Office Mauritanien de Recherches [...]

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Mauritania
MSS Lays on Security for Mauritanian Mines

Present on Mauritania's security market since 2005, MSS (Mauritano-Suisse de [...]

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Ghana
Goldplat Shifts into Key Position in Ghana

Goldplat has acquired rights on the Banka mining concession in [...]

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Guinea
Mining Output Climbing

According to economic and financial statistics drawn up by a [...]

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Ivory Coast
Re-Activating the Mano River Committee

Ivory Coast is about to re-activate the mines committee for [...]

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Burkina Faso
Bollore Builds Up Mining Tie

France's Bolloré group is increasing its involvement in the booming [...]

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Spotlight | Africa, France
"Ill-gotten gains" inquiry stirs fears

The mood is not exactly euphoric in the Franco-African business world, which fears reprisals following the November 9 ruling by the Cour de Cassation, France's supreme court, giving the go-ahead for a judicial inquiry into how properties, cars and bank [.

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Ivory Coast
Sponsors give generously

No expense has been spared in the run up to the second round of Ivory Coast’s presidential election on November [...]

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Ivory Coast
PDCI thinks post-Bedie

After Henri Konan Bedie’s defeat in the first round of the presidential election, the PDCI is looking for a successor to lead the party. There is no shortage of candidates, and an “anyone-but-a-Baoule” camp is already emerging.

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Burkina Faso
Compaore's little brother comes to fore

Blaise Compaore's brother Francois has been very involved in the presidential campaign and could have a say in who becomes the country's next prime minister.

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Senegal
Wade’s virtual air force

Gorgui is interested in one of the two presidential A319 being sold by France, but negotiations have stalled over the sky-high asking price.

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Ivory Coast
Simplex-CI supports Gbagbo

The communication campaign of presidential hopeful Laurent Gbagbo is in [...]

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Africa
Societe Generale bursts with optimism

In an internal report written mid-October that West Africa Newsletter [...]

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Liberia
DLH targeted by NGOs

The conclusions of a preliminary investigation by French police into [...]

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Equatorial Guinea
Ophir Seeks Regional Outlets

South Africa’s Ophir claims to have enough reserves to supply a second liquefaction train on Bioko island. But Malabo won’t pay the high price it is asking.