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West Africa

Guinea
Batax’s Diamond Deal Looks Dead in Water

A ban that has prevented Batax Bouna International Mining Corp. from operating ever since it acquired the industrial diamond group [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.11.2010

Sierra Leone
Sunergy Seeks Funding for Rare Earth Project

Sunergy Inc will begin doing the rounds of potential investors and banks in coming weeks to drum up finance for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.11.2010

Burkina Faso
Development Work to Resume on Perkoa

Thanks to a partnership it formed with Glencore International in August, Nantou Mining will be able to continue building a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.11.2010

Mauritania
Drake Resources Grabs New Licenses in Mauritania

Confined mainly to gold exploration projects in Sweden and Australia [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.11.2010

Spotlight | Africa, France
French diplomats all a-jitter

Their morale in their moccasins, French diplomats are anxiously awaiting the government's mid-November reshuffle to find out who will be in charge of France's foreign policy. As far as African policy-making is concerned, Bernard Kouchner's successor, whoever he or she [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.10.2010

Ivory Coast
French Socialists love Gbagbo again

On the eve of Ivory Coast's presidential elections, Laurent Gbagbo is once again firmly in with the French Socialists, his [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.10.2010

Ivory Coast
Constitutional council’s partiality issues

The institution that has ultimate say in validating the results of the presidential election seems to be totally on the side of the incumbent.

Subscribers only Politics 27.10.2010

Togo
Faure still rules the army

Eighteen months after the arrest of his half-brother Kpatcha, the Togolese president is pursuing his thorough reform of the army. West Africa Newsletter investigates.

Subscribers only Politics 27.10.2010

Equatorial Guinea
Obiang court case

A lawsuit for defamation filed by President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.10.2010

Ivory Coast
BNP Paribas' busy boss

When Jean-Francois Fichaux recently took up his position as Africa [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2010

Benin
Bell Benin's bitter Orange deal

Politics seems to be getting in the way of the [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2010

Africa
Bollore and Maersk rule the ports

Having won a 25-year concession for the port of Monrovia, [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2010

Ivory Coast
Trafigura and the affair Probo Koala: Chapter Two

According to our information, the Paris law firm Bourdon-Voituriez-Burget has [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2010

Benin
Gemalto wins Benin contract

Contracted to work on Ivory Coast’s and Togo’s presidential and [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2010

Burkina Faso
Planor loses against Etisalat

The company Planor Afrique, owned by Burkinabe Apollinaire Compaore, lost [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2010

Ivory Coast
CONRAD GBAGUIDI (MGT Conseils)

Franco-Beninese Conrad Gbaguidi has launched his corporate intelligence agency MGT-Conseils [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.10.2010

Ivory Coast
Fresh Push for Soubre Dam

Campaigning for re-election in Lower Sassandra province in south-west Ivory Coast, president Laurent Gbago has ordered mines and energy minister [...]