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Mauritania
Local Firms Turn Their Hand to Mines

Lured by the boom in mining - the first conference on Mauritania’s mines industry was held in Nouakchott between Nov. [...]

Free access Mining 16.11.2010

Guinea-Bissau
Angola Pulls Strings in Bauxite Drive

Luanda has confirmed its interest in developing the Boe bauxite mine in Guinea Bissau. Angolan geology and mines minister Joaquin [...]

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Senegal
Alliance Could Be in Cards for MDL and Oromin

A shake-up in the gold assets of Mineral Deposits (MDL, which recently floated a new company, Teranga Gold Corp, in [...]

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Mauritania
How SNIM Adapts to Market Shifts

The world's eighth-ranking iron ore producer, Mauritania's Societe Nationale Industrielle et Miniere (SNIM), is fighting on several fronts to retain [...]

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Mauritania
Phosphate Scheme Gathers Momentum

The state-owned iron ore producer SNIM has won control of the Bofal phosphate mine that belonged to Sophosma, a joint [...]

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Burkina Faso
Francois Ouedraogo

Former Burkina Faso minister for energy and mines (1992-93), Francois Ouedraogo works as a go-between for foreign companies keen on [...]

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Ivory Coast
Frederic Lafont

A businessman with dual French and Ivory Coast citizenship, Frederic Lafont had a front row seat of sorts on Nov. [...]

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Guinea
Adonis Pouroulis

The executive chairman of Petra Diamonds, Adonis Pouroulis, has debuted in Guinea. Last month he founded a company under Guinean [...]

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Guinea
Conakry, 22-24/02/11

AME Trade which organized Mauritania’s first mining conference last week, is to stage a "Guinea Mines Symposium" 2011 between Feb. [...]

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Guinea
Mahmoud Thiam Embarks on Road Show

Guinea's mines minister, Mahmoud Thiam, was in Madagascar and Dubai [...]

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Mauritania
Mauritania’s Millionth Map

Mauritania's brand new geological map on a one-millionth scale was [...]

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Niger
Niger Forum Put Back

The organizers of the Niger Mining Forum that was scheduled [...]

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Ivory Coast | Abidjan
Newcrest Brushes Up its Communication

A former boss of Ivory Coast's intelligence agency between December [...]

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Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou
New Statement on Mining Policy

In addition to a forthcoming revamp of its mining code, [...]

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Guinea
AFD Backs Overhaul of Guinean Code

The French firm Sofreco has been retained by Guinea’s government [...]

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Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Gbagbo and Ouattara face off

Ironically, the supporters of the PDCI (Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire) will determine who becomes the next president of Ivory Coast, but it will not be their candidate, Henri Konan Bedie, who came third with just 25,24% of the vote [.

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Ivory Coast
Simone also looks to the future

While heavily involved in Ivory Coast’s ongoing presidential elections, Simone Gbagbo, the wife of outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo and vice-president [...]

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Niger
Junta washes whiter with Cisse

Interior Minister Ousmane Cisse was behind the recent arrest of Abdoulaye Badie, the military junta's number two, an incident which puts the spotlight on disagreement over Areva’s place in Niger.

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Equatorial Guinea
Party for Obiang’s son

The champagne flowed at the August 3 Hotel in Malabo, [...]

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Benin
Boni Yayi’s plane proposal

Benin’s Defence Minister Issifou Kogui N’Douro contacted businessman Martin Rodrigues, [...]

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Ivory Coast
Startimes waits for authorisation from Ivory Coast

Chinese multimedia group Startimes, headed by Ching Jing Pang, is [...]

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Ivory Coast
DMD, the toast of Abidjan

Pierre de Groote, head of the Domaine Montariol Degroote (DMD), [...]

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Guinea
DCI-Navfco and Civipol study Gulf of Guinea security

France’s DCI-Navfco and Civipol will study maritime security in the [...]

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Ivory Coast
JEAN-BAPTISTE AURLUS GOLLY (JBS Stratcom)

The founder of the consultancy JBS Stratcom, Jean-Baptiste Aurlus Golly [...]

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Equatorial Guinea
ROGER PEREIRA (PAC International)

Congolese-Cabindan Roger Pereira, ex-president Pascal Lissouba’s former head of protocol, [...]

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