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Ivory Coast
No Manganese Refining for the Moment

Ivory Coast is stepping forward on Africa’s manganese market but has failed for the moment to include a refining facility [...]

Free access Mining 05.10.2010

Guinea
China Hyway: a Highly Political Swap

New Chinese businesses have begun taking positions in Guinea’s mines only a few weeks ahead of the run-off in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.10.2010

Niger
Areva Needs to Revamp Security

A visit by Areva chief executive Anne Lauvergeon to Niger on Sept 30 two weeks after seven of the company’s [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.10.2010

Ivory Coast
Diamond Trade Set for Shake-Up after Elections

Ivory Coast’s government plans to overhaul the country’s diamond business. In recent days it has multiplied contacts with Israeli and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.10.2010

Guinea
Ultimatum for Rio Tinto in Guinea

Rio Tinto, whose affiliate Simfer operates the iron ore project [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.10.2010

Ivory Coast
Belarus Soon to be Rewarded

Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is poised to sign several [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.10.2010

Spotlight | Guinea
Conakry holds its breath

The transition from military regime to civil democracy isn’t always easy. Confusion and divisions within the Guinea’s electoral authority, the CENI, gerrymandering and ethnic violence have tarnished the historic presidential vote in Guinea, whose second round could well take place [.

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Ivory Coast
Unicorn: post-electoral peace force

Despite the closure in June 2009 of the 43th naval infantry battalion (BIMA) in Port Bouet, the French Army hasn’t [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Ivory Coast
Sarkozy's man heads for Ivory Coast

On his upcoming trip to Ivory Coast, Claude Gueant the general secretary of the French president's office, will be accompanied by a plethora of intermediaries, West Africa Newsletter can exclusively reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Ivory Coast
Soro gets chummy with Gbagbo

It is not certain that prime minister will take a sabbatical after Ivory Coast’s presidential elections.

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Senegal
Wade’s statue in court

How the Senegalese president’s architectural work ended up in court in Paris. Exclusive.

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Ivory Coast
Angolan envy

The 92 Angolan soldiers in the Unidade da Guarda Presidencial [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Benin
Benin’s intelligence wars

Colonel N’Dah Bio, the director of intelligence, and an ethnic [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Ivory Coast
Simone plants trees

Ivory Coast’s first lady Simone Gbagbo has been visiting Israel. [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Mali
Algerian tensions

In a sign of troubled relations between Mali and Algeria [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.09.2010

Ivory Coast
Versus Bank’s new chairman

Kouassy Oussou, the chairman of the board of the publicly-owned [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.09.2010

Niger
Epee stays put in Arlit

Under contract to Areva since 2007, the Epee group had [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.09.2010

Senegal
GVG’s Senegal contract cancelled

The partnership agreement between the Public Markets Regulatory Authority (ARMP) [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.09.2010

Ivory Coast
MOHAMED LAMINA FADIKA (New Mining)

The former general officer of Ivory Coast’s national armed forces [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.09.2010

Togo
SOUMOU TCHAMDJA (Interseas)

Former CEO of the Sotonam (Societe Togolaise de Navigation Maritime), [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.09.2010

Nigeria
Kase Lawal

The non-executive chairman of Camac Energy’s board has received a handsome promotion. Kase Lawal, who holds dual American and Nigerian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.2010

Nigeria
Nuhu Ribadu

Only five days after Goodluck Jonathan declared himself a candidate in the presidential election in January, 2011 on his Facebook [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.2010

Nigeria
Goni Musa Sheikh

The secretary-general of Nigeria’s oil resources ministry, Goni Musa Sheikh, won promotion on Sept. 19 by being named Nigeria’s governor [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.2010

West Africa
Erik Solheim

Erik Solheim, Norway's overseas development minister, signed a technical aid [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.2010

Nigeria
Odein Ajumogobia

Odein Ajumogobia, Nigerian's foreign minister, led the Nigerian delegation to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.2010

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