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Liberia
Reassuring Words from Chinese on Bong Iron

China's businessmen mounted a major charm offensive in Monrovia in late April. A 40-member delegation led by deputy trade minister [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Guinea
A Trans-Guinea Railway for Passengers Only

Questions are being raised over whether Jean Marie Dore 's government has laid the once sacred Transuineen railway project to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Ivory Coast
Tata Steel Starts Work in West

Yacouba and We masks were part of the colorful backdrop to the official inauguration of Tata Steel’s exploration work and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Ghana
Newmont Sets Up Fund for Community

Coming regularly under fire from NGOs, Newmont Ghana Gold has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Burkina Faso
Phosphates as Key Back-Up for Cotton Industry

Faced with runaway rises in the price of fertilizer, which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Niger
Non-Recourse Financing for Somair

The Societe des Mines de l’Air, an affiliate of France’s [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Senegal
A BinLadin Refinery for Region

Saudi Arabia's BinLadin Group is bidding to acquire a 34% holding in the Dakar refinery which could pick up new contracts to supply oil products in the region.

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Equatorial Guinea
Total’s Monopoly Under Threat?

A refinery project could well undercut Total’s positions in Equatorial Guinea. The French group imports and distributes all of the country’s gasoline.

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Mali, Nigeria
TSGP: Bamako Woos Abuja

A delegation from Mali led by mines minister Abou Bacar Traore and Mamadou Simpara, director of the l’Autorite pour la [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Nigeria
Alstom Top Dog in Port Harcourt

France’s Alstom group has entirely fitted out Shell’s Afam power plant in Port Harcourt and has just landed a new contract for a turbine in the city.

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Nigeria
ABC Orjiako

Maurel & Prom has appointed its Nigerian partner, Ambrosie Bryant Chukwueloka (ABC) Orjiako, to its board in Paris. One of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Nigeria
Godsday Orubebe

Unlike the majority of his cabinet colleagues, the minister in charge of the Delta region, Godsday Orubebe, retained his post [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Nigeria
Deziani Allison-Madueke

Named oil minister last month (AEI 626), Deziani Allison-Madueke belongs to a particularly well connected family in leading circles in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Ghana
GNPC

During a visit to Accra on April 18, the chief [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Nigeria
PHCN

Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, will next month personally unveil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Nigeria
Abuja Strapped for Cash

In mid-April acting president Goodluck Jonathan launched a sweeping review [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Ivory Coast
Globeleq Invest in Azito

Britain's Globeleq Generation. has acquired the 32.85% stake that Electricite [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Ivory Coast
Boost for Rialto’s Stock

The announcement of a partnership between Australia’s Rialto Energy and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Guinea
Hyperdyamics Raises Cash

The Texas-based Hyperdynamics company is to shortly issue 8,076,925 new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Nigeria
Jacques Marraud des Grottes

Jacques Marraud des Grottes, the vice president of French major [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.2010

Mauritania
Xu Siwei

An offensive by the China Minmetals Corp in Africa’s iron ore sector is gaining momentum (AMI 214). Anxious to diversify [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.04.2010

Senegal
Abdoul Aziz Sy

A geological engineer and Randgold Resources’ former country and exploration manager in Senegal, Abdul Aziz Sy was named vice president [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.04.2010

Niger
Ahmed Mai Ousmane

The putsch that swept president Mamadou Tandja from power on Feb. 18 has led to a radical overhaul of top [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.04.2010

Burkina Faso
Elie Ouedraogo

The managing director of the Societe d’Exploitation Miniere d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Semafo-Burkina SA) is currently engaged in a USD 9.2 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.04.2010

Sierra Leone
Former Australian TV Presenter in Mines Play

A company incorporated in Cyprus, Africa Inc., could shortly be [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.04.2010

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