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West Africa

Equatorial Guinea
An Outsider Tries its Luck in Mining

Long closed to mining companies for want of attractive legislation in the sector, Equatorial Guinea may well be modifying its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.06.2010

Guinea
Ex Football Star in Bauxite Play

According to our sources, the International Mining Development (IMD) company represented by former football star Seydouba Bangoura is in talks [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.06.2010

Mauritania
OSEAD Jumps on Uranium Bandwagon

Morocco is once again proving to be a springboard for investing in Mauritania. Active in the mining sector in Morocco [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.06.2010

Guinea
Scramble for Uranium Rights

Spurred on by promising results of Forte Energy, operator of the Firawa uranium project in Guinea, juniors are bombarding the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.06.2010

Sierra Leone
Timis in Talks with Chinese

On the heels of an agreement it penned in April [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.06.2010

Guinea
Konate To Make Peace with Moscow

Relations between Guinea's government and RusAl may be taking a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.06.2010

Nigeria
Rockson the King-Maker?

During his tour of the Niger Delta region, Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the 100 MW Trans Amadi power station [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Nigeria
Austin Oniwon

The dismissal of Shehu Ladan as group general manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) by Nigeria’s new president, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Mauritania
Adam Salem Ould Tekrour

Mauritania’s new oil and mines minister, Wane Ibrahima Lamine, has just named a new team of leading executives to take [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Nigeria
Leslie Blair

The small American company ERHC named a former boss of Addax Nigeria, Leslie Blair, to its board in early May. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Equatorial Guinea
GEPetrol

Equatorial Guinea’s state-run oil company, GEPetrol, has joined forces with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Mauritania
An Ex Minister Says it All

As Africa Energy Intelligence has reported on numerous occasions (numbers [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Mauritania | Nouakchott
A New Stab at Offshore Exploration

After four years in which no wells were drilled in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Nigeria | Abuja
Shell Invests to Avoid Flaring

The oil majors operating in the Niger Delta region are [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Mauritania
Dechert

Stephane Alamowitch, a partner of the Dechert law firm, advised [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Nigeria | Nice
Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president, will be a major center [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.2010

Mauritania | IRON
New Minerals port in 2012 at Nouadhibou

After years on the drawing board, a project for a new minerals port at Nouadhibou will see the light of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Mali
From Scrap Metals to Iron Ore

Active up to now in the scrap metals business in Sierra Leone, Gambia and Senegal, Sandeep Garg & Co has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Guinea, Russia
Yakov Itskov

The head of the international alumina arm of the RusAl group, Yakov Itskov, will be taking a very close interest [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Nigeria
Abuja, 25-27/05

The International Mining Investm ent conference and Exhibition on Nigeria 2010 will be held in the Nigerian capital between May [...]

Free access Mining 25.05.2010

Guinea
Pantchenko's New Banking Career

RusAl’s former representative in Guinea (2000-2007) and ex-boss of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Guinea
Chinese Put Money on Bellzone

A strong leg-up for Bellzone Mining. After floating on AIM [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Burkina Faso
High River Gold Mines operates Bissa Zandkom

We mistakenly reported in our last issue (AMI 227) that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou
One-Stop Mining Agency Under Study

Burkina Faso is to set up a one-stop mining gency [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Nigeria | Port Harcourt
Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president, won strong backing from most [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

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