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Guinea
RusAl Case Up for Arbitration in Paris?

Along with the squabble between First Quantum Minerals (FQM) and Congo-K’s government, the arbitration panel at the Chambre de Commerce [...]

Free access Mining 06.04.2010

Burkina Faso
Leaping Into First Rank of Gold Producers

An overhaul of Burkina Faso’s mining sector that began in 2003 has paid off. Gold production in the country doubled [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Guinea
Stellar Shifts into Higher Gear

An affiliate of Mano River Resources, Stellar Diamonds., headed by geologist Karl Smithson and listed on London’s AIM, has acquired [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Guinea
Astra Energy Loses Licenses in Guinea

The authorities in Conakry have withdrawn prospecting licenses from Astra [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Spotlight | Nigeria
Bribes, of Course, But Don’t Name Takers

Ten years after the former marketing director of Technip, Georges Krammer, spilled the beans to French examining magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke, the French oil services company and its partners KBR, JGC and Snamprogretti are only now preparing to pay stiff [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Niger
Oil Industry Unaffected by Coup

The military junta that toppled Niger’s previous president is leaning over backwards to reassure oil and mining companies.

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

West Africa
Qatar in Deal with Total

Qatar Petroleum International plans to acquire holdings in the French major's concessions in West Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Ivory Coast
Gas to Turn the Lights On

Plagued by chronic power cuts, Abidjan has put out a call to Aggreko to install an emergency gas-powered station.

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Nigeria
Murtala Yar'Adua

Traditional chief of Katsina state and elder brother of incapacitated president Umaru Yar’Adua, Murtala Yar’Adua has been asked by acting [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Nigeria
Aliko Dangote

Nigeria’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has lost his job as president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) because of a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Nigeria
NNPC

To brush up Nigeria's image abroad, the communications ministry didn't [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Niger
Nigelec

Ibrahim Foukori, the powerful managing director of Societe Generale d’Electricite [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Guinea
Premier Backs Texans

According to our sources, Guinea’s prime minister, Jean-Marie Dore, has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Nigeria
New Oil Minister from Delta

Well positioned to replace Rilwanu Lukman, Nigeria’s oil minister who [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Mauritania
The World’s Longest Drilling Session

Contrary to reports appearing in the local press, the French [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Nigeria
Goodluck Could Revert to Old Plan

Influenced by his oil minister Rilwanu Lukman, Nigeria’s incapacitated president, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Ghana, Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast to Get More Electricity from Ghana

The first trip of Ivory Coast's for new mines and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

West Africa
A USD 200 Million Grid

At the end of this year the World Bank’s board [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Nigeria
Tony Blair Associates

The lobbying and consulting concern headed by the former British [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Ghana
Societe Generale

The French bank is to take part in a cash [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Niger
Souleymane Mamadou Abba

Appointed to the government of Mahamadou Danda on March 1, the new minister in charge of mines is to become [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.03.2010

Niger
Mahamadou Laouel Kader

The man the French nuclear group has enlisted to take charge of its policy in Niger has wide experience of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.03.2010

Guinea
Abdoulaye Yero Balde

In a letter sent March 15 by the director of the Guinea Alumina Corp (GAC), Mamady Youla, GAC’s project director, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.03.2010

Senegal
Dakar, 12-15/04

The Méridien Président hotel in Dakar will host the Salon International des Mines (SIM) on April 12 to 15 2010. [...]

Free access Mining 23.03.2010

Niger
Niamey, 10-12/05

Minepec, the conference-exhibition on mining and oil potential in Niger, will be held in Niamey from May 10 to 12 [...]

Free access Mining 23.03.2010

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