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Guinea
Rio Tinto To Let Go of North Simandou?

The Simandou affair is damaging relations between Rio Tinto and the Guinean government. The mining group, which saw the northern [...]

Free access Mining 28.07.2009

Nigeria
Arcelor Mittal Eying Ajaokuta Steel

Lakshmi Mittal, boss of the world's biggest steel maker ArcelorMittal, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

Guinea
High Price for Resuming Siguiri Exports

AngloGold Ashanti was able to resume gold exports from its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

Guinea
New Chinese Protectorate?

Chinese groups active in Angola are turning their attention to Guinea.

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Nigeria
Crude More Profitable than Drugs

The United Nations has compared all illicit trade in West Africa and found that the smuggling of oil is indubitably the most profitable - and most destabilizing - traffic of all.

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Nigeria
But Who Masterminds the Traffic?

Nigeria’s presidential staff has a list of people who back mobs in the Delta. But Abuja hesitates to publish it.

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Niger
Chinese in Niger River Dam Deal

Beijing is already exploring the Agadem oil field and is about to build a dam on the Niger River.

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Guinea
Power Shortage for Junta

Guinea’s leader, who seized power in a putsch, has summoned leading officials in the power sector to explain the increasingly critical electricity situation in the country.

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Guinea
Pasquale Scaturro

An American executive search firm, Preng & Associates Inc., can be credited with seeing Pasquale Scaturro appointed to the board [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Nigeria
A Ministry in the Delta

In coming weeks, the Niger Delta minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Nigeria
Oil Law (Triple Copy)

No less than three versions of the highly controversial Petroleum [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Mauritania
Disturbing Drop in Output on Chinguetti

The latest report of the National Hydrocarbons Monitoring Committee issued [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Ghana
Kosmos Flush with Cash

Although Kosmos Energy has officially put its stake in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Togo
World Bank Doubles Loan

The World Bank has announced a flurry of loans to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Ghana
Slaughter & May

To drum up the funds needed to develop its Jubilee [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Ivory Coast
McFarlanes

The trial pitting Ivory Coast inhabitants against Trafigura, the owner [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Ghana
Citigroup

The American bank is advising India’s state-owned ONGC in its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Guinea
Simandou: Rio Tinto Stymied, Conakry Threatens

The Simandou affair has caused a deep freeze in relations between Rio Tinto and Guinea's government. The mining group, which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

Senegal
Faleme’s Fate Hangs in the Balance

Development at the Faleme iron ore project is to fall behind by several years once again. Snatched from under the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

Liberia
Economic Diplomacy in China

Liberia's vice president Joseph Boakai travelled to China last week at the invitation of his counterpart Xi Jinping to strengthen [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

Guinea
Alpha Oumar Rafiou Barry

This Guinean national has been appointed Director General of Alcoa-Guinea for a period of six years, replacing Ibrahima Danso, who [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

Guinea
Jean Jacques Dupuy

This French geologist has been advising the Guinean minister for mines Mahmoud Thiam for just a short while over recasting [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

Mali
Bamako, 03-06/11

A 13th conference and exhibition on oil, mining and gas trading and finance in Africa will be staged in Bamako [...]

Free access Mining 14.07.2009

Ghana
Ghana Gets Tougher on Environmental Issues

From now on, the Ghanaian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

Guinea
New Plan to Revise Mining Legislation

A commission charged with revising the 1995 Mining Code and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

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