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West Africa

Guinea
Deripaska Defuses RusAl Wrangle

Could the legal wrangle between Guinea and Ruski Alumini (RusAl) be losing its heat? Although Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.09.2009

Guinea
Guinea Commission for Chinese Investments

Following a decree by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara on August 28, a commission is to be set up to coordinate [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.09.2009

Togo
Israel Prospects in Togo

A delegation of representatives of the Israeli armaments industry was [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.09.2009

Guinea, Liberia
Cooperation on Mining With Monrovia

A government delegation from Monrovia led by minister for mines [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.09.2009

Mauritania
Government Calls on ETAP

According to our sources, the new Mauritanian oil minister, Ahmed Ouhd Moulaye Ahmed, is expected to shortly sign a service [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.2009

Mauritania
Ahmed Ould Moulay Ahmed

Recently-elected president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz decided in mid-August to appoint a technocrat, Ahmed Ould Moulay Ahmed, as oil and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.2009

Nigeria
NNPC

The boss of the Nigerian National Petroleum Co (NNPC), Mohammed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.2009

Nigeria
Yar-Adua’s Delta Gambit

After long months of uncertainty about who would sit on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.2009

Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe | Sao Tome
At Last a New Well to be Drilled in JDZ

China's Sinopec, which operates block 2 in the Joint Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.2009

Nigeria | Abuja
Mart’s Partners Default

In dire financial straits itself, the Canadian concern Mart Resources [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.2009

Togo
IFC Invests With Contour

The board of the International Finance Corp., private investment arm [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.2009

Equatorial Guinea | Washington
Micha Ondo Bile

Micha Ondo Bile, foreign minister of Equatorial Guinea, was in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.2009

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

Guinea | GOLD
Aredor’s USD 30 million Entry Ticket

Businessman and politician Elhadj Bouna Keita’s bid to get his hands on the Association pour la Recherche et l’Exploitation du [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

Liberia
George Haddad

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s government is continuing to review the main contracts agreed with previous administrations. The General Auditing Commission (GAC) is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

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 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

Ivory Coast, Mali
Tongon To Produce in 2010

Randgold Resources (quoted on the NYSX and LSX) has begun [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

Sierra Leone | Freetown
Questions Hang Over Sierra Rutile

A year after the accident in which Sierra Rutile’s number [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

Ghana | Accra
New Environment Offensive

After her working visit of the Environment Protection Agency (see [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

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

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

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