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West Africa

Mauritania
Pathok Chodiev Looks at Iron Ore

The visit by Patrick Balkany, deputy mayor of Paris suburb Levallois-Perret and a close friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Guinea
Karim Karjian Warns of Alumina Delay

Despite the international financial crisis and increasingly difficult operating conditions in Guinea, the U.S.-owned Guinea Alumina Corp (GAC) is pursuing [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Guinea
Ron Renton

This interim director of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) is to begin a cost cutting programme following resolutions adopted [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Guinea
SAG Gold Exports May Be Restarted

The board of Société Aurifère de Guinée (SAG, a subsidiary [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Guinea
Guinean Junta goes to Paris

The Conseil national pour la démocratie et le développement (CNDD), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Burkina Faso
Semafo Issuing USD 40 million in Bonds

Semafo (Toronto Stock Exchange) is planning to raise UDS 40.5 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

DRC, Ghana
Lundin Bid Takes Firm into Ituri Gold

The Canadian firm Red Back Mining Inc, part of Lundin [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Nigeria
World Bank Grant for Helping Small-Scale Miners

Nigeria’s Mines and Steel Development Ministry is expecting to receive [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Mauritania
Petronas Soon to Face Ban?

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that all of the production sharing contracts of Petronas, the lone oil producer in the country, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Guinea
Prism to Size Up Potential

Guinea’s new government has called on a seismic data assessment company to evaluate the country’s potential.

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Nigeria
A Field for Sonatrach

Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil said on June 6 that he would shortly sign an inter-government agreement with his Nigerian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

West Africa
BIDC’s High Risk Projects

West Africa’s Banque d’Investissement et de Developpement is planning to invest in gas-fired power stations but supply for them remains uncertain.

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Togo
Green Light for ContourGlobal

The renovation of the Lome power station by the U.S. firm ContourGlobal now seems firmly on track. According to our [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

West Africa
India Subsidizes its Firms

India’s overseas development program had put up USD 500 million for power interconnections in Africa on condition they be installed by Indian groups.

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Ghana
Nana Asafo Adjaye

Ghana’s new president, John Atta Mills, is continuing to appoint former colleagues from the time of president Jerry Rawlings, to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Guinea
Mahmoud Thiam

The minister in charge of mines on the staff of Guinea’s president, Mahmoud Thiam is involving himself increasingly in energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Nigeria
NNPC

A new stage in the energy partnership between Germany and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Nigeria
Shell Eyes Return to Ogoni

RoyalDutch/Shell has been pressing the Nigerian government to let it [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Mauritania | Nouakchott
A Social Sciences Degree for de Vietri

The man who discovered oil in Mauritania, Australia's Max de [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Nigeria
Goodworks International

Helped to establish itself in Nigeria by GoodsWorks International, a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Nigeria | Houston
Labode Akinosho

Labode Akinosho, the chief operating officer of the private Nigerian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Guinea
Laye Keira

The boss of the Direction Générale de Fonds de Développement et Promotion Miniers, Laye Keira, restarted geological research with its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2009

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 02.06.2009

Guinea
Conakry

The dispute between Guinea and RusAl, over the terms under [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2009

Burkina Faso
IFC Supports Gryphon Minerals

Gryphon Minerals, which is to develop the AUD 12 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2009

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