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West Africa

Guinea
Conakry Targets Ex-Ministers for Mines

Captain Moussa Dadis Camara’s military junta is planning to take [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.03.2009

Senegal
Sabodala Inauguration Soon

The Sabodala mine in Senegal is due cast its first [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.03.2009

Nigeria
Chevron Holds Up Projects

The American major Chevron has been forced to delay three major projects in Nigeria. In its annual filing to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Mauritania
Max de Vietri Throws in Towel

The problems dogging Baraka Petroleum has pushed its founder, Max de Vietri, to quit the firm.

Free access Energy 10.03.2009

Ivory Coast
IFC Retreats from Ties with Afren

A stakeholder on block CI11, the International Finance Corp has found itself a partner on the acreage with Afren, a company it helps to finance. That situation is to end.

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Algeria, Nigeria
TSGP Undermined by Rivalry

The project for a Trans Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP), which won fresh credibility when the French major Total recently showed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Nigeria, United Kingdom
Nick Johnson

Director of exploration and production for the British junior Afren since September, 2005, British geologist Nick Johnson resigned from the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Nigeria
Bello Suleiman

A long-standing kingpin in Nigeria’s electricity industry, Bello Suleiman, was fired as executive vice chairman of the Nigerian utility Power [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Nigeria
Power Holding Co. of Nigeria

According to Rilwan Babolola, Nigeria’s new energy minister, the Power [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Ghana | Accra
Correction

Contrary to what Africa Energy Intelligence reported in its last [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Sierra Leone
Unpaid Bills

It was based in Las Vegas and its story rather [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Nigeria, Tunisia
Barclays

The natural resources division of Britain's Barclays bank has just [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Nigeria, Saudi Arabia | Riyadh?
Rilwanu Lukman

Rilwanu Lukman, Nigeria's oil minister, was in the Saudi capital [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2009

Burkina Faso
Manganese Bankable at last?

Manganese mining at Tambaois once again on the agenda. The grading of this deposit in Burkina Faso is high at [...]

Free access Mining 03.03.2009

Guinea
Changing Faces at Alcoa and Rio Tinto Alcan

As the financial crisis bites the major mining groups are reshuffling their management teams in Guinea. According to our information, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Burkina Faso
Sharp Rise in Gold Production in 2009

Burkina Faso’s gold production is expected to triple or even quadruple over the next two years. In 2008 exports reached [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Guinea
Victor Kubiak

Victor Kubiak of Sweden has joined forces with Elhadj Bouna Kéïta, a member of the Conseil National pour la Démocratie [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Nigeria, South Africa
Wendy Ngenga

The founder of the South African mining company Aphrodeitis Mining has been elected a member of the new Joint Presidential [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Liberia
Alexey Mordashov

Present for around a year in the region of the Mano River, the boss of the Russian group Severstal went [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Liberia
Oswell Munyanyambe

Oswell Munyanyambe, the general secretary of the Mine Workers Union of Zambia is to convene a meeting soon to decide [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Mali
Bamako, 03-06/11 2009

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

Free access Mining 03.03.2009

Ghana
Newmont Throws in Towel at Akyem

Slated to restart last year, Newmont Mining Corp’s Akyem gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Guinea | Conakry
Step towards Resolving RusAl Tax Dispute

The representative of RusAl in Guinea, Alexandre Dedkowsky, was auditioned [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Ivory Coast
Etruscan Financed by Russian Businessman

Etruscan Resources has just closed the first tranche of its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Nigeria | Abuja
Gary Jenneman

Gary Jenneman, a scientist at ConocoPhilips who is in charge [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

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