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West Africa

Guinea
Private Firm Bypasses Beijing in Guinea

The new Guinean minister for mines and energy, Mahmoud Thiam, formerly a senior vice-president of UBS Bank in the United [...]

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Guinea
Al Hassan Onipogui

A former inspector-general for mines who is very close to Guinea’s new leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, Al-Hassan Onipogui has [...]

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Guinea
Laye Keïra

The new "mining team" in Conakry is growing in the wake of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara’s coup d’état on December [...]

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Guinea
Maria Spiliopoulos

This vice president of the Canadian company Hubble Holdings is said to have obtained gold research permits at Siguiri, the [...]

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Nigeria
Diezani Alison-Madueke

The minister for mines and steel development is considering a new strategy to obtain funding to revive the defunct iron [...]

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Niger
Niamey, 24-26/02 2009

The Niger Chamber of Commerce for agriculture and industry and ITE Group are organising the second "Mining, Petroleum & Telecommunications [...]

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Benin
Niger Ore Still Transiting Through Benin Port

The presidents of Benin, Yayi Boni, and of Niger, Mamadou [...]

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Togo
Togo Phosphates May Lay Off 600 Workers

The Société Nouvelle des Phosphates du Togo (SNPT) may soon [...]

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Guinea
Financing Approaches for Hidalgo Mining International

Mark Daniel Klok, chairman of Hidalgo Mining International, a company [...]

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Ghana
Central African Gold Puts Business on Hold

Central African Gold (CAG), listed on the London Alternative Investment [...]

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Sierra Leone
8 Investments Gambles- and Loses

Present in Sierra Leone’s offshore since 2003, the Las Vegas company 8 Investments has seen its stakes pre-empted by its partner, Elixir Petroleum.

Free access Energy 13.01.2009

Guinea
Reshuffling the Deck

The bloodless putsch at Christmas could spell changes in the oil sector.

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Ghana
Feverish Plans for Jubilee

An announcement by Kosmos and Tullow Oil that gas will start flowing from the Jubilee field in 2011 has fuelled plans for the construction of power plants and a petrochemical complex.

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Nigeria
Shortage of Gas for Power Plants

Officials in Nigeria’s power sector are putting their money on diversifying sources at a time when several stations suffer from a shortage of fuel.

Subscribers only Energy 13.01.2009

Ghana
Richard Kwame Peprah

In early January, Ghana’s new president, John Atta-Mills, named Richard Kwame Peprah as chairman of the energy sub-committee that will [...]

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Nigeria
Chief Ufot Ekaette

Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua seized the occasion of a major government reshuffle at the end of last year to create [...]

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Nigeria
NNPC

The gigantic project to build a Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline between [...]

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Ghana
Extending the EEZ?

Ghana’s energy ministry announced in late December that it wished [...]

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Nigeria | Abuja
Work Resumes on Escravos Terminal

The U.S. group Chevron announced on Jan. 1 that it [...]

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Nigeria | Abuja
Flex LNG Backs Away

Although it was approved by the Nigerian authorities in November, [...]

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Ghana
Pre-Production Lectures

Seizing the occasion of a change in Ghana’s government, leading [...]

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Nigeria
Epilogue to Wilbros Probe

The Justice Department’s Criminal Division has wound up an investigation [...]

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Guinea
Kabiné Komara

This finance ministry inspector, who recently worked within the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Cairo, was appointed as prime minister [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2009

Burkina Faso
Don Whalen

High River Gold Mines, which is still facing financial difficulties, is now confronted with the resignation of its two executive [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2009

Niger
Niamey, 24-26/02 2009

The Niger Chamber of Commerce for agriculture and industry and ITE Group are organising the second "Mining, Petroleum & Telecommunications [...]

Free access Mining 06.01.2009

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