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West Africa

Ghana
Newmont to Restart Suspended Project at Akyem

Newmont Mining Corp's Akyem gold development project, on hold for a year and a half, may soon be restarted. The [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.06.2008

Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
Zbigniew Kulik

The development director of Suma Energy Corporation SA, a subsidiary of Warsaw-based Suma Energy Corporation, recently went to Guinea and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.06.2008

Niger
Rebels Kidnap Four Areva Workers in Niger

Rebels from the Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ) on June [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.06.2008

Guinea
Presidency Sends Letter to Rio Tinto

In a bid to avoid what it calls a "freeze" [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.06.2008

Niger
How to Transport Agadem Oil?

After ten months of horse trading and sudden ups-and-downs (AEI 449/457/460, 458), China National Petroleum Corporation finally signed up on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Mauritania
Range Oil Seeks Major Opening

A new Canadian company hopes to win its first concessions in Mauritania.

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Nigeria
Centrica Endorses Akwa Ibom

In conjunction with Norway’s StatoilHydro and the Greek concern Consolidated Contractors International Co (CCC), the British gas group Centrica signed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Nigeria
Floating LNG Plant on Bilabri

Peak Petroleum has teamed up with Mitsubishi after trying to develop its Bilabri gas field with Equator.

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Ghana
GNPC

The Ghana National Petroleum Corp has upwardly revised the amount [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Nigeria
DPR

The director of the Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources, Tony [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Ghana | Accra
Lukoil Invests USD 100 Million

Lukoil Overseas, a subsidiary that Lukoil set up in 2006 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Nigeria | Abuja
Call for Bids to Maintain Power Plant

Shell has just issued an invitation to tender for a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Ivory Coast
Bank of Africa Clarifies

Following our brief on the Ivory Coast’s acquisition of a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Equatorial Guinea
Malabo Forks Up for Devon

According to our sources, the state-run Equatorial Guinea oil company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Liberia
Bong Iron Mines Once Again Up for Grabs

Will the Bong iron mines, formerly operated by German interests, be brought back into service soon? They have been the [...]

Free access Mining 10.06.2008

Nigeria
Chief Ado Ibrahim’s Iron Ore Deal

Chief Ado Ibrahim, the traditional chief of the state of Kogi in Nigeria, who graduated from the Camborne School of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Guinea
Crew’s Gold Reserves at LEFA Rise Above 5 m oz

Drilling campaigns by Crew Gold Corp in 2007 and early 2008 are bearing fruit. The company, based in Surrey in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Guinea | Bauxite
Guinea Prepares Convention for AMC

Ahmed Kante, Guinea’s minister for mines and geology, has created a technical commission to establish the basic convention for the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Guinea
Oumar Babara Touré

The executive secretary of the Chambre des Mines de Guinée, Oumar Babara Touré, has called a meeting of statutory members [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Nigeria
Zhao Shouhe

The managing director of China’s Mining Investment Co spent time in Abuja in late May to look into development opportunities [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Guinea
Saleback of Some BHP Permits in Guinea

The Guinea minister for mines has set up a technical [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Guinea | Conakry
Major Mining Firms Meet

An international conference on Mining and Sustainable Development in Africa [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Togo | Jeddah
Togo Sends Delegation to IDB

Gilbert Bawara, the Togo cooperation minister, travelled to Jeddah in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Guinea | Conakry
GAC Lenders Resort to Charter Flights

Bankers and insurers who travelled to the Boké region to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Guinea
Ahmed Tidjane Souare

The new prime minister of Guinea is Ahmed Tidjane Souare who has replaced Lansana Kouyate who was fired on May [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.06.2008

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