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West Africa

Niger
Business as Usual or Will Fear Prevail?

A number of "assaults" by Tuareg rebels from the Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) against foreign mining interests [...]

Free access Mining 17.07.2007

Guinea
Souapiti Dam: Beijing Gets Way With Package

As they did with the Belinga iron mine in Gabon the Chinese got their way in Guinea's bauxite sector after [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.07.2007

Ivory Coast
South Koreans Push for Mining Rights

Korea Resources Corp sent a team of leading executives to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.07.2007

Nigeria
Airborne Mining Survey

The mining services company Fugro has won a EUR 16.6 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.07.2007

Guinea
Chinese Partner

China’s deputy foreign minister, Zhai Jin, is in Conakry this week with a delegation from the Export Import Bank of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.2007

Nigeria
Shell-Trained Ministers

If the list of potential oil ministers submitted by Nigeria’s new president, Umaru Yar’Adua, to the Senate is anything to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.2007

Nigeria
Local Firms in Exploration Drive

Several Nigerian companies are endeavouring to explore different fields in an area that once formed OML 56 operated by Elf, now part of Total.

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.2007

Algeria, Nigeria
Funding Sought for Pipeline

Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil and the head of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources, Tony Chukwueke, chaired a meeting at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.2007

Equatorial Guinea
New Find for Noble Energy

The U.S. firm Noble Energy made a new discovery on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.2007

Nigeria | Sovereign Energy
Oriental’s Adviser

Founded by Joseph Bruso, former vice president of United Meridian, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.2007

Burkina Faso
New Owner for Tambao Manganese

Australian businessman Michael Kiernan is fighting at present to regain control of the Australian manganese producer Consolidated Minerals (ConsMin) which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2007

Ghana
Joseph Henry Mensah

A former Ghanaian finance and economic planning minister as well as a former senior government minister, Joseph Henry Mensaw, has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2007

Sierra Leone
West African Soon to Begin Producing in Sierra Leone

West African Diamonds, a firm owned by John Teeling, plans [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2007

Guinea | Conakry
New Consultant Sought to Examine Oil Contracts

Contrary to what had been expected, James Otto, an expert [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2007

Burkina Faso
AUS 75 Million for AIM Resources

The Australian concern AIM Resources has put together AUS 75 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2007

Burkina Faso
Ampella Mining to Float

Ampella Mining hopes to raise AUS 6.5 million (USD 5.46 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2007

Benin
Lafia Sacca

In a government re-shuffle on June 17, president Boni Yayi named one of his close associates, 62-year-old Lafia Sacca, as [...]