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West Africa

Burkina Faso
Chill Between Managem & Semafo

Relations between Canada's Semafo and its biggest shareholder, the Moroccan firm Managem (ONA group), which work together both in exploring [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.01.2005

Sierra Leone
Kiernan Family in Bauxite Push

Ireland's Kiernan family, which has long been active in gold in Ghana (AMI 59), is now moving into bauxite exploration [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.01.2005

Liberia
Question Mark over Nimba Iron

The iron deposits in the Nimba mountains which once accounted for half of Liberia's revenue have whet a lot of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.01.2005

Burkina Faso
Goldbelt Resources

Goldbelt Resources has completed a drilling program in the southern [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.01.2005

Guinea
Key Meeting for GlobAl

Guinea's government will meet with officials from Global Alumina (GlobAl) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.01.2005

Guinea
Alcoa Again Postpones Audit

Alcoa World Aluminum has asked that an audit of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.01.2005

Nigeria
New Contract for Halliburton

The investigation into bribes paid in Nigeria by the Halliburton affiliate KBR hasn't prevented the American group from winning the contract to build Chevron's GTL plant at Escravos.

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
Kosmos & Its Partners

The U.S. firm Kosmos has finally teamed up with prince Arthur Eze and has named Adebayo Oguniesi, financial adviser to the Nigerian government, to its board.

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
A Fourth LNG Plant

With three LNG plants already up and running or planned - NLNG, Brass LNG and Nwa-Doro - Nigeria is talking with Chevron and BG on building a fourth in the Niger Delta.

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Gambia
Kuwaiti Group to Run NAWEC

An international Kuwaiti group, Kharafi Holdings, has won the management contract for Gambia's power and water utility NAWEC.

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
Khatami Follows Up Farab Deal

Last week's visit to Nigeria by Iranian president Mohammed Khatami followed the signing of a memorandum of understanding in December [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Ghana
Norwegian Loan

Norway has lent $30 million to Ghana's government to help it restructure the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). As part [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
Tracking Down Abacha's Stash

The arrest of Abba Abacha, the second son of former Nigerian leader Sani Abacha, by the police in Germany in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
Deal on Akpo

One of the main cases of back-in rights - rights that allow NNPC to pre-empt shares in Nigeria's offshore -appears [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
Petronas Strikes Oil

Active on the Agadem block in south-east Niger since 2002, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
New Find on Usan

Total has made a fifth discovery on the Usan field [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
Consortium Formed on Aje

Inventor of a new GTL conversion system (see our article [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria | NNPC
Bickering with Agip

Italy's Agip, an affiliate of ENI, is currently fighting with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Nigeria
Transparency in the Nigerian Economy

The British firm Clearwater Research Service is organizing a conference [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Equatorial Guinea
Oil & Gas in Equatorial Guinea

The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Kuala Lumpur [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.01.2005

Guinea
Who Controls Boke-Gaoual's Bauxite?

Halco Mining Inc., the joint venture between Alcoa and Alcan which controls 51% of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinea (CGB) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.01.2005

Sierra Leone
Alrosa Looks at Several Projects

Alrosa is examining a whole range of possible diamond exploration projects in Sierra Leone. The Russian group's boss, Alexander Nichiporuk, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.01.2005

Guinea
Unrest in Fria

One person was killed in clashes between police and demonstrators [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.01.2005

Guinea
Making it Up with Ghana?

Guinea's prime minister, Cellou Dalein Diallo, travelled to Accra on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.01.2005

Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe
Cluff Gold Buys Back Former Assets

Cluff Gold Plc has completed the acquisition of the gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.01.2005

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