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West Africa

Equatorial Guinea
A Family Government

The new Equatorial Guinea government appointed by president Teodoro Obiang Nguema after legislative elections looks very much like a family [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Nigeria
Oil to Fund Mobile Phones

The head of Nigeria's Conoil used oil to guarantee a loan to finance his mobile telephone network.

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Nigeria
Powerful Partner for Cherwayko

Midwestern Oil & Gas, a company controlled by the government of Delta state, has just teamed up with Britain's Mart Resources.

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Nigeria
A State Sells Power to NEPA

Since early this month a private power station in Rivers state has been selling its power to NEPA.

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Ghana
IFC Loan for Takoradi

As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated it would last September (AEI 352), the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Nigeria
U.S. Backing for Standard Trust

The U.S. Export-Import Bank has opened a $30 credit line for Nigeria's Standard Trust Bank headed by businessman Ferdinand Alabraba [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Atanasio Ela Ntugu

Already chief of the state-owned GEPetrol company, Atanasio Ela Ntugu was named oil minister in the new Equatorial Guinea government [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Niels Marquardt

Confirmed by the Senate last week, Niels Marquardt will be the next American ambassador to Cameroon and U.S. chief of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe | joint development zone
No Concessions Awarded

The latest meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council, a trans-national [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Niger
Mediation Between TG World and CNPC

Engaged in legal proceedings against the government since it was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Nigeria
Delay on Akpo?

According to AEI sources, Total is finding it hard to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Dry Well for ROC

Financed by the U.S. firm Pioneer, Bravo 1, the first [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Nigeria
NEPA to Finish Switching Station

Nigeria's National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) has said it will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Nigeria | wac global services
RoyalDutch/Shell Accused

Contacted by RoyalDutch/Shell in 2003 to assess the impact of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

Mauritania
Edouard Rech

Despite a law banning gambling in Mauritania, Lebanese-born businessman Edouard [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.06.2004

Cape Verde | CPLP
A new Secretary General

Luis Fonseca, the Cape Verde ambassador to the United Nations [...]

Subscribers only 17.06.2004

Guinea
Standoff Between Jonah and Conte

An angry standoff between AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. and Guinea president Lansana Conte began on May 26 when an embargo was [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Guinea
CBG Crisis Talks in Paris

A board meeting of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG) scheduled for Paris on June 17 in the presence of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Mauritania
First Quantum at Guelb Moghrein

Operating in Zambia for a number of years, First Quantum Minerals has taken an option on the Guelb Moghrein copper/gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Sierra Leone
Koidu Starts Work on 2nd Pipe

Koidu Holdings, the company that has been operating Sierra Leone's first industrial diamond mine since early this year, has begun [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Guinea
Anatoly Pantchenko

The representative of Russki Alumini (RusAl) in Guinea and head of its alumina development operations, respectively Anatoly Pantchenko and Andrei [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Ghana
Douglas MacQuarrie

Up to now vice president for exploration of Canada's PMI Ventures Ltd., Douglas MacQuarrie has been named CEO of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Nigeria
TDA Banking on Coal

The U.S. Trade Development Agency will shortly approve funding for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Mauritania
Wadi Al Rawda in Exploration Push

Based in the United Arab Emirates and active in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Ivory Coast
Gbagbo and U.S. Oil Men

Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo has been in the United States since the weekend on a private visit during which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.06.2004

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