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West Africa

Senegal
Stalemate on Sabodala

Mining companies bidding to acquire the Sabodala gold deposit in Senegal are to submit their final offers this week. But [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.01.2004

Sierra Leone
Walter Kansteiner

The former U.S. under secretary of state for African affairs, Walter Kansteiner, who is shortly to be replaced by Constance [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.01.2004

Nigeria
New Tender for Alscon

After a number of abortive attempts, a new invitation to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.01.2004

Nigeria
Major Loan for Mining Industry

The Nigerian government has been awarded a $75 million loan [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.01.2004

Mauritania
African Lion Buys into Sphere

The international investment fund African Lion Group has just acquired [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.01.2004

Nigeria
Funding for 3 Power Stations

Money for three BOT projects that Nigeria signed a year ago with Siemens and two Chinese groups has been cobbled together.

Subscribers only Energy 13.01.2004

Nigeria
Centralizing the Debt

The Debt Management Office in Nigeria's finance ministry has been asked to manage the debts of all state-owned Nigerian firms, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.01.2004

Ivory Coast
Mathieu Kadio Morokro

Contrary to what we indicated in our last issue, Mathieu Kadio Morokro, chairman of Petro-Ivoire, the country's leading private oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.01.2004

Israel, Sierra Leone
Reuven Gross

An Israeli entrepreneur who specializes in buying up shopping centers in such countries as France and Belgium, Reuven Gross, has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2004

Ghana
Kaiser Sells Valco to Government

The U.S. group Kaiser Aluminum has signed a memorandum of understanding to sell its 90% holding in the Volta Aluminum [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2004

Ghana, Russia, Zimbabwe
Alros, Murowa Diamond Private Ltd., Ashanti Goldfields

ALROSA, the leading Russian diamond producer which has fallen behind [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2004

Mauritania
Sphere Seeks Funding for Iron Project

According to AMI sources, Sphere Investments, an Australian firm active [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2004

Mauritania
ENI Bows Out

Italy's ENI has made a further move to withdraw from Mauritania's offshore just as a first development in the area looms larger.

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria
Market Turmoil & No Bidders

Nigeria's decision to try to woo investors by lifting price controls on gasoline has backfired, bringing runaway prices and shortages but no high-profile bidders for its refineries.

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria
A Long Wait for Acreage

Petrobras and RoyalDutch/Shell have finally signed production sharing contracts for blocks which were respectively awarded to them in December, 2000 and May, 2002.

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Equatorial Guinea
Brownie Points for Malabo

The International Monetary Fund appears full of praise for Equatorial Guinea in the wake of a rash of highly critical [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria
Okonjo-Iweala's Offensive

Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appears to be pulling out all the stops to impose her department's authority over the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria
Alternative Funding

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has asked its partners in major joint ventures to help finance its share in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria
Walter Carrington

With a street already named after him in the embassy district of Lagos, Walter Carrington, former American ambassador to Nigeria, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria
Bronwen Manby

Author of a report by Human Rights Watch that came out in mid-December and highlighted the relationship between violence and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Guinea-Bissau
Premier Finds a Partner

The lone foreign company to operate in Guinea Bissau's offshore [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria
Ejulebe Slated for Closedown?

The Canadian concern TransAtlantic Petroleum, which recently teamed up with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria
Local Companies Finally Win Marginal Fields

Twenty four marginal fields relinquished by RoyalDutch/Shell, Chevron-Texaco and Total [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Sierra Leone
First Investments in Sight

AEI understands that the World Bank's board will examine a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Nigeria | landmark graphics
Contract with NNPC

The American firm Landmark Graphics, an affiliate of Halliburton, signed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

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