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West Africa

Ghana
Companies Pay Land Reclamation Bonds

Legislation in 1999 that introduced "land reclamation bonds" forcing mining companies to post bonds they could recover by cleaning up [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.04.2002

Liberia
Mano River an "Official" Partner

Canada's Mano River Resources has developed particularly close links with Liberia's mines ministry headed by Jenkis Dunbar. The firm has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.04.2002

Equatorial Guinea
Juniors On The Way

Long a monopoly of the government and the American company UMEG, Equatorial Guinea's mining industry could well open up shortly [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.04.2002

Nigeria
Law Suit Filed for OPL 245

The OPL 245 block was awarded in 1998 and withdrawn in 2001. AEI understands the acreage could become the object of a law suit in the United States.

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Nigeria
Paul Wilson

Director of ArmorGroup Nigeria, an affiliate of the U.S. security company Armor Holding, Paul Wilson is endeavoring to beef up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Nigeria
Majors Protest Over Quotas

OPEC's move early this year to slap a production quota [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Nigeria
TotalFinaElf Given an Additional Year to Fix Kaduna

France's TotalFinaElf won a contract under Sani Abacha's government in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Nigeria
The World Bank and Trading Options

The World Bank appears highly suspicious of the option system [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Nigeria
When Bouygues Farms Out Work to Bouygues

Being part of a construction group can facilitate the choice [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Australia, Mauritania | HARDMAN RESOURCES
Listing in London

The Australian firm Hardman Resources, which is already listed on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Nigeria | ENI
Contract with NLNG

No sooner had RoyalDutch/Shell confirmed its decision to build two [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Senegal | AES
Bargaining on Senelec Begins

After some weeks of uncertainty after the collapse of talks [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Burkina Faso
Two Juniors Seek to Stir Interest

A planned merger between Orezone Resources and Coronation International Mining Corp is only the first step towards setting up a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.03.2002

Ghana
Afminex Switches Back to Gold

Australia's Afminex Ltd., previously named Shield Telecommunications, has once again made an about-turn in strategy. Just a year ago it [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.03.2002

Burkina Faso
Douglas Chikohora

The West African representative of the British firm Cluff Mining, Douglas Chikohora, is negotiating the fiscal side of the Kasalka [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.03.2002

Ghana
Gordon Edward Haslam

A 57-year-old metallurgist, Gordon Edward Haslam, has been named a non-executive director of Ashanti Goldfields. Haslam is not a total [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.03.2002

Sierra Leone
Derry Ryan

Stanton Mineral Resources is poised to begin diamond mining operations near Blama in Kenema district in the eastern part of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.03.2002

Mauritania, Senegal | OMVS
Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug

Former Mauritanian minister of health, justice and energy, Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug has just been named high commissioner of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.03.2002

Nigeria
Jude O. Amaefule

Head of the Nigerian firm Vision Reservoir Management Technologies, Jude O. Amaefule has benefited from a government ruling that local [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.03.2002

Senegal
Correction

A mistake appeared in the story entitled ?How Vivendi Struck Out on Senelec? Spotlight section of our last issue. The [...]

Free access Energy 12.03.2002

Mali
Gulf Nations to Bankroll Tassaye Dam

Several Arab development funds are to put up half of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.03.2002

Nigeria
U.S. ExIm Bank Offers Guarantee to Nigerian Banks

The U.S. ExIm Bank has signed an agreement with six [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.03.2002

Nigeria
Fallout from Break with IMF

Announced last week, Nigeria's rejection of the monitoring accord it [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.03.2002

Equatorial Guinea
IMF Drops in on Oil Ministry

Keen on having the IMF initiate a program in Equatorial [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.03.2002

West Africa
Oil and Gas in the Gulf of Guinea

The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.03.2002

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