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West Africa

Ghana
Assessing an AFD Loan

Donor institutions are spending a lot of time these days in responding to questions raised in Africa over the scant [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

Mauritania
MAURITEL

MAURITEL, Mauritania's state-owned telecommunications company, will be the first to [...]

Subscribers only 13.04.2000

Mauritania
OULD DADDAH STAYS AWAY

Just as he was preparing to travel to Tunisia for [...]

Subscribers only 13.04.2000

Senegal
Hopes Springs Eternal for Paget

An Australian company that has been disputing ownership of the Sabodala gold mine in Senegal for years now believes it [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

Sierra Leone
Gems Under Sanctions Threat

The peace process in Sierra Leone is giving signs of collapsing and if it does the breakdown could lead to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

West Africa
Washington Behind WAPG

Despite the problems encountered by Enron in Nigeria and indirect criticism from the World Bank (AEM 270/272), the United States [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

Nigeria
A Modest Fiscal Face-Lift

An overhaul of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) isn't the only issue the World Bank is mulling at the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

Ivory Coast
Contract for Bouygues/Saipem

A 50/50 joint venture owned by Bouygues Offshore and Saipem, SAIBOS CML, has won a $40 million contract to supply [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

West Africa
TotalFinaElf's Exploration Plans

The bulk of exploration that TotalFinaElf intends to undertake in 2000 will be in West Africa. While the group plans [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

Mauritania | NULL
Mauritania's Business World

The trade department at the French embassy in Nouakchott recently published a survey on the big family groups that corner [...]

Subscribers only 30.03.2000

Mauritania
ROUGH TIME AT PARIS CLUB

Despite backing from France, the regime of president Mohamed Ould [...]

Subscribers only 30.03.2000

France, Mauritania
DAH OULD ABDI

After representing Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Taya in Paris for [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.03.2000

West Africa
Rocky Ride for Enron

Enron's aggressive strategy in West Africa has come in for a serious mauling in recent months. In early January, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

West Africa
But Friends for in Maputo

As in West Africa, Enron has been pulling in its horns in Mozambique on the Maputo Iron and Steel project [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Mali
Operator for Manantali

The World Bank has offered Mali a loan through the International Development Association to finance the pre-qualification round for an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Nigeria
Shake-Up at NNPC

The overhaul of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has become the Obasanjo administration's foremost economic issue. A stand-by agreement worked [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Ghana
Faster Pace for Exploration

The U.K. company Dana Petroleum Plc says it will shortly start drilling a second well in the south Tano basin [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Equatorial Guinea
New Regional Eldorado

According to an expert from Malaysia's Petronas group there is every reason to imagine that Equatorial Guinea's oil output will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Ivory Coast
Slowdown for Power Projects

Ivory Coast's budget squeeze is likely to slow down its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Burkina Faso
SONABEL boss Salif Kabore's Friend in High Places

Named managing director of the Societe Nationale Burkinabe d'Electricite (SONABEL) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Ghana
Power for Re-Settlement Towns

The China International Water & Electric Corp (CWE) has offered [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Mauritania
EX-PRESIDENT OULD DADDAH HOME-BOUND?

Mauritania's ambassador to France, Dah Ould Abdi, travelled to Nice [...]

Subscribers only 16.03.2000

Spotlight | Nigeria
Niger Delta To Come Under U.S. Protection?

Nigeria's growing share in American oil imports –the U.S. bought 651,000 bpd of Nigerian oil in 1999 against 337,000 bpd of crude from Angola –has finally drawn the attention of American decision-makers to the Niger river delta where four American [.

Subscribers only Energy 15.03.2000

Ivory Coast
Bridging Loan for SIR

On March 15 the board of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) will examine an audit of the company commissioned by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.03.2000

Guinea
Bauxite, Diamond and Gold Forecasts

The new government has predicted that output by the Cie [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.03.2000

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