In recent weeks, there has been an intensification of discussions between the foreign ministries and employers' associations ...

Several major mining companies including Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields Corp (AGC) are said to be interested in reviving gold mining in Botswana's Tati gold belt around Francistown. Drilling has begun ...

Based in Accra, the firm Amandi Energy headed by Israeli national Boaz Lavi asked MIGA, a unit of the World Bank, for a $360 million loan at the end of May.The agency is due to decide in late July. If ...

The Australian junior Gallery Resources, in which European companies hold stakes, has put the open-cast Golden Eagle mine back into production and has already mined 20,000 tons of ore. The company ...

Uganda’s energy ministry has put back the deadline for bids for six exploration blocks in the Albertine rift to the end of June. The submissions were to have been made by the end of May. The ...

Botswanan financier Andrew Ndlovu has founded two new firms in Gaborone under his name, Ndlovu Mining and Mineral Resources and Ndlovu Capital.The first aims to advise companies on their acquisition ...

Network of contacts in Congolese security circles Aime Emmanuel Yoka Aime Emmanuel Yoka, the justice minister and uncle of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, is the political godfather of Raymond ...

Wanting to catch the wave of surging demand for battery metals, mostly buoyed by Asia and the West (), the government of Cameroon is throwing its all into the Lomie cobalt and nickel mine.Teams within ...

Businesswoman and consultant Denise Cortês-Keyser has bought a 10% participating interest in the Mozambican arm of Nigerian oil and gas service expert International Energy Services (IES), which also ...

Construction materials specialist Abdenour Souakri, who has been a leading figure in the cement industry since he went into partnership with LafargeHolcim in 2012, is now taking an interest in another ...

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In late June, leaders of the main mining companies established in Katanga were invited to become buyers of future electricity output generated by the Luena coal station, located 500 km north of ...