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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mali, Niger
Xantus juggles with lithium

Angola
Williams & Connolly appuie Carlyle Group contre Cobalt

Tanzania
African Eagle Resources stopped from mining nickel

DRC
Glencore could be poised to invest anew in Katanga's copper

South Sudan
Coipa International snares its permit