Bauxite

Ivory Coast
Moumouni Bictogo keen to take over mining employers' association chair from Jean-Claude Diplo

Adama Bictogo, founder of the family firm Lagune Exploration and brother of the National Assembly's president, is in the running to take over as chair of the GPMCI from the boss in Ivory Coast of Canada's Allied Group.

Guinea
Guinea's consul in Los Angeles joins forces with Irish lawyer to lure investors

Jordan Garcia and Peter Finan are looking for US and Canadian investment funds interested in acquiring stakes in mining projects in Guinea.

Guinea
Simandou mega-project: change of communications team

Forward Global's communications arm 35°Nord lost its contract with Winning Consortium Simandou in late September.

Guinea
AMR bauxite operations still paralysed despite court rulings

Two separate Guinean courts have issued orders allowing the company to resume its mining activities, but police are still blocking access to the site. It appears gendarmerie head General Balla Samoura may have a hand in the situation.

Guinea
Confusion around halt at AMR bauxite mine

Alliance Minière Responsable can no longer deliver to its Chinese and Korean customers after gendarmes blocked its mine in Guinea.

Angola
Rio Tinto keeps close eye on progress at Chiri diamonds project

The mining giant's boss Jakob Stausholm dispatched four emissaries to Angola in mid-April. Their mission was to assess progress on the firm’s two largest projects on the continent.

Uganda
Kampala hopes to capitalise on US-China race for graphite and rare earths

The Ugandan government plans to take advantage of Beijing and Washington's appetite for energy transition minerals to consolidate its mining industry, which is still in its infancy in these sectors.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara allies squabble over Bougouanou bauxite

The mining project launched by Moumouni Bictogo has prompted rifts between shareholders close to the presidential party, and the affair has now gone to court following a complaint by Ivorian businessman Léo Guigui.

Guinea
Ex-minister Kanté sent for trial over alleged bauxite fraud

Former mines minister Ahmed Kanté now heads GIC, a mining company which controls a major bauxite mining project in Boké. He is having to defend himself, however, against an accusation that he abused the confidence of his former Russian partner, Alexander Zotov.

Guinea
Bauxite: Chalco under pressure to restart production in Boffa

Three ministers travelled to Boffa in mid-November to try and resolve the dispute between the Chinese group's local subsidiary, its employees and local communities. Production stopped at the site on 23 October and the government wants it restarted urgently.

The New Guard
Guinea, Kenya, Ethiopia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

GuineaAboubacar Sidiki Kanté, lawyer and fixer to miners and industry

KenyaBeatrice Waruinge, ‘cinemactivist'

EthiopiaCherinet Hariffo, active in the diaspora

Guinea
Bauxite: bitter legal battle between Bel Air Mining and former deputy CEO

Alufer Mining's subsidiary is struggling with financial problems after being fined over the recent sinking of a bauxite barge. It now finds itself embroiled in a legal battle and has appointed a former Alpha Condé minister as its executive director.

Guinea
Ministry of Mines approves sale of SBG

Minister of Mines Moussa Magassouba approved the sale of Société des Bauxites de Guinée to Kouroussa Mining, owned by Mamady Nabé.