Browsing: Commodities

Central African President Faustin Archange Touadéra has just completed a European tour where he has invited mining companies to invest…

The Cameroonian authorities could extend the operating agreement for the Mbalam mining project located in the east of the country…

Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s largest cocoa producer, wants to locally process 50% of its cocoa bean production to increase farmers’…

The Ivorian government announces the destruction of 18,000 tons of “substandard” rice. The 18,000 tons of rice from India and…

In Morocco, the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) has announced a farm-out agreement between the Italian oil company…

The Director General of the Ivory Coast Coffee-Cocoa Council, KONE Brahima Yves, received in audience a Dutch delegation of 35…

While the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is experiencing a historic alternation, the price of cobalt collapses on international markets.…

Five years of legal proceedings later, Guinea changes strategy and chooses negotiation. Following an amicable settlement reached on February 25,…

Australian uranium company Aura Energy will sell 800,000 pounds of uranium oxide (U3O8) to Curzon Uranium Trading (CUT) over a…

Egyptian oil minister Tarek El Molla announced on January 20, 2019 in Cairo that the country will upgrade six of…

Chinese company China Molybdenum has entered into a share transfer agreement with Sino-US BHR to buy back its capital in…

The Democratic Republic of Congo has decided to triple the royalties on “strategic” minerals exploited on its territory. The royalty…

The Ministry of Equipment, Infrastructure and Mines launched Thursday a census operation operators in the gold sector throughout the country,…

On November 6, 2018, Katanga Mining Limited issued a press release announcing the temporary suspension and until further notice of…

As the world’s largest cashew producer, Côte d’Ivoire has been designated as the headquarters of the International Cashew Advisory Council…

South African Randgold finally merged with Canada’s Barrick Gold. The transaction, which represents $ 18.3 billion, excluding debt, gives birth…

Things seem to be accelerating for the Chalco Guinea Company, a subsidiary of the Chinalco Group. Six months after the…

Commodity trader and Glencore’s Black Beethoven Empowerment (BEE) partner, Off The Shelf Investments (OTS), completed the $ 973 million acquisition…

The Belgian Michel Arrion, former ambassador of the European Union, is the new executive director of the ICCO, the international…

The Moroccan group Cosumar has a stake of 55% in the capital of the Compagnie Maroco-Guinéenne de Sucre (Comaguis), the…

The Ivorian government has set October 1 the purchase price “edge field” of cocoa at 750 CFA per kilogram (1.14…

Planned since July 2018, G’I Cement, the cement subsidiary of the Guinean G’I industry, announced this Saturday, September 29, 2018,…

The South African government has unveiled a new mining charter that requires mining companies to increase the share of their…

The Cargill, Wilmar and Touton groups have put forward offers for the takeover of the assets of SAF Cacao, the…

Côte d’Ivoire is expected to raise the minimum cocoa purchase price for the new campaign that opens early next week.…

The Moroccan group OCP, the world leader in the phosphate fertilizer market, and the Hubei Forbon Group, a Chinese player…

Saf Cacao, one of the largest Ivorian exporters of cocoa, in liquidation following contracts in default, will finally have no…

Ivory Coast has already sold, since mid-August, 1.7 million tonnes of cocoa on its next crop of cocoa to start…

By Antoine Lawson, Libreville. The Directorate General of the Economy and Tax Policy (DGEPF) revealed that Gabon had produced 1.109…

RCA: suspension of the activities of a Chinese company for non respect of mining texts This decision comes after a…