Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Burkina Faso & Ivory Coast will hand control of railway to mining firm

Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast have decided to turn over operation of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway to mining company Pan African Minerals, and the line will be extended to its planned manganese mine, Burkina Faso's prime minister said.

Burkina's premier, Luc Adolphe Tiao, told Reuters that the French conglomerate Bollore's contract to operate the 1,260 km railway from the Ivory Coast port of Abidjan to Burkina's capital Ouagadougou had expired. In a recent interview, "We've decided to

More details here...

No comments:

Post a Comment