The last four Belgian military personnel who were still working in Niger returned home in December. Despite the suspension of its defence collaboration with Niamey following the July 2023 coup that ...

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...

Ever since 23 December, when a man bound for Dubai via Addis Ababa was arrested at Antananarivo's Ivato airport with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien ...

The corporate brand and communication manager (since 1995) of Shell on Mauritius has been chosen by the government as board chairman of Export Processing Zones Development Authority (EPZDA), taking ...

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire has just given the French state's guarantee to a major €150m loan to Senegal. The decision was contained in a decree dated 21 March. The funds will be made ...

In mid-November the Indian company KEC International, which has been making big dents on the African market (AI, 19/10/20), won the tender for the construction of a 77km-long electricity transmission ...

Société d'Entreprise Houar, a company founded in Oujda, Morocco, by businessman Driss Houar, has won two strategic road contracts in Senegal worth nearly €100m. That includes the construction of an 11 ...

In just one year, the Pan-African Youth Union will have had no less than three executive directors. The most recent appointment, which was made a few weeks ago, was that of Imane Ibn El Melih, a ...

Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam on November 24 suspended Raj Dayal as police commissioner after a long-running dispute (ION N° 787) and appointed a special inquiry commission headed by former chief ...

SOFREMINES has joined forces with the U.S. firm Booz Allen & Hamilton to conduct a ?strategic diagnostic study? of the Algerian firm Ferphos which operates the Djebel Onk mine.

Tunisian Air Force commander Mohamed Hajjem is working hard to make a success of the International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition (IADE), which will be held from 11 to 15 May in Djerba. While in ...