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 ...

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, ...

Nearly two years after winning the tender for the Makelele gas block in Lake Kivu, US company Symbion Power has still not finalised its contract with the Congolese authorities. The project in question ...

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 ...

The new Mauritian ambassador to Paris is expected to present her credentials soon to the French authorities. A long-standing member of the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM), part of the current ...

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.

Sunergy Inc will begin doing the rounds of potential investors and banks in coming weeks to drum up finance for its new operations in Sierra Leone. The American junior, based in Arizona, has just ...

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 ...

Congolese president Denis Sassou-Nguesso has decided at the eleventh hour to travel to Beijing on Saturday, accompanied by a large delegation of advisers, ministers and family members. He is keen to ...

Andry Rajoelina, who has been president of Madagascar's High Transitional Authority since March 2009, is Africa's youngest head of state. The controversial circumstances of his accession to high ...

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 ...

"Approved by Parliament. Waiting to be signed into law." Since 25 April, these nine words have described the status of the Upstream Petroleum Resources Development (UPRD) Bill on a website that tracks ...