The request should land on the desk of African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye before the end of the week: Somalia, which is seeking to replace the ...

Angola's Force Petroleum is no longer a shareholder in the onshore block Cabinda South, located in Angola's oil-rich Cabinda province, the exclave wedged between the Republic of Congo and the DRC. The ...

The road leading to the site of the future Sahofika dam (205MW), the largest electricity production project in Madagascar, around 100km south of Antananarivo, is about to have a complete makeover.

The pan-African banking group Vista Bank, founded by Simon Tiemtoré, an American originally from Burkina Faso, has just seen the departure of two of its key figures, including Stéphane Ouédraogo, vice ...

The project to construct an inland container depot (ICD) in Kwala, which should have been operational as of January 2018, is not merely behind schedule but manifestly in trouble. There have been no ...

Genielake, an Algerian building firm run by Noureddine Lakelak, was one of the guests of honour at UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) at its Plantworx building and public works fair near Birmingham between ...

A book on Mozambique is to be published by a retired general who for five years headed Dinfo, the army's intelligence services (re-christened Dimil). Xito Rodrigues will disclose details of Portugal's ...

The son of an Algerian diplomat, Anouar El Mili, is reportedly being sought by the Algerian and American authorities for money-laundering. El Mili has already been sentenced in absentia to 10 years in ...

A businessman active in the agribusinesses branch (ready-made meals for export), Ali Ghamgui, is to build a cement works with Irish and Saudi partners. Tunisia presently counts five cement works: ...

Retired major general Athmane Tartag, also known as Bachir, the former head of the DRS intelligence and security agency, has been placed under house arrest in the west Algerian city of Oran, where he ...

The designation of the ex-minister of security and current minister of state in charge of elections, Mariano Matsinhe, to lead the government party Frelimo's campaign for the future multi-party ...

Thanks to his close friendship with Leo Mugabe, the nephew of Zimbabwe's head of state Robert Mugabe (ION N° 613), Saudi businessman Hani A. Z. Yamani is lying in pole position to win the contract to ...