The four Belgian military personnel who were still working in Niger returned home in December. Brussels had maintained a ...

At the end of September, China First Highway Engineering Co (CFHEC) won the competitive tender launched by Douala mayor Roger Mbassa Ndine for the construction of the Wouri River embankment road. The ...

A handful of French military veterans gave training to around 20 Senegalese officers in November. The officers who received the training are active in a range of services, from the gendarmerie to ...

Lesotho's Chamber of Mines, presided over by the CEO of Storm Mountain Diamonds, Mohale Ralikariki, is dead set against the new tax regime parliament is about to ratify. Its members believe that some ...

As a member of the Nigerian delegation led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Paris in November, Defence Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar was approached by a handful of French companies. Some of the ...

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 ...

Addax Petroleum's drawn-out drilling campaign stuttered to a halt in September. The company, owned by Chinese oil giant Sinopec, spent an estimated $180m on drilling 12 wells, only one of which has ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chairman and managing director of the leading industrial and sugar refining company on Reunion Island, the French group Quartier Français, Xavier Thiéblin, is trying to recycle himself into a job ...

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 ...