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 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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The formal end to the civil war in Sierra with the burning of a pile of weapons on Jan. 18 in Freetown to symbolize peace could well have had something to do with the decision of two other mining ...

The former minister for industrial development Yekoyada Francis Omoto Masakhalia has inherited the finance portfolio, taking over from outgoing Simeon Nyachae, who was moved to another ministerial ...

President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique appointed a new general secretary to the presidency last week at the same time as he formed his government. Antonio Correia Fernandes Sumbana replaces Murade ...

Pope Jean Paul II named a new diplomatic envoy to Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia on January 18. Archbishop Ramiro Moliner Inglés replaces Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi, who held the post until he ...