Initially scheduled for 24 and 25 April, the Forum Invest in Senegal event is in danger of being postponed until November for ...

Tunisia's finance minister, Taoufik Baccar, has been complaining in public that his powers are limited, and in particular in the banking industry. The heads of Tunisia's banks report only to the ...

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 ...

In the meantime, Rajaonarimampianina had been bold and far-seeing enough to stand in the presidential election under the colours of his own political movement, the Hery Vaovao hoan'i Madagasikara ...

Italian businessman Luciano Fragola who runs the Eldo group has dropped his project for an industrial zone specializing in clothing textiles, " Carthage Fashion City, " that was to have opened in the ...

The committee preparing the next conference of former president Joseph Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Democratie (PPRD) is to be set up this Friday. It will be responsible for ...

French engineering firm Artelia, which already completed an ESIA for Winning Consortium Simandou, owner of blocks 1 and 2 of the Simandou iron ore project, should soon take on new responsibilities.

Relations between Niger and China received a real boost at the 3rd Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Beijing in early September, at which Mahamadou Issoufou was notable for his ...

A scientist by training, Gokana, 56, is one of the most influential oil industry experts in Congo-Brazzaville, which is sub-Saharan Africa's fourth biggest crude oil producer. A native of Boundji in ...

The Seychelles is a country composed of 116 sparsely populated islands with a total population of 90,000 and an economy in which the only real drivers are tourism, commerce and the domiciliation of ...

After having begun his career as a modest seller of foodstuffs, 63-year-old Mohamed Ould Bouamatou has gradually established himself as a major business figure in Mauritania. His BSA group is present ...