The Ivorian president will head to France on 15 January for personal reasons on a visit that coincides with his Angolan ...

Moulay Idriss Filali, whose mother is King Mohammed VI's elder sister, is gradually expanding his economic empire. With help ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

The minister and his new director have known each other for many years. In the early 2000s when he was at the helm of the SNPC, Itoua dispatched Onanga to train as an oil engineer in Houston.

Development works for the Mbalam-Nabeba cross-border iron ore mining project may soon commence. An official ceremony to mark the handover of equipment required to launch operations is due to be held ...

Now that its joint venture partnership with Toyota Tshusho Corp on the Achmach tin project in Morocco has been completed (talks are underway to finance construction of a mine) Kasbah Resources has ...

Former health minister in Djibouti, Mohamed Djama Elabe formed the Mouvement pour la Paix and Reconciliation before taking over at the head of the Front Uni de l'Opposition Djiboutienne (FUOD) in ...

The national oil firm is currently focused on drumming up interest for two offshore blocks that have not found a buyer: 4/05 in the Congo Basin and 5/06 in the Kwanza Basin. Wanting to sell these as ...

Amid continuing tensions between France and Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou has chosen a new ambassador to take over its embassy in Paris.

Three candidates have come forward as would-be successors to Central Bank of Libya (CBL) governor Al-Seddik Omar Al Kabir in the event that he should lose his job as a result of the as yet unlikely ...

From the outset of the crisis between Kinshasa and Kigali, Chinese diplomats have been keeping a low profile. But even though foreign minister Qin Gang has studiously avoided getting involved in the ...