Baowu Steel has strengthened its teams on the Mount Simandou iron ore megaproject, with around 150 people, mainly from China.

The chairman of the new Algerian bank BNP Paribas El Djazair (which is wholly owned by BNP Paribas and has a registered capital of 500 million dinar), Fathi Mestiri, is highly familiar with Arab ...

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 ...

The Association of Honorary Consuls of Cameroon (Amicale des Consuls Honoraires du Cameroun) will soon be making its appearance. These diplomats are in the process of setting up this influential ...

The tender call for the installation of a second submarine cable link to Mauritania was launched in August and has attracted two foreign firms and one local company.

There is sure to be some grumbling about Lesotho's government when the country's citizens learn of the price South Africa pays each year for the delivery of 780 million cubic meters of Lesotho water.

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire has just given the French state's guarantee to a major €150m loan to Senegal. The decision was contained in a decree dated 21 March. The funds will be made ...

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.

Jean-Louis Billon is a case apart in Ivory Coast. He is heir to the leading private sector group, SIFCA, which was founded by his father, Pierre Billon, but is reputed to scorn networking in a country ...

Though the war in Ukraine has slowed some of their activity on the continent (AI, 06/07/22, 09/06/22), Russian oil and oil services companies are poised and ready to negotiate new deals in Africa.

Located 550 km south-west of Addis Ababa in the regional state of Oromia, the Yayu coal field was discovered in 1996 by the Ethiopian Institute for Geological Surveys (EIGS). Late last year, four ...