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

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.

Each year, Cargill West Africa, a subsidiary of the American food and raw materials giant of the same name, produces 300,000 tonnes of cocoa in Ivory Coast. The company has an annual turnover of €750 ...

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, ...

A book on Mozambique is to be published by a retired general who for five years headed Dinfo, the army's intelligence services (re-christened Dimil). Xito Rodrigues will disclose details of Portugal's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tema LNG Terminal Co (TLTC), the company which owns Ghana's Tema LNG import terminal, was over-optimistic in its forecast of the date for Shell's first LNG delivery to the terminal. The delivery, ...

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.