Since the victory of the Labour Party/Mouvement Militant Mauricien coalition in December's general election, Marie France Roussety has been trying to become the Mauritian ambassador to France. Her ...

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, ...

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 chairman of Southern Ethiopia Peoples' Democratic Coalition (SEPDC) and National Democratic Coalition (NDC) was elected chairman of the conference for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia, held in ...

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 ...

His association with TGV has boosted the activities of the Sodiat group he set up in May 1990 and which today counts a dozen or so companies in different fields of activity. In return, Ravatomanga ...

A whole raft of Madagascar's business elite, some of them well over sixty, are in the process of organising their succession. These founding owners of major companies, most of whom are French ...

Management of Chad's oil revenues is a family affair. Seventy three per cent of the $12 billion revenues accumulated since 2003 and 90% of exports are accounted for by the entourage of President Idris ...

When he came to power on December 21 2010, President Alpha Conde promised a "new era". Two years on, it has become clear that management of the country's mineral resources is more than ever under his ...

After 30 years at the State House, President Yoweri Museveni, or "M7" to use his campaign nickname, is aiming at the age of 71 to obtain a fifth mandate, which he hopes to win thanks to his hold on ...

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.

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 ...