The arrival of Rouge Mining is raising eyebrows in the Guinean copper ore industry. The group has succeeded in obtaining a ...

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 ...

Lesotho's Chamber of Mines, presided over by the CEO of Storm Mountain Diamonds, Mohale Ralikariki, is dead set against the new tax regime parliament is about to ratify. Its members believe that some ...

The Tunisian government's deepening financial crisis has not entirely put the brakes on the armed forces' spending spree. According to sources in Tunis, the French missile manufacturer MBDA and ...

Discussions about combating irregular migration are continuing between Abuja and London. Having visited the British capital last month, the Nigerian Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo could host his ...

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 ...

Having been prohibited from leaving Gabon for almost seven years, opposition politician Jean Ping, who still insists he rather than Ali Bongo was the rightful winner of the 2016 presidential election, ...

Since President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz came to power in 2009, a number of members of his Oulad Bou Sbaa tribe have obtained key posts in the Mauritanian administration. Ahmed Salem Ould Tekrour, ...

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 ...

The commercial division of the High Court of Kenya is to hear an application in Mombasa on 22 May for the winding up of Africa Merchant Assurance Co (AMACO). Creditors and other interested parties are ...

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 ...