MAROCINVEST FINANCE GROUP has just started up business as a new investment consultant. It has a registered venture/development capital of $20 million. Its shareholders include the World Bank affiliate ...

Gold miner Robex is considering a management buyout for its Malian Nampala mine and listing the company on the Australian ...

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 ...

A veteran of double-pronged diplomacy, Touadéra has recently initiated a rapprochement with Paris in an effort to distance ...

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, ...

Abdourahamane Tchiani's administration is about to finalise an unprecedented acquisition from Turkish drone manufacturer ...

A first CH-4 combat drone system has been delivered to the DRC by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC). The batch, which includes three drones in addition to a ground station, is ...

The Zambian mining sector has been in a state of high tension since populist Michael Sata became the country's president at the end of September 2011. During his election campaign, Sata promised to ...

High-level forest summits are coming up thick and fast. Gabon's One Forest Summit is set to get under way on 1 March, while, in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso is ...

With a tender call reissued in secret and the arrest of a senior civil servant opposed to a decision taken by the hydraulic resources and electricity minister, the Nzilo II hydroelectric power station ...

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, ...

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 ...