Secretary of State for Tourism Lamia Boutaleb succeeded in heading off the "Southbridge affair" by cancelling the consultancy contract awarded to a company owned by a member of her RNI party (MC 1260) ...

Development works for the Mbalam-Nabeba cross-border iron ore mining project may soon commence. An official ceremony to mark the handover of equipment required to launch operations is due to be held ...

Jimnah Mbaru has been head of the Dyer & Blair investment bank, which today is highly prosperous, since 1983. He also has a substantial portfolio of shares in other flourishing companies. Born in 1947 ...

Killed, along with his two bodyguards, last week in a hotel in Beni (Democratic Republic of Congo) where he had just arrived, major Reuben Ikondere, the second-in-command of the UPDF force in DRC, may ...

Though Africa is a priority for UNESCO, the continent having its own dedicated assistant director, it is significantly under-represented in the upper echelons of the institution run by Audrey Azoulay.

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 ...

Few wives of African heads of state succeed like Dominique Ouattara in establishing themselves as champions of humanitarian aid and entrepreneurs without the help of their husbands. Through these two ...

Hydraulics specialist Envex is to rehabilitate the Les Dunes and Bousfer sea water desalination plants in Oran, two of the seven sited in the wilaya. The Oran water resources department awarded it the ...

Renamed Hadin Kai, the military operation fighting terrorism in northern Nigeria welcomed its new intelligence director this week. Brigadier General Adebayo Adekola took up the post in Maiduguri, the ...

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.

The Congolese president has enlisted the services of the lobbying firm GlobalPoint in a bid to get closer to Donald Trump's ...

When the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meets at its next ordinary summit in Abuja, the commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, Abdel-Fatau Musah, will present his ...