Kenyan Mines Minister Ali Hassan Joho has received two new bids for gold and titanium exploration permits in the counties of ...

The visit may take place in the first fortnight of April, and it would be Sonko's first to Ivory Coast since coming to office ...

The secretary-general of Algeria's security agency Direction Generale de la Surete Nationale (DGSN), Mahmoud Mohand-Amokrane, is to attend courses this year at France's Institute for Higher Domestic ...

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 ...

After President Marc Ravalomanana's trip to the United States this week, Madagascar could become Washington's privileged ally in the fight against terrorism in the southwest of the Indian Ocean. The ...

For reportedly throwing support behind president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, colonel Abdelkrim Hammad was relieved of his post as director of a preparatory school for engineering students and transferred to ...

First in the line of this new generation of businessmen born in the age of President Marc Ravalomanana, is his son Tojo, 28, who has been the manager of IrtoTrading since the end of 2004 jointly with ...

Mauritanian president Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya has named Cheyakh Ould Ely as the new ambassador to Morocco in succession to Ismail Ould Lyahi. Ely was minister of relations with the parliament ...

A decree dated 9 July from President Ismaël Omar Guelleh authorised Mohamed Idriss Nour "to exercise the activity of distribution and sale of kerosene with exclusive rights" in Djibouti. To do this, ...

The general manager of the Banque Commerciale du Maroc/Wafabank, Ali Iben Mansour, has just been named president of the Federation des Secteurs Bancaire et Financier, a wing of the Confederation ...