Pending a replacement for the ailing Olivier Hugues Rija Rajohnson, Lionel Ratsirimpady has been appointed chargé d'affaires.

A duo of Ghanaian generals recently took charge of the West African regional security organisation and have been tasked with ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of March, Kenya's Mines Minister Ali Hassan Joho acknowledged receipt of two new applications for exploration licences in the country. The public has 42 days following the ministry's notice ...

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko is considering a visit to Ivory Coast, which could take place in the first fortnight of April. It would be the first trip by the leader of the African Patriots ...

The product of Chantal Biya's first marriage, twin brothers Franck and Patrick Hertz have largely been left alone by the media. Now in his thirties, Franck has been making the most of his mother's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Werede was not in charge of mining issues in Reda's temporary administration. But this one-time hero of the Tigray struggle, who commanded the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) that opposed the army during ...