The four Belgian military personnel who were still working in Niger returned home in December. Brussels had maintained a ...

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...

On Sept. 22 the Moroccan firm Somepi signed an agreement in Rabat with the state-owned Ivory Coast company Petroci and Italy's Raga Engineering to set up a semi-public company under the name Simgaz to ...

The former deputy secretary general for communications (June 1994) of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebel movement), Ibrahim Chehem Daoud, who had ...

A handful of French military veterans gave training to around 20 Senegalese officers in November. The officers who received the training are active in a range of services, from the gendarmerie to ...

French companies working in the defence sector approached Mohammed Badaru Abubakar when he came to Paris in November as part ...

The trade department at the French embassy in Nouakchott recently published a survey on the big family groups that corner most of Mauritania's economy. Top dog is the MAOA group (owned by Mohamed ...

With Sophie Ranaivo, the younger daughter of head of state Didier Ratsiraka, Justin Randrianasolo is one of the two administrators representing the largest shareholders of Banque de la Solidarité ...

Ethiopian businessman Yemeru Nega (who is of the Gurage tribe) has set his company, Yencomad Inc. Pvt. Ltd Co, to putting up a twelve-floor building of 4,000 sq.m in Addis Ababa, at an estimated cost ...

Ever since 23 December, when a man bound for Dubai via Addis Ababa was arrested at Antananarivo's Ivato airport with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien ...