Katanga, Kipushi Corp still has to build a new exit road for its zinc production. But the planned route encroaches on a ...

The European Investment Bank is to co-finance the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in Kafr el-Sheik, in the north of the country. The project is expected to cost €23m.

The new trade counsellor at the French embassy in Tripoli, Jean-Louis Fontenille, won't suffer cultural shock in the byzantime atmosphere in Tripoli. He has just spent four years in Damascus and had ...

On 9 September, Bugesera Airport Co (BAC), which is owned by state-owned Qatar Airways and by the Rwandan government, officially awarded the contract for the new Bugesera airport, located 50km south ...

A member of deputy prime minister Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) party is being tipped as chairman of Sicom, the state-owned insurance company. Ho Chan Fong will take over the post ...

Despite having suffered setbacks in the parliamentary and presidential elections of 1997 and 2002, he has little by little established himself as one of the central figures in Kenyan political life.

On 17 September, the Chadian government suffered a major setback before the Paris Court of Appeal in its dispute with the telecoms company N-Soft (AI, 16/08/22) when judges overturned a ruling handed ...

The Cameroonian head of state has instructed his presidential guard to look into a vast fraud case, in which the names of high ranking military officers and members of the presidential security ...

Several embassies that covered Eritrea from the Sudanese capital have had to take refuge in Ethiopia since the start of the civil war more than a year ago. But the historical rivalry and growing ...

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 ...