At the end of September, China First Highway Engineering Co won the competitive tender launched by Douala mayor Roger Mbassa ...

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

When he came to power on December 21 2010, President Alpha Conde promised a "new era". Two years on, it has become clear that management of the country's mineral resources is more than ever under his ...

Since President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz came to power in 2009, a number of members of his Oulad Bou Sbaa tribe have obtained key posts in the Mauritanian administration. Ahmed Salem Ould Tekrour, ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

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 ...

Management of Chad's oil revenues is a family affair. Seventy three per cent of the $12 billion revenues accumulated since 2003 and 90% of exports are accounted for by the entourage of President Idris ...

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 ...

France's junior minister for Development, the French-speaking diaspora and international partnerships, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, will travel to Kinshasa mid-December. Her exact dates have not yet been ...

King Mohammed VI's younger sister has ceded her shares in the Sicopa cannery to the businessman close to the royal family. Fahmane remains in partnership with the princess in the Atlas Agrumes ...

Daniel Chapo, the frontrunner in next month's presidential election in Mozambique, paid an unpublicised visit to Kigali in June where he met Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who has become the key ...