The government has given a green light to a move by Sonangol and the U.S. drilling contractor Global Marine to set up a joint venture named Empresa Servicos Sondagems Angola (ESSA). As Sonangol's ...

Development works for the Mbalam-Nabeba cross-border iron ore mining project may soon commence. An official ceremony to mark the handover of equipment required to launch operations is due to be held ...

Ronak Pratap Madhvani, generally known as Roni Madhvani, is becoming the most widely known member of this powerful Asian family. He has just been appointed chairman of the board of the powerful Uganda ...

The elder son of Joaquim Chissano is continuously in the limelight, and the Mozambique president’s reputation may not survive unscathed (ION 940). Already two years ago, the Chissano family had felt ...

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 businessman who has been accused of embezzling US$350 million of Kenyan public funds was released on bail of $100,000 on January 9. Kamlesh Pattni, who is Indo-Pakistani origin, is suspected of ...

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 ...

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 company Jubilee Platinum, quoted on the London Stock Exchange, has recently set up a subsidiary in Antananarivo, called Mineral Resources of Madagascar (MRM). 15% of MRM shares are owned by local ...

The Congolese Minister of International Cooperation and Public Private Partnerships (PPP), Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, is planning a major conference for investors in Singapore. It will be the ...

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

The fact that US major ExxonMobil is overseeing the 18 million tonne per annum Rovuma LNG project located near to Mozambique LNG in the Afungi zone in northern Mozambique greatly boosts TotalEnergies' ...