Initially scheduled for 24 and 25 April, the Forum Invest in Senegal event is in danger of being postponed until November for ...

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, ...

Italy's ambassador to Mozambique since 1989, Manfredo Incisa Di Camerana, will leave his post about the end of the year (anyway after Mozambique's general elections at the end of October) and will ...

At the regional level, the Turkish naval defence industry made its first breakthrough back in 2021 with the sale of two Dearsan Shipyard OPV 76 patrol vessels to the Nigerian Navy. The contract was ...

Tunisia's finance minister, Taoufik Baccar, has been complaining in public that his powers are limited, and in particular in the banking industry. The heads of Tunisia's banks report only to the ...

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 ...

The Tunisian government's deepening financial crisis has not entirely put the brakes on the armed forces' spending spree. According to sources in Tunis, the French missile manufacturer MBDA and ...

Candidates for the 12 April presidential election will have from 27 February until 8 March to register. And among them is likely to be the journalist and founder of the now defunct pan-African ...

The tender call for the installation of a second submarine cable link to Mauritania was launched in August and has attracted two foreign firms and one local company.

United Nations special representative for Libya Martin Kobler has been negotiating since March 2016 with former war lord Abdelhakim Belhadj and other militia leaders to install Fayez El Sarraj's ...

Hassanein Hiridjee and his brother inherited businesses started by their father. Hassanein, a member of Madagascar's Indo-Pakistani community, has French nationality and is very much the modern ...