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 ...

Tunisian Air Force commander Mohamed Hajjem is working hard to make a success of the International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition (IADE), which will be held from 11 to 15 May in Djerba. While in ...

N'Djamena is strengthening its diplomatic presence in Paris by changing its ambassador. In the past few weeks, Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif put forward the name of Ahmad Makaila, the current ...

Gaborone is planning to update the regulatory framework of its electricity sector in order to be in line with President Mokgweetsi Masisi's plans to diversify Botswana's energy mix (890 MW), which is ...

Ajukwe is at home enough in South Africa to have chosen Cape Town to hold a grand celebration for his 60th birthday in 2017. All of the Nigerian and South African intelligentsia attended the event at ...

The army's intelligence investigators are about to upgrade their cyber arsenal. Since 15 August, the ministry of defence has been combing through bids submitted for a contract to supply and run ...

The minister and his new director have known each other for many years. In the early 2000s when he was at the helm of the SNPC, Itoua dispatched Onanga to train as an oil engineer in Houston.

After several years of strong activity, which have seen independent power producers leading an increasing number of projects, public sector Zambia Electricity Supply Corp. (ZESCO) plans to make an ...

US oil major ExxonMobil is cautiously moving forward in the Angolan part of the Namibe Basin. On 6 November, it obtained permission from the authorities to extend the initial exploration period on its ...

Discussions about combating irregular migration are continuing between Abuja and London. Having visited the British capital last month, the Nigerian Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo could host his ...

Veolia and Gabon held a closed-door meeting in Paris from July 28 to 29 after the French group was stripped of its water and power concession in February.

The next meeting between Darfur fighters in Libya and the Sudanese army is set to take place in Doha in early March. Following two previous meetings between fighters from the so-called "Democratic ...