Baowu Steel has strengthened its teams on the Mount Simandou iron ore megaproject, with around 150 people, mainly from China.

The former commandant of the Comoros Islands gendarmerie and head of the utility Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures Mahamoud Mradabi has just founded a new political party in Moroni called Mouvement ...

The Mauritius council of ministers last week finally named Ghislaine Henry as the country's new ambassador to Madagascar, more than a year after having earmarked her for the post (ION 775). Ms. Henry ...

President France Albert René's appointment of his young wife, Sarah René, as member and vice chairman of the board of the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) has stirred fresh criticism of the ...

The former governor of Tanzania/s central bank, the Bank of Tanzania, Idris Rashid whose contract expired last July, has not taken long to find a new job. He has become director general of Akiba ...

The Association of Honorary Consuls of Cameroon (Amicale des Consuls Honoraires du Cameroun) will soon be making its appearance. These diplomats are in the process of setting up this influential ...

At the end of September, China First Highway Engineering Co (CFHEC) won the competitive tender launched by Douala mayor Roger Mbassa Ndine for the construction of the Wouri River embankment road. The ...

There is sure to be some grumbling about Lesotho's government when the country's citizens learn of the price South Africa pays each year for the delivery of 780 million cubic meters of Lesotho water.

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.

Each year, Cargill West Africa, a subsidiary of the American food and raw materials giant of the same name, produces 300,000 tonnes of cocoa in Ivory Coast. The company has an annual turnover of €750 ...

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...

A book on Mozambique is to be published by a retired general who for five years headed Dinfo, the army's intelligence services (re-christened Dimil). Xito Rodrigues will disclose details of Portugal's ...