Relations between Niger and China received a real boost at the 3rd Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Beijing in early September, at which Mahamadou Issoufou was notable for his ...

Over twenty international engineering firms have expressed an interest to the permanent secretariat of the G5 Sahel in conducting the feasibility study for a railway linking the five countries of the ...

The arrival of Rouge Mining is raising eyebrows in the Guinean copper ore industry. The group has succeeded in obtaining a ...

The big Algerian-Chinese project to market phosphates from eastern Algeria has fallen victim to the political crisis. On April 23, Entreprise Portuaire d'Annaba, the company chosen to build a terminal ...

In the meantime, Rajaonarimampianina had been bold and far-seeing enough to stand in the presidential election under the colours of his own political movement, the Hery Vaovao hoan'i Madagasikara ...

After having begun his career as a modest seller of foodstuffs, 63-year-old Mohamed Ould Bouamatou has gradually established himself as a major business figure in Mauritania. His BSA group is present ...

After 30 years at the State House, President Yoweri Museveni, or "M7" to use his campaign nickname, is aiming at the age of 71 to obtain a fifth mandate, which he hopes to win thanks to his hold on ...

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Off the Western Sahara coast, the fishing is always good for the politicians! In Dakhla, Parti Authenticite et Modernite (PAM) [...] ...

He served briefly as adviser to prime minister Jacques Sylla from 2002 to 2004 but, since then, has avoided taking political sides too openly in public. He has not forgotten the problems encountered ...

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 ...

Just as international companies are preparing to invest colossal sums of money in gas reserves in the province of Cabo Delgado, a handful of retired generals, who come from this northern region and ...