The new Africa-Russia-Eurasia Chamber of Commerce and Investment is making plans to hold its first summit in Dakar after ...

TP Mazembe, the Lubumbashi club, are supposed to have all their travel costs covered by the Ministry of Finance. But since ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

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 ...

The United States recently offered technical assistance to promote transparency in the transactions of the Libyan Central Bank (LCB), support that Washington hopes will help it maintain its influence ...

Yassir Zenagui joined Mohammed VI's private office in 2011 after two years as Minister of Tourism. A former City trader, Zenagui, who is 46 and has French and Moroccan nationality, has since ...

Having been prohibited from leaving Gabon for almost seven years, opposition politician Jean Ping, who still insists he rather than Ali Bongo was the rightful winner of the 2016 presidential election, ...

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 ...

A whole raft of Madagascar's business elite, some of them well over sixty, are in the process of organising their succession. These founding owners of major companies, most of whom are French ...

Madagascar's major mobile money companies are furious. The island's tax department, Direction Générale des Impôts, announced a bill for a new tax on mobile transactions on 14 November, and it was ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

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 ...