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 ...

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, ...

Though the war in Ukraine has slowed some of their activity on the continent (AI, 06/07/22, 09/06/22), Russian oil and oil services companies are poised and ready to negotiate new deals in Africa.

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire has just given the French state's guarantee to a major €150m loan to Senegal. The decision was contained in a decree dated 21 March. The funds will be made ...

The chairman of the new Algerian bank BNP Paribas El Djazair (which is wholly owned by BNP Paribas and has a registered capital of 500 million dinar), Fathi Mestiri, is highly familiar with Arab ...

French engineering firm Artelia, which already completed an ESIA for Winning Consortium Simandou, owner of blocks 1 and 2 of the Simandou iron ore project, should soon take on new responsibilities.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renamed Hadin Kai, the military operation fighting terrorism in northern Nigeria welcomed its new intelligence director this week. Brigadier General Adebayo Adekola took up the post in Maiduguri, the ...