The government has given a green light to a move by Sonangol and the U.S. drilling contractor Global Marine to set up a joint venture named Empresa Servicos Sondagems Angola (ESSA). As Sonangol's ...

The four Belgian military personnel who were still working in Niger returned home in December. Brussels had maintained a ...

The elder son of Joaquim Chissano is continuously in the limelight, and the Mozambique president’s reputation may not survive unscathed (ION 940). Already two years ago, the Chissano family had felt ...

The businessman who has been accused of embezzling US$350 million of Kenyan public funds was released on bail of $100,000 on January 9. Kamlesh Pattni, who is Indo-Pakistani origin, is suspected of ...

The former deputy secretary general for communications (June 1994) of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebel movement), Ibrahim Chehem Daoud, who had ...

On Sept. 22 the Moroccan firm Somepi signed an agreement in Rabat with the state-owned Ivory Coast company Petroci and Italy's Raga Engineering to set up a semi-public company under the name Simgaz to ...

The former defence minister of ex-president Milton Obote has created an anti-government guerrilla movement, the Uganda Popular Freedom Movement, at Tororo. Aged about fifty and from the Iteso tribe, ...

A veritable new broom swept out the existing management of flag carrier Ethiopian Airlines on July 11. Chaired by Seye Abraha (a member of Tigray People's Liberation Front, an ex-defence minister, and ...

Development works for the Mbalam-Nabeba cross-border iron ore mining project may soon commence. An official ceremony to mark the handover of equipment required to launch operations is due to be held ...

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, ...

The company Jubilee Platinum, quoted on the London Stock Exchange, has recently set up a subsidiary in Antananarivo, called Mineral Resources of Madagascar (MRM). 15% of MRM shares are owned by local ...

The fact that US major ExxonMobil is overseeing the 18 million tonne per annum Rovuma LNG project located near to Mozambique LNG in the Afungi zone in northern Mozambique greatly boosts TotalEnergies' ...