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 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 ...

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

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 Canadian firm Vaaldiam Resources Ltd., that specializes in the exploration and development of diamonds and other precious stones in southern and central Africa, is determined to shift into higher ...

Italian businessman Luciano Fragola who runs the Eldo group has dropped his project for an industrial zone specializing in clothing textiles, " Carthage Fashion City, " that was to have opened in the ...

Located 550 km south-west of Addis Ababa in the regional state of Oromia, the Yayu coal field was discovered in 1996 by the Ethiopian Institute for Geological Surveys (EIGS). Late last year, four ...

After waiting since last July, the Algerian government has finally named Amine Kherbi rather than Mohamed Salah Dembri as Algeria's ambassador to Washington. The Bush administration reportedly ...

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 ...