His association with TGV has boosted the activities of the Sodiat group he set up in May 1990 and which today counts a dozen or so companies in different fields of activity. In return, Ravatomanga ...

Since President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz came to power in 2009, a number of members of his Oulad Bou Sbaa tribe have obtained key posts in the Mauritanian administration. Ahmed Salem Ould Tekrour, ...

The first infrastructures of Djibouti dry port, valued at US$12 million, have been completed (tarmacked central area, parking, offices, 7,000 sq.m of warehousing, etc). Djibouti Dry Port (DPP) ...

The commercial division of the High Court of Kenya is to hear an application in Mombasa on 22 May for the winding up of Africa Merchant Assurance Co (AMACO). Creditors and other interested parties are ...

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

A handful of French military veterans gave training to around 20 Senegalese officers in November. The officers who received the training are active in a range of services, from the gendarmerie to ...

At the end of September, China First Highway Engineering Co (CFHEC) won the competitive tender launched by Douala mayor Roger Mbassa Ndine for the construction of the Wouri River embankment road. The ...

Franco-Beninese citizen Claude Dohou will be appointed Deputy Grand Master of the Grande Loge Nationale Française (GNLF) on 14 December in Paris. The GNLF is one of the main "regular" Masonic lodges ...

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, ...

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 ...

Lesotho's Chamber of Mines, presided over by the CEO of Storm Mountain Diamonds, Mohale Ralikariki, is dead set against the new tax regime parliament is about to ratify. Its members believe that some ...

The tender call for the installation of a second submarine cable link to Mauritania was launched in August and has attracted two foreign firms and one local company.