In just one year, the Pan-African Youth Union will have had no less than three executive directors. The most recent appointment, which was made a few weeks ago, was that of Imane Ibn El Melih, a ...

Two representatives of the US giant Heinz Foods are currently in The Seychelles finalizing negotiations to take over the state-owned tuna canning plant Conserveries de l'Océan Indien (ION N° 649).

Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam on November 24 suspended Raj Dayal as police commissioner after a long-running dispute (ION N° 787) and appointed a special inquiry commission headed by former chief ...

N'Djamena is strengthening its diplomatic presence in Paris by changing its ambassador. In the past few weeks, Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif put forward the name of Ahmad Makaila, the current ...

Two years after Cyclone Idai tore through Sofala province in central Mozambique, the state-owned electricity firm Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is looking to contract a company to replace the 110 ...

The CEO of French bank Credit Agricole, Philippe Brassac, is expected in Cairo over the next few days to take part in the CICA's (Confédération Internationale du Crédit agricole) annual congress, ...

Italian defence group Leonardo is set to score a hat-trick in the Maghreb. Already on the offensive in Algeria (MC 1276) and Tunisia (MC 1282), where it is trying to sell its spy planes and transport ...

All signs point to 2023 being the year BP will achieve first gas on Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) located along the border between Mauritania and Senegal. This year will also mark the start of ...

Though Africa is a priority for UNESCO, the continent having its own dedicated assistant director, it is significantly under-represented in the upper echelons of the institution run by Audrey Azoulay.

He served briefly as adviser to prime minister Jacques Sylla from 2002 to 2004 but, since then, has avoided taking political sides too openly in public. He has not forgotten the problems encountered ...

The Congolese president is expected to travel to Tripoli and Benghazi in early December in his capacity as chairman of the African Union's high-level committee on the Libyan crisis.

Signs of Burundian troops in the eastern DRC province of South Kivu have been mounting in recent weeks, even if both Gitega and Kinshasa insist the Forces armées du Burundi (FAB) are not present on ...