The request should land on the desk of African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye before the end of the week: Somalia, which is seeking to replace the ...

Last month's announcement that the Central Bank of Seychelles governor Aboo Aumeeruddy would be on medical leave until further notice for treatment in France was an advance sign of his forthcoming ...

A former member of the now defunct Federal Democratic Movement and today leader of a group of anti-government rebels based inside Uganda (see "Museveni plays it carefully", page 2 in this issue), Fred ...

The new director general of Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), Etherton Mpisaunga who replaces Joseph F. Chigwedere in this post, will have a lot to do if he wants to pull up the management of this ...

Angola's Force Petroleum is no longer a shareholder in the onshore block Cabinda South, located in Angola's oil-rich Cabinda province, the exclave wedged between the Republic of Congo and the DRC. The ...

The road leading to the site of the future Sahofika dam (205MW), the largest electricity production project in Madagascar, around 100km south of Antananarivo, is about to have a complete makeover.

The pan-African banking group Vista Bank, founded by Simon Tiemtoré, an American originally from Burkina Faso, has just seen the departure of two of its key figures, including Stéphane Ouédraogo, vice ...

Genielake, an Algerian building firm run by Noureddine Lakelak, was one of the guests of honour at UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) at its Plantworx building and public works fair near Birmingham between ...

The son of an Algerian diplomat, Anouar El Mili, is reportedly being sought by the Algerian and American authorities for money-laundering. El Mili has already been sentenced in absentia to 10 years in ...

Retired major general Athmane Tartag, also known as Bachir, the former head of the DRS intelligence and security agency, has been placed under house arrest in the west Algerian city of Oran, where he ...

The designation of the ex-minister of security and current minister of state in charge of elections, Mariano Matsinhe, to lead the government party Frelimo's campaign for the future multi-party ...

The former minister for industrial development Yekoyada Francis Omoto Masakhalia has inherited the finance portfolio, taking over from outgoing Simeon Nyachae, who was moved to another ministerial ...