A new secure compound for diplomats and business travellers is going up in Tripoli, the most dangerous capital city in North Africa. Irish-Libyan citizen Abdullah Duibi, 31, is due to open the site in ...

The Ruashi copper and cobalt mine, owned by China's Jinchuan Group, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Haut-Katanga province is functioning normally, despite the difficulties currently facing NB ...

US oil major ExxonMobil is cautiously moving forward in the Angolan part of the Namibe Basin. On 6 November, it obtained permission from the authorities to extend the initial exploration period on its ...

Barring any last-minute changes, President Kaïs Saïed is to travel to Nouakchott before the end of the month for an official visit to his Mauritanian counterpart Mohamed Ould Ghazouani. Though no ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lot of changes at the top have occurred at the West African Portland Cement Company Plc (WAPCO) since it was taken over by Lafarge when the French group bought its parent company, Blue Circle ...

TotalEnergies' wait-and-see attitude is closely linked to the security context, which improved at the beginning of the year before deteriorating significantly in July and August (AI, 12/07/22).

The minister and his new director have known each other for many years. In the early 2000s when he was at the helm of the SNPC, Itoua dispatched Onanga to train as an oil engineer in Houston.

On paper, it was unlikely Jazouli would be involved in the operation in which the United States agreed to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara region in return for Rabat renewing its ...

Affiliated to the United Grand Lodge of England, most African masonic lodges are said to be "regular", meaning in theory they do not accept any political debate within their organisation. Yet there ...