The European Union is set to send humanitarian aid to Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria which was struck by devastating floods after a dam broke on 11 September following unusually heavy rains.

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 ...

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 ...

As president of the Council of the European Union from July to December, Hungary's leader Viktor Orbán wants to put the Sahel on the Brussels agenda. To this end, his foreign minister Péter Szijjártó ...

The minister, who is close to Russia, seems to be falling out of favour with President Touadéra. Earlier this month, he was prevented from leaving the country to receive medical treatment. Livestock ...

The European Investment Bank is to co-finance the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in Kafr el-Sheik, in the north of the country. The project is expected to cost €23m.

The cards have been reshuffled in the race to become UfM's secretary general after the front-runner, Jordanian national ...

JOANNOU & PARASKEVAIDES J&P OVERSEAS (Greece) has won a contract to build a 120 km-long gas pipeline between Melitah and Tripoli.

The nomination of the chief magistrate of Nairobi to the supreme court strongly resembles a reward for the loyalty he has displayed towards the régime of President Daniel arap Moi, particularly in the ...

BROWN & ROOT-CONDOR, a joint engineering venture between Sonatrach and the U.S. firm Brown & Root, an affiliate of Halliburton, posted net earnings of 1.9 billion dinar in 2001. Headed by Abdelmoumen ...

A meeting between African ambassadors to the European Union, the Africa directorate of the European External Action Service and the Directorate-General for International Partnerships is due to take ...

Several players in the new information technologies sector are in the running to win two contracts to develop digital governance and identity management in Madagascar. By the end of the month, the ...