Baowu Steel has strengthened its teams on the Mount Simandou iron ore megaproject, with around 150 people, mainly from China.

The former mayor of Nairobi (ION N° 565) who had resigned in protest against the government blocking him and was then elected to parliament on October 31 in a parliamentary by-election at Starehe, a ...

Dubai-based trading company Coral Energy, now 2Rivers Group, has set up yet another firm to carry out its activities, in particular in Africa. It is registered in the Emirati city-state and is called ...

The former commandant of the Comoros Islands gendarmerie and head of the utility Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures Mahamoud Mradabi has just founded a new political party in Moroni called Mouvement ...

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The Mauritius council of ministers last week finally named Ghislaine Henry as the country's new ambassador to Madagascar, more than a year after having earmarked her for the post (ION 775). Ms. Henry ...

President France Albert René's appointment of his young wife, Sarah René, as member and vice chairman of the board of the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) has stirred fresh criticism of the ...

The former governor of Tanzania/s central bank, the Bank of Tanzania, Idris Rashid whose contract expired last July, has not taken long to find a new job. He has become director general of Akiba ...

The Association of Honorary Consuls of Cameroon (Amicale des Consuls Honoraires du Cameroun) will soon be making its appearance. These diplomats are in the process of setting up this influential ...

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, ...

Renamed Hadin Kai, the military operation fighting terrorism in northern Nigeria welcomed its new intelligence director this week. Brigadier General Adebayo Adekola took up the post in Maiduguri, the ...

The chairman of the new Algerian bank BNP Paribas El Djazair (which is wholly owned by BNP Paribas and has a registered capital of 500 million dinar), Fathi Mestiri, is highly familiar with Arab ...