TP Mazembe, the Lubumbashi club, are supposed to have all their travel costs covered by the Ministry of Finance. But since ...

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, ...

Elected a member of parliament five months ago, Abdelkrim Ghrieb has given up his seat. On post in Bamako as Algeria’s envoy to Mali, Ghrieb has decided to remain in that job. Ghrieb is the leading ...

After having been replaced by Ibrahim Ahmed Omar as secretary general of Sudan's National Congress (NC) this week, former Speaker of Parliament Hassan Al Turabi broke with the government party to set ...

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 ...

The trade department at the French embassy in Nouakchott recently published a survey on the big family groups that corner most of Mauritania's economy. Top dog is the MAOA group (owned by Mohamed ...

Sunergy Inc will begin doing the rounds of potential investors and banks in coming weeks to drum up finance for its new operations in Sierra Leone. The American junior, based in Arizona, has just ...

A financial expert who was elected to parliament on the MSM/MMM's winning electoral list, Sushil Kushiram was given the wide-ranging ministerial portfolio for financial services, corporate affairs and ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

The South African businessman Tony Teixeira has just pulled off a major coup. Otterbea International, which is 80.1% owned by Teixeira's company Diamond-Works, has just won an exclusive contract to ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

The elder son of Joaquim Chissano is continuously in the limelight, and the Mozambique president’s reputation may not survive unscathed (ION 940). Already two years ago, the Chissano family had felt ...