Pending a replacement for the ailing Olivier Hugues Rija Rajohnson, Lionel Ratsirimpady has been appointed chargé d'affaires.

At the end of March, Kenya's Mines Minister Ali Hassan Joho acknowledged receipt of two new applications for exploration licences in the country. The public has 42 days following the ministry's notice ...

Ever since 23 December, when a man bound for Dubai via Addis Ababa was arrested at Antananarivo's Ivato airport with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien ...

Having been prohibited from leaving Gabon for almost seven years, opposition politician Jean Ping, who still insists he rather than Ali Bongo was the rightful winner of the 2016 presidential election, ...

The secretary-general of Algeria's security agency Direction Generale de la Surete Nationale (DGSN), Mahmoud Mohand-Amokrane, is to attend courses this year at France's Institute for Higher Domestic ...

In the meantime, Rajaonarimampianina had been bold and far-seeing enough to stand in the presidential election under the colours of his own political movement, the Hery Vaovao hoan'i Madagasikara ...

When he came to power on December 21 2010, President Alpha Conde promised a "new era". Two years on, it has become clear that management of the country's mineral resources is more than ever under his ...

The 38th Francophonie summit, bringing together 88 member states and governments from the International Francophonie Organisation (OIF), will begin, as planned, on 18 November in Djerba in Tunisia, ...

Now that its joint venture partnership with Toyota Tshusho Corp on the Achmach tin project in Morocco has been completed (talks are underway to finance construction of a mine) Kasbah Resources has ...

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko is considering a visit to Ivory Coast, which could take place in the first fortnight of April. It would be the first trip by the leader of the African Patriots ...

Nearly a year after establishing its subsidiary in Conakry in March 2024, China's leading steelmaker Baowu Steel has strengthened its presence in the Simandou mega-mining project, where it is both a ...

Total Gabon has reached agreement with its personnel at the Cap Lopez oil terminal on the terms of their departure from the company and transfer to Perenco. The Franco-British group announced at the ...