Katanga, Kipushi Corp still has to build a new exit road for its zinc production. But the planned route encroaches on a ...

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.

A member of deputy prime minister Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) party is being tipped as chairman of Sicom, the state-owned insurance company. Ho Chan Fong will take over the post ...

Several embassies that covered Eritrea from the Sudanese capital have had to take refuge in Ethiopia since the start of the civil war more than a year ago. But the historical rivalry and growing ...

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 ...

On 17 September, the Chadian government suffered a major setback before the Paris Court of Appeal in its dispute with the telecoms company N-Soft (AI, 16/08/22) when judges overturned a ruling handed ...

Daniel Chapo, the frontrunner in next month's presidential election in Mozambique, paid an unpublicised visit to Kigali in June where he met Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who has become the key ...

Brother in law of Tunisia's ambassador to Paris, Bousnina Mongi, Fethi Houidi has just been fired from his job as president of ERTT (Etablissement de la Radiodifusion et de la Television Tunisienne) ...

The regularity with which Arab donors have been awarding the projects that they are financing to the Egyptian firm The Arab Contractors has brought this company to the fore and has enabled the Uganda ...

A 56-year-old civil servant holding a degree in economic sciences and serving as wali (prefect) of Djelfa up to now, Addou Mohamed Kebir, has been named head of the wilaya of Algiers. Related by ...

US giant General Electric and Japanese firm Mitsubishi are neck and neck in a race to win the contract to build a gas plant in Al Wahda for the Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable ...

With no consensus among its members, it is the head of state Joaquim Chissano who has named Jamisse Taimo chairman of Comissao Nacional de Eleiçoes charged with organizing the general election in ...