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 ...

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 ...

As a member of the Nigerian delegation led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Paris in November, Defence Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar was approached by a handful of French companies. Some of the ...

Management of Chad's oil revenues is a family affair. Seventy three per cent of the $12 billion revenues accumulated since 2003 and 90% of exports are accounted for by the entourage of President Idris ...

Located 550 km south-west of Addis Ababa in the regional state of Oromia, the Yayu coal field was discovered in 1996 by the Ethiopian Institute for Geological Surveys (EIGS). Late last year, four ...

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 ...

Jean-Louis Billon is a case apart in Ivory Coast. He is heir to the leading private sector group, SIFCA, which was founded by his father, Pierre Billon, but is reputed to scorn networking in a country ...

The Zambian mining sector has been in a state of high tension since populist Michael Sata became the country's president at the end of September 2011. During his election campaign, Sata promised to ...

Development works for the Mbalam-Nabeba cross-border iron ore mining project may soon commence. An official ceremony to mark the handover of equipment required to launch operations is due to be held ...

The Congolese president has enlisted the services of the lobbying firm GlobalPoint in a bid to get closer to Donald Trump's ...

Secretary of State for Tourism Lamia Boutaleb succeeded in heading off the "Southbridge affair" by cancelling the consultancy contract awarded to a company owned by a member of her RNI party (MC 1260) ...

Mali may be Africa's third largest gold producer, the government is still not in control of its gold refining sector although two refiners, Kankou Moussa Refinery (KMR) and Marena Gold Mali, have been ...