The new trade counsellor at the French embassy in Tripoli, Jean-Louis Fontenille, won't suffer cultural shock in the byzantime atmosphere in Tripoli. He has just spent four years in Damascus and had ...

The minister and his new director have known each other for many years. In the early 2000s when he was at the helm of the SNPC, Itoua dispatched Onanga to train as an oil engineer in Houston.

The Algerian Energy Company (AEC), a 100% subsidiary of state-owned Sonatrach that is tasked with rolling out desalination plants across the country, is in a race against time to prevent the water ...

US oil major ExxonMobil is cautiously moving forward in the Angolan part of the Namibe Basin. On 6 November, it obtained permission from the authorities to extend the initial exploration period on its ...

On 13 April, the executive secretary of the country's largest union Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU), Kitso Phiri, was forced to back down under pressure from the authorities and released a ...

Another $200m will be made available to the government for the construction of 5,000 social housing units in the capital and its northern suburbs. In addition, $250m is expected to be earmarked for ...

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, ...

American businessman Evens Saint Clair, who registered his mining firm SWR International in Guinea in June, has filed the company's first permit application. In early January, SWR International ...

The 2022 edition of the Africa Aerospace & Defence (AAD) expo, South Africa's red-letter defence gathering, is slated for 21-25 September at Waterkloof airbase on the outskirts of Pretoria. The event ...

The Rwandan Ministry of Economy and Finance, run by Uzziel Ndagijimana, is looking for a partner to develop its 'national branding' strategy. A prior information notice announcing a call for ...

Two years after Cyclone Idai tore through Sofala province in central Mozambique, the state-owned electricity firm Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is looking to contract a company to replace the 110 ...

While work is being completed on the road between Kitale and Lokichogio (western Kenya), which is intended to eventually improve trade with southern Sudan, Nairobi is working on the renovation of ...