Speaking at a press conference in Paris on 5 February, TotalEnergies' CEO said he was particularly optimistic about the ...

The designation of the ex-minister of security and current minister of state in charge of elections, Mariano Matsinhe, to lead the government party Frelimo's campaign for the future multi-party ...

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 ...

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 ...

Representing UNDP in Senegal since 1999, Ahmed Rhazoui, a Moroccan born in Settat, has just been named head of the U.N. ?West Africa? bureau based in Dakar. Rhazaoui, an economist by training who ...

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 ...

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, ...

Since the victory of the Labour Party/Mouvement Militant Mauricien coalition in December's general election, Marie France Roussety has been trying to become the Mauritian ambassador to France. Her ...

The chairman of Southern Ethiopia Peoples' Democratic Coalition (SEPDC) and National Democratic Coalition (NDC) was elected chairman of the conference for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia, held in ...

The former mayor of Nairobi (ION N° 565) who had resigned in protest against the government blocking him and was then elected to parliament on October 31 in a parliamentary by-election at Starehe, a ...

Italian businessman Luciano Fragola who runs the Eldo group has dropped his project for an industrial zone specializing in clothing textiles, " Carthage Fashion City, " that was to have opened in the ...

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 ...