Having flung open the doors of the Marina presidential palace in Cotonou since 19 February to allow the country's traditional rulers and the Beninese people to admire 26 royal treasures returned by ...

N'Djamena is strengthening its diplomatic presence in Paris by changing its ambassador. In the past few weeks, Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif put forward the name of Ahmad Makaila, the current ...

Vololomiora Rabarijaona, acting chargé d'affaires of the Madagascan embassy since November 2019, is having to deal with the South African authorities' refusal to open dialogue in the absence of an ...

The Alteo alumina factory in Gardanne. © REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier ...

Transamine has interests across the world and is already familiar with Morocco. The company buys minerals from other companies, and also acquired a stake in tin explorer Kasbah Resources (AI, 12/03/13 ...

At the regional level, the Turkish naval defence industry made its first breakthrough back in 2021 with the sale of two ...

The last four Belgian military personnel who were still working in Niger returned home in December. Despite the suspension of its defence collaboration with Niamey following the July 2023 coup that ...

All signs point to 2023 being the year BP will achieve first gas on Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) located along the border between Mauritania and Senegal. This year will also mark the start of ...

The appearance before the Paris court last month of the former doyen of examining magistrates in Nice, Jean-Paul Renard, curiously raked up an old Seychelles history. Renard, who had been ousted from ...

It is not a new ambassador, but a chargé d’affaires who has just been appointed to London by the Ethiopian government. Born in 1955 at Fitche in the present Oromia Regional State, Fisseha Adugna ...

MAROCINVEST FINANCE GROUP has just started up business as a new investment consultant. It has a registered venture/development capital of $20 million. Its shareholders include the World Bank affiliate ...

The son of the late general Raveloson Mahasampo and of Ms. Hortense Raveloson (MP and head of state Didier Ratsiraka's sister-in-law) dreams of becoming governor of Toliara Province, in southern ...