The former premier plans to open his own company specialising in financial support for African countries, which could bring ...

As part of the French president's visit to Madagascar on 22 April, a meeting will be held between Medef and the Groupement ...

Initially scheduled for 24 and 25 April, the Forum Invest in Senegal event is in danger of being postponed until November for ...

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 ...

A whole raft of Madagascar's business elite, some of them well over sixty, are in the process of organising their succession. These founding owners of major companies, most of whom are French ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tunisian government's deepening financial crisis has not entirely put the brakes on the armed forces' spending spree. According to sources in Tunis, the French missile manufacturer MBDA and ...

According to our information, late last year the Swiss trader Vitol was forced to give up its CI-202, CI-523 and CI-525 offshore blocks, the licences for their exploration having expired. The first ...

After having begun his career as a modest seller of foodstuffs, 63-year-old Mohamed Ould Bouamatou has gradually established himself as a major business figure in Mauritania. His BSA group is present ...