A financial expert who was elected to parliament on the MSM/MMM's winning electoral list, Sushil Kushiram was given the wide-ranging ministerial portfolio for financial services, corporate affairs and ...

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 ...

The tender call for the installation of a second submarine cable link to Mauritania was launched in August and has attracted two foreign firms and one local company.

Total Gabon has reached agreement with its personnel at the Cap Lopez oil terminal on the terms of their departure from the company and transfer to Perenco. The Franco-British group announced at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following its opening in Senegal in July (AI, 04/11/24), the new Africa-Russia-Eurasia Chamber of Commerce and Investment is making plans for a major maiden summit. It aims to bring delegations from ...

In mid-November the Indian company KEC International, which has been making big dents on the African market (AI, 19/10/20), won the tender for the construction of a 77km-long electricity transmission ...

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire has just given the French state's guarantee to a major €150m loan to Senegal. The decision was contained in a decree dated 21 March. The funds will be made ...

Nearly two years after winning the tender for the Makelele gas block in Lake Kivu, US company Symbion Power has still not finalised its contract with the Congolese authorities. The project in question ...

The corporate brand and communication manager (since 1995) of Shell on Mauritius has been chosen by the government as board chairman of Export Processing Zones Development Authority (EPZDA), taking ...

Société d'Entreprise Houar, a company founded in Oujda, Morocco, by businessman Driss Houar, has won two strategic road contracts in Senegal worth nearly €100m. That includes the construction of an 11 ...