A new first counsellor (number two) of the French embassy in Nairobi will take up his duties in mid-August. Born in 1971, Yves Gounin has a diploma from Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Economiques et ...

After serving a first term as governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Leonard Tsumba has been re-appointed to the post by head of state Robert Mugabe, for a five-year term. Now 63, Tsumba studied ...

Former head of state Jakaya Kikwete, who was the new president's political mentor, has also been playing a behind-the-scenes role at the presidential palaces in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma with a view to ...

Tema LNG Terminal Co (TLTC), the company which owns Ghana's Tema LNG import terminal, was over-optimistic in its forecast of the date for Shell's first LNG delivery to the terminal. The delivery, ...

Several international operators are positioning themselves with a view to taking on the project to modernise the port of Matadi, which lies halfway between the mouth of the Congo River and Kinshasa, ...

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 ...

On Sadiba's orders, army and police officers led respectively by Colonel Mamadi Condé, commander of the military region of Kankan, and Abdel Kader Touré, the director of security in the same region, ...

The CEO of construction group Ebomaf is expanding his sphere of influence in Gabon through a sector he is particularly fond ...

Since the crisis began in 2011, the AU has made a tentative effort to push for a peaceful resolution, although its chances of success are so slim that none of the actors involved in the conflict has ...

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 ...

Last month's announcement that the Central Bank of Seychelles governor Aboo Aumeeruddy would be on medical leave until further notice for treatment in France was an advance sign of his forthcoming ...

For the first time in the history of the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), the oldest farming organization of the country has elected a woman managing director, following the departure of ...