The German company Heitkamp has initiated proceedings against Algeria before the World Bank's arbitration tribunal. The ...

In addition to this project, teams from the Guinean embassy in the United States are working to attract American investors to their country. To this end, they recently established ties with Windmill ...

Spotlight | Gabon Oligui Nguema launches post-referendum battle for control of BGFIBank The transition president wants the Bongo clan's holding company Delta Synergie to hand over its shares in the ...

Mahmoud Youssouf is off to Addis Ababa to serve as president of the African Union Commission, leaving a coveted vacancy back in Djibouti. With just over a year before the country heads to the polls, ...

President Donald Trump's administration recently appointed Bryan J. Ellis as the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs. He will have the role of overseeing military cooperation ...

Already allied with Raila Odinga, Ruto campaigned in 2007 against the then head of state Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu, in a vote that ended in a bloody post-election crisis dominated by identity-based ...

According to Maghreb Confidential’s sources, Jean-Marc Pizano, a French businessman resident in South Africa, recently got back in touch with the authorities in Tobruk to propose selling them 15 Mi-35 ...

Italy's Hacking Team went through middlemen to sell more than €3 million worth of spy software to the kingdom's security agencies. E-mails from the Italian firm, leaked on July 6, revealed it had ...

Brian Muriuki, a prominent oil advisor who has both the ear of the Kenyan minister of petroleum and mining John Munyes and his principal secretary Andrew Kamau, is heading west.He was appointed ...

On 20 February, the Tanzanian government will have a meeting with Phillip Canham, the chairman of Canham Corporation International (CCI), to discuss his proposals for a rail link between Mtwara on the ...

On the lookout for ways to diversify the country's oil partners for months, South Sudan president Salva Kiir has asked his oil minister, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, to speed up the highly sensitive file of ...

Tensions have been on a knife's edge since January at the small-scale 3T (tin, tantalum, tungsten) and gold sites previously mined by Shamika Resources in the Nyabibwe area of South Kivu, with a host ...