Princess Lalla Noufissa el Yacoubi, who is a pioneer in the Western Sahara hotel sector, is steadily progressing round the Dakhla lagoon. The princess, a cousin of Mohammed VI, who already owns 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 ...

A first CH-4 combat drone system has been delivered to the DRC by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC). The batch, which includes three drones in addition to a ground station, is ...

The Rio Tinto representative arrived in Conakry a few days ago to discuss with Winning Consortium potential collaborations on the Simandou iron project's infrastructures.

As people in the Central African Republic prepare to vote in Sunday's referendum on constitutional changes, the country's armed groups appear not to be in a position to repeat the disruption they ...

Fortunat Biselele, the discreet but powerful advisor to Félix Tshisekedi, played a key role in the DRC's rapprochement with Israel in recent weeks (see WAN 820).It was he who persuaded the Congolese ...

Although he is now over 70, Franco-Greek businessman Panayotis Taloumis, known by his friends as "Pana", remains an authoritarian figure who keeps a tight hold on the reins of his group. A genuine ...

Jean-Louis Billon is a case apart in Ivory Coast. He is heir to the leading private sector group, SIFCA, which was founded by his father, Pierre Billon, but is reputed to scorn networking in a country ...

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 ...

With his Franco-Malagasy nationality, his Karana Indian origins, his Italian wife and Indian overseas citizenship, Ylias Akbaraly is a businessman with an international outlook. He was trained by his ...

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 ...

Discussions about combating irregular migration are continuing between Abuja and London. Having visited the British capital last month, the Nigerian Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo could host his ...