The big Algerian-Chinese project to market phosphates from eastern Algeria has fallen victim to the political crisis. On April 23, Entreprise Portuaire d'Annaba, the company chosen to build a terminal ...

Mohammed VI’s cousin, Princess Lalla Noufissa El Yacoubi and her family are looking to establish themselves in the hotel business in the Dakhla area, where there is enormous tourist potential. Their ...

Transamine has interests across the world and is already familiar with Morocco. The company buys minerals from other companies, and also acquired a stake in tin explorer Kasbah Resources (AI, 12/03/13 ...

The fact that US major ExxonMobil is overseeing the 18 million tonne per annum Rovuma LNG project located near to Mozambique LNG in the Afungi zone in northern Mozambique greatly boosts TotalEnergies' ...

Engineer and geologist Yahya Zinbi, head of Kharrouba Copper Mining (KCM), operator of the Jbiel copper mine (65 km from Marrakech) wants to get into cobalt. In March, his team determined that 5% of ...

Now that its joint venture partnership with Toyota Tshusho Corp on the Achmach tin project in Morocco has been completed (talks are underway to finance construction of a mine) Kasbah Resources has ...

The secretary-general of Algeria's security agency Direction Generale de la Surete Nationale (DGSN), Mahmoud Mohand-Amokrane, is to attend courses this year at France's Institute for Higher Domestic ...

Vololomiora Rabarijaona, acting chargé d'affaires of the Madagascan embassy since November 2019, is having to deal with the South African authorities' refusal to open dialogue in the absence of an ...

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 ...

Affiliated to the United Grand Lodge of England, most African masonic lodges are said to be "regular", meaning in theory they do not accept any political debate within their organisation. Yet there ...

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko is considering a visit to Ivory Coast, which could take place in the first fortnight of April. It would be the first trip by the leader of the African Patriots ...

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 ...