Namibian Parabola Investments is on the cusp of obtaining its first permit to mine copper and gold southwest of Rehoboth in the middle of the country. The request for this permit, covering almost ...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide financing for construction of the Zaghloul El Bahary wastewater treatment plant in the city of Kafr El Sheikh in northern Egypt. The project, which is ...

A veteran of double-pronged diplomacy, Touadéra has recently initiated a rapprochement with Paris in an effort to distance ...

Gold miner Robex is considering a management buyout for its Malian Nampala mine and listing the company on the Australian ...

Abdourahamane Tchiani's administration is about to finalise an unprecedented acquisition from Turkish drone manufacturer ...

While work is being completed on the road between Kitale and Lokichogio (western Kenya), which is intended to eventually improve trade with southern Sudan, Nairobi is working on the renovation of ...

The Tunisian government's deepening financial crisis has not entirely put the brakes on the armed forces' spending spree. According to sources in Tunis, the French missile manufacturer MBDA and ...

Casablanca's gigantic high-tech video surveillance project, officially dedicated to traffic control but above all aimed at serving the national police force, the DGSN (Direction Générale de la Sûreté ...

Since President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz came to power in 2009, a number of members of his Oulad Bou Sbaa tribe have obtained key posts in the Mauritanian administration. Ahmed Salem Ould Tekrour, ...

The firm Greenstone Mining - a company based in Swaziland but with British shareholders - has found a well-known local partner in order to give impetus to its grandiose projects in Mozambique. These ...

High-level forest summits are coming up thick and fast. Gabon's One Forest Summit is set to get under way on 1 March, while, in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso is ...