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

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 ...

The regularity with which Arab donors have been awarding the projects that they are financing to the Egyptian firm The Arab Contractors has brought this company to the fore and has enabled the Uganda ...

The six young daughters of Portugal's late industrial magnate Jorge Jardim, are currently preparing a trip to Maputo on November first. Jardim used to live in Mozambique but opposed FRELIMO coming to ...

The new chairman of the Mauritian Syndicat des Sucres has been a well-known cane sugar planter in the Riche-en-Eau region since 1959. A former MP in Parliament (1976-1987) and former chairman of ...

A former member of the now defunct Federal Democratic Movement and today leader of a group of anti-government rebels based inside Uganda (see "Museveni plays it carefully", page 2 in this issue), Fred ...

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 ...

The year has started badly for the boss of Malagasy company Ocean Trade, whose name appears on the list of companies which benefitted from undue fiscal exemptions. Police officers and gendarmerie ...