Retired major general Athmane Tartag, also known as Bachir, the former head of the DRS intelligence and security agency, has been placed under house arrest in the west Algerian city of Oran, where he ...

Angola's Force Petroleum is no longer a shareholder in the onshore block Cabinda South, located in Angola's oil-rich Cabinda province, the exclave wedged between the Republic of Congo and the DRC. The ...

His association with TGV has boosted the activities of the Sodiat group he set up in May 1990 and which today counts a dozen or so companies in different fields of activity. In return, Ravatomanga ...

The son of an Algerian diplomat, Anouar El Mili, is reportedly being sought by the Algerian and American authorities for money-laundering. El Mili has already been sentenced in absentia to 10 years in ...

A book on Mozambique is to be published by a retired general who for five years headed Dinfo, the army's intelligence services (re-christened Dimil). Xito Rodrigues will disclose details of Portugal's ...

The former minister for industrial development Yekoyada Francis Omoto Masakhalia has inherited the finance portfolio, taking over from outgoing Simeon Nyachae, who was moved to another ministerial ...

The formal end to the civil war in Sierra with the burning of a pile of weapons on Jan. 18 in Freetown to symbolize peace could well have had something to do with the decision of two other mining ...

The defence team of former rebel leader Dominic Ongwen is contesting the sum, arguing that the victim count has been overestimated. But the victims' lawyers have rejected these arguments and support ...

Thanks to his close friendship with Leo Mugabe, the nephew of Zimbabwe's head of state Robert Mugabe (ION N° 613), Saudi businessman Hani A. Z. Yamani is lying in pole position to win the contract to ...

The European Union is set to send humanitarian aid to Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria which was struck by devastating floods after a dam broke on 11 September following unusually heavy rains.

President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique appointed a new general secretary to the presidency last week at the same time as he formed his government. Antonio Correia Fernandes Sumbana replaces Murade ...

The road leading to the site of the future Sahofika dam (205MW), the largest electricity production project in Madagascar, around 100km south of Antananarivo, is about to have a complete makeover.