Philippe Mbella, nephew of Cameroon's foreign minister, Lejeune Mbella Mbella, has been remanded in custody at Kondengui central prison. He is suspected of playing a central role in a network aimed at ...

Under Ismaël Diakité 's leadership, its president since September 2019, the national mining firms body, the Chambre des Mines de Guinée, has protected its members from the series of terminations ...

Under the watchful eye of Paris and Brussels, the French employers' association, Medef, is working on organising a European forum in the French capital, with the hope of reviving private investment ...

French Equality Minister Aurore Bergé, will take part in a conference alongside key figures from the Moroccan feminist ...

The congress of the Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) presidential party is due to be held on 21 and 22 June, but Alassane Ouattara is not expected to announce his ...

The Algerian Ministry of Justice, headed by Lotfi Boudjemaa, has just selected the Paris-based law firm Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes to represent it in its dispute with the German company ...

Shipping giant CMA CGM is planning to expand its operations in South Africa. Led from Marseille by Rodolphe Saadé (AI, 29/11/24), the French group wants to develop an air and rail freight business in ...

It has not escaped Morocco's notice that the last countries to have hosted a World Cup – Qatar and Russia in particular – have had disastrous environmental records. Always keen to improve its ...

There's a new operator for South Africa Block 1, strategically located in the heart of the Orange Basin, on the border with Namibia. Its name: Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas. The Canadian company officialised ...

A former police inspector who converted into real estate, Moussa Touati, wants to stand in the presidential election on April 8 on condition the Constitutional Council agrees. Touati made his debut in ...

The Ivorian subsidary of French bank Société générale (SGCI), run by Patrick Blas, is dealing with a series of resignations, the number of which have risen fast in the last few months. Serge Tano, in ...

Colonel Émile Joël Bamkoui, the very powerful head of military security (SEMIL), was pensioned off on 3 April after 35 years spent in the National Gendarmerie and has been replaced by Colonel Melingui ...