Two representatives of the US giant Heinz Foods are currently in The Seychelles finalizing negotiations to take over the state-owned tuna canning plant Conserveries de l'Océan Indien (ION N° 649).

Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam on November 24 suspended Raj Dayal as police commissioner after a long-running dispute (ION N° 787) and appointed a special inquiry commission headed by former chief ...

Increasingly concerned about the advance of the M23 rebels in the east of the country, DRC president Felix Tshisekedi has been scouring for help abroad to push his case. For several weeks now, ...

Two years after Cyclone Idai tore through Sofala province in central Mozambique, the state-owned electricity firm Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is looking to contract a company to replace the 110 ...

N'Djamena is strengthening its diplomatic presence in Paris by changing its ambassador. In the past few weeks, Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif put forward the name of Ahmad Makaila, the current ...

All signs point to 2023 being the year BP will achieve first gas on Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) located along the border between Mauritania and Senegal. This year will also mark the start of ...

In accordance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), Washington reserves the right to block any sale that involves American components. The effectiveness of the TB2, which was designed ...

Khama's election to the board of the Irish oil company Tullow Oil in 2019, has added one more directorship to her track record, which includes the Franco-Swiss cement giant LafargeHolcim. In Botswana, ...

Signs of Burundian troops in the eastern DRC province of South Kivu have been mounting in recent weeks, even if both Gitega and Kinshasa insist the Forces armées du Burundi (FAB) are not present on ...

Set up in Lomé in 2015 and run by a Togolese businessman who keeps a very low profile, the small IP and Internet TV channel New World TV has made a substantial bid for the broadcasting rights in ...

The remaining 35%, owned by ADP, are hotly, although discreetly, coveted by Meridiam. In the event the fund, chaired by Thierry Déau, did buy these shares, it would become Ravinala's sole shareholder.

President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh in Nairobi, Kenya, 13 September 2022. © Billy Mutai/Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via AFP ...