A Tunisian consultant, Ridha Mahjoub, has just set up Star Export to advise companies seeking to set up shop in Algeria and Libya. Star Export is to open offices in both countries. Mahjoub’s partner ...

Moulay Idriss Filali, whose mother is King Mohammed VI's elder sister, is gradually expanding his economic empire. With help ...

Since the arrest of a man with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien Fanambinana Soananata.

The Ivorian president will head to France on 15 January for personal reasons on a visit that coincides with his Angolan ...

ODEP, the agency that manages Morocco's ports, has announced a 114 million DH program to upgrade the port of Safi with the acquisition of new cranes and a tug. The program is aimed at increasing the ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

Two rival chambers of commerce, the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and Seychelles Chamber of Commerce decided last week to merge. The chairman of the new SCCI is Micky Mason, ...

It is his former deputy Teklewold Atnafu who replaces the governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Dubale Jale since the beginning of March. Dubale was at the head of the Ethiopian central ...

Kenya's former secretary to the government and head of the Kenyan civil service (until unexpectedly replaced by Dr. Richard Leakey in July) took up his new functions this week as Kenyan permanent ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

For the first time in the history of the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), the oldest farming organization of the country has elected a woman managing director, following the departure of ...

The former director of the European Commission's DG VIII (relations with ACP countries and South Africa), Peter Pooley, has been named to head British Africa Business Association (BABA). The new ...