The minister and his new director have known each other for many years. In the early 2000s when he was at the helm of the SNPC, Itoua dispatched Onanga to train as an oil engineer in Houston.

The Tunisian government's deepening financial crisis has not entirely put the brakes on the armed forces' spending spree. According to sources in Tunis, the French missile manufacturer MBDA and ...

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 ...

The Rio Tinto representative arrived in Conakry a few days ago to discuss with Winning Consortium potential collaborations on the Simandou iron project's infrastructures.

While now in charge of the foreign intelligence unit DSE (Direction des Services Extérieurs), Vassiriki Traoré will continue to serve as national intelligence coordinator, a role he has held since ...

Col Assimi Goita, the vice-president of Mali's Transitional Council, has accelerated the motorization of the FAMa, which has just received a French donation of 20 MassTech pick-ups. These will ...

Mugwagwa's two fellow directors come from the Hong Kong financial sector. Cheung is CFO at Uncharted Group, a Hong Kong group which invests in the Zimbabwean mining sector, hotels, Australian biotech ...

For the past ten days, Ivorian police have been trying to locate an Italian and two Lebanese men, who are suspected of being the instigators of the vast network dismantled after the record seizure of ...

On paper, it was unlikely Jazouli would be involved in the operation in which the United States agreed to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara region in return for Rabat renewing its ...

The previous NAF boss Sadique Abubakar had as early as 2020 spoken of the air force's efforts to carry out the maintenance of its Alpha Jets in Nigeria. Two of them were put back into service at the ...

The conflict with NNPC dates to 2011. In 2014, a special arbitration tribunal ordered the national oil firm to pay ExxonMobil and Shell $2.5bn for having overpaid itself in revenue from OML 133. This ...

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 ...