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 ...

The European Investment Bank is to co-finance the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in Kafr el-Sheik, in the north of the country. The project is expected to cost €23m.

The cards have been reshuffled in the race to become UfM's secretary general after the front-runner, Jordanian national ...

Several embassies that covered Eritrea from the Sudanese capital have had to take refuge in Ethiopia since the start of the civil war more than a year ago. But the historical rivalry and growing ...

When the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) put South Africa on its "grey list" in February 2023 (AI, 18/10/22), Pretoria said it would extract itself from this category of countries that are placed ...

On 17 September, the Chadian government suffered a major setback before the Paris Court of Appeal in its dispute with the telecoms company N-Soft (AI, 16/08/22) when judges overturned a ruling handed ...

Daniel Chapo, the frontrunner in next month's presidential election in Mozambique, paid an unpublicised visit to Kigali in June where he met Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who has become the key ...

The president's crusade against organisations that receive foreign funding led to the arrest of the secretary general of the Tunisian Financial Analysis Committee and the seizure of foreign data from ...

US giant General Electric and Japanese firm Mitsubishi are neck and neck in a race to win the contract to build a gas plant in Al Wahda for the Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable ...

Little information has filtered out from the British embassy in Algiers about the country's new ambassador. Graham Steward Hand, whose appointment hasn't yet been officially announced by the Foreign ...

JOANNOU & PARASKEVAIDES J&P OVERSEAS (Greece) has won a contract to build a 120 km-long gas pipeline between Melitah and Tripoli.

The new ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Tanzania, Wang Yongqiu, will be breaking fresh ground with his post in Africa. The 55-year old career diplomat has served on the North American ...