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 ...

The South African businessman Tony Teixeira has just pulled off a major coup. Otterbea International, which is 80.1% owned by Teixeira's company Diamond-Works, has just won an exclusive contract to ...

The businessman from Somaliland Djama Omar Saïd, who was arrested in Djibouti for "cigarette smuggling" on 4 November and then released a few days later on the 10th of November (LOI nº1367), is due to ...

The pipeline should not start to function for several more weeks, however. According to our sources, Spanish gas distributor Enagas carried out successful tests recently with the gas flow in the ...

The process of selling these assets, which began several months ago, has been hindered by the protests of ExxonMobil staff, who vehemently opposed an on-site visit by Savannah until the subject of ...

Development works for the Mbalam-Nabeba cross-border iron ore mining project may soon commence. An official ceremony to mark the handover of equipment required to launch operations is due to be held ...

Though Africa is a priority for UNESCO, the continent having its own dedicated assistant director, it is significantly under-represented in the upper echelons of the institution run by Audrey Azoulay.

Aziza Kulsum, alias Madame Gulamali, owner of the cigarette-manufacturing company Uzabuco at Bukavu, is the only private partner in a company that buys and sells columbo-tantalite (coltan) which the ...

After more than 10 years of exploring the uranium potential of Namibia's subsoil, the Russian state nuclear group Rosatom has applied for a permit to mine uranium in the east of the country, far away ...

The next meeting between Darfur fighters in Libya and the Sudanese army is set to take place in Doha in early March. Following two previous meetings between fighters from the so-called "Democratic ...

Paris has been working for several weeks on sending additional military equipment to Kyiv, but negotiations are still stumbling over how to pay for the operation. The financing should come from a new ...

Renamed Hadin Kai, the military operation fighting terrorism in northern Nigeria welcomed its new intelligence director this week. Brigadier General Adebayo Adekola took up the post in Maiduguri, the ...