Libya's new ambassador to Paris, Mohamed Harari, is expected to shortly take up his functions. Named some time ago, he is awaiting the departure of his predecessor, Abdessalam El Mazoughi. A farewell ...

In mid-November the Indian company KEC International, which has been making big dents on the African market (AI, 19/10/20), won the tender for the construction of a 77km-long electricity transmission ...

Achi has approached several institutions, including the Caisse nationale de prévoyance de sociale and Caisse de dépôts et de consignation (CDC) pension funds. The civil servants pension fund, Caisse ...

Gnamankala, who is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia in the United States, has spent most of his career at the DGDI. He joined the department in 2000 and served as chief of ...

The second matter being kept off the agenda is even more fraught. The lengthy DSSI document uses wordy diplomatic turns of phase and has some deliberately ambiguous passages that could leave room for ...

The construction of the port of Enfidha also appears to have slid down the list of priorities now that Washington has offered to donate $324m via its Millennium Challenge Corp (MCC) foreign aid agency ...

Though a large part of the money needed to make these acquisitions came from loans, much of it is from foreign investors, thanks to the 26 June 2018 Law on the Repatriation of Financial Resources. It ...

On Sadiba's orders, army and police officers led respectively by Colonel Mamadi Condé, commander of the military region of Kankan, and Abdel Kader Touré, the director of security in the same region, ...

For the Congolese side, putting this contract into effect should allow the CIZ to become operational, prior to entering into fresh negotiations on the other offshore blocks coveted by Kinshasa (AI, 29 ...

"Approved by Parliament. Waiting to be signed into law." Since 25 April, these nine words have described the status of the Upstream Petroleum Resources Development (UPRD) Bill on a website that tracks ...

The two companies accuse the French retailer of having reduced its Casino-branded food product range by around 30% since the summer and of having stopped selling non-food products overnight. They ...

The cancellation last week of the decree appointing Armand Ralaidovy to be coordinator of the World Bank health project known as Cresan was not enough to pacify the Bretton Woods institutions. Two ...