The former minister for industrial development Yekoyada Francis Omoto Masakhalia has inherited the finance portfolio, taking over from outgoing Simeon Nyachae, who was moved to another ministerial ...

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.

Angola's Force Petroleum is no longer a shareholder in the onshore block Cabinda South, located in Angola's oil-rich Cabinda province, the exclave wedged between the Republic of Congo and the DRC. The ...

The pan-African banking group Vista Bank, founded by Simon Tiemtoré, an American originally from Burkina Faso, has just seen the departure of two of its key figures, including Stéphane Ouédraogo, vice ...

Killed, along with his two bodyguards, last week in a hotel in Beni (Democratic Republic of Congo) where he had just arrived, major Reuben Ikondere, the second-in-command of the UPDF force in DRC, may ...

Retired major general Athmane Tartag, also known as Bachir, the former head of the DRS intelligence and security agency, has been placed under house arrest in the west Algerian city of Oran, where he ...

The defence team of former rebel leader Dominic Ongwen is contesting the sum, arguing that the victim count has been overestimated. But the victims' lawyers have rejected these arguments and support ...

The road leading to the site of the future Sahofika dam (205MW), the largest electricity production project in Madagascar, around 100km south of Antananarivo, is about to have a complete makeover.

The European Union is set to send humanitarian aid to Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria which was struck by devastating floods after a dam broke on 11 September following unusually heavy rains.

As president of the Council of the European Union from July to December, Hungary's leader Viktor Orbán wants to put the Sahel on the Brussels agenda. To this end, his foreign minister Péter Szijjártó ...

Tankers are still making their way to the ports of eastern Libya, despite the oil blockages in the country. The Turkish vessel Haci Kemal, on its way from the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, ...

France and the Ivory Coast have come to a reciprocal agreement exempting Ivorian diplomatic passport holders from needing a visa. This decision puts an end to several months of intense negotiations ...