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 ...

Andry Rajoelina, who has been president of Madagascar's High Transitional Authority since March 2009, is Africa's youngest head of state. The controversial circumstances of his accession to high ...

Jimnah Mbaru has been head of the Dyer & Blair investment bank, which today is highly prosperous, since 1983. He also has a substantial portfolio of shares in other flourishing companies. Born in 1947 ...

The Ivorian president will head to France on 15 January for personal reasons on a visit that coincides with his Angolan ...

A whole raft of Madagascar's business elite, some of them well over sixty, are in the process of organising their succession. These founding owners of major companies, most of whom are French ...

The fact that US major ExxonMobil is overseeing the 18 million tonne per annum Rovuma LNG project located near to Mozambique LNG in the Afungi zone in northern Mozambique greatly boosts TotalEnergies' ...

Moulay Idriss Filali, whose mother is King Mohammed VI's elder sister, is gradually expanding his economic empire. With help ...

In the meantime, Rajaonarimampianina had been bold and far-seeing enough to stand in the presidential election under the colours of his own political movement, the Hery Vaovao hoan'i Madagasikara ...

Madagascar's major mobile money companies are furious. The island's tax department, Direction Générale des Impôts, announced a bill for a new tax on mobile transactions on 14 November, and it was ...

After waiting since last July, the Algerian government has finally named Amine Kherbi rather than Mohamed Salah Dembri as Algeria's ambassador to Washington. The Bush administration reportedly ...

When he came to power on December 21 2010, President Alpha Conde promised a "new era". Two years on, it has become clear that management of the country's mineral resources is more than ever under his ...