Government Ekpemupolo's firm Tantita Security, tasked in 2022 by state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp to secure the waters of the Niger Delta and combat crude oil theft, is increasingly ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who arrived in New York City on 21 September for his very first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly High-level Week, is due to address the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...

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 ...

Several white bodyguards, dressed in unmarked military uniforms and their fingers on the triggers of their guns, helped provide protection for DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi during his visit on ...

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 ...

Despite having suffered setbacks in the parliamentary and presidential elections of 1997 and 2002, he has little by little established himself as one of the central figures in Kenyan political life.

Although he is now over 70, Franco-Greek businessman Panayotis Taloumis, known by his friends as "Pana", remains an authoritarian figure who keeps a tight hold on the reins of his group. A genuine ...

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 ...