Month : May 2023

Talks between Rio Tinto and QIT Minerals Madagascar (QMM), the subsidiary that is 80%-owned by the Anglo-Australian mining giant and...

Corsican businessman Michel Tomi, a prominent figure of the gambling industry in French-speaking Africa, is planning to open a casino...

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama may have featured heavily in the celebrity magazines last month by attending a Bruce Springsteen concert in Barcelona,...

The pit, less than four metres deep and ever-growing in diameter, put all the gemstone buyers working for the major...

On 8 May, the opposition figure Guillaume Soro, who has been living in exile in Europe since 2020, addressed his...

Algeria’s peace strategy in Mali, centred around diplomacy, the intelligence services and the Algiers Peace Agreement, seems to have stalled....

For the past few weeks, foreign security companies in Libya have been living on a razor’s edge. Last month, several industry heavyweights saw their contracts...

Justin Vaïsse, MD of the Paris Peace Forum, is currently in discussions with phosphate miner behemoth OCP (95% owned by...

Kenya – Mary Mutula, from reality TV to activismMary Mutula has worn many hats since she appeared on Kenya Television...

Despite the poor state of diplomatic relations between Bamako and Niamey, Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum has been trying in recent...