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 ...

A major reorganisation is under way at LAMHCO (Libyan Arab Maltese Holdings Co.), the joint venture between Libyan sovereign fund LAFICO (Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Co.) and the Maltese state.

Guillaume Soro has played numerous roles on his way up from student politics to rebel leader and then president of the National Assembly. In the space of less than a decade, he has been able to forge ...

Addax Petroleum's drawn-out drilling campaign stuttered to a halt in September. The company, owned by Chinese oil giant Sinopec, spent an estimated $180m on drilling 12 wells, only one of which has ...

Yassir Zenagui joined Mohammed VI's private office in 2011 after two years as Minister of Tourism. A former City trader, Zenagui, who is 46 and has French and Moroccan nationality, has since ...

Tema LNG Terminal Co (TLTC), the company which owns Ghana's Tema LNG import terminal, was over-optimistic in its forecast of the date for Shell's first LNG delivery to the terminal. The delivery, ...

Princess Lalla Noufissa el Yacoubi, who is a pioneer in the Western Sahara hotel sector, is steadily progressing round the Dakhla lagoon. The princess, a cousin of Mohammed VI, who already owns the ...

Just as international companies are preparing to invest colossal sums of money in gas reserves in the province of Cabo Delgado, a handful of retired generals, who come from this northern region and ...

Ever since 23 December, when a man bound for Dubai via Addis Ababa was arrested at Antananarivo's Ivato airport with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien ...

The Rio Tinto representative arrived in Conakry a few days ago to discuss with Winning Consortium potential collaborations on the Simandou iron project's infrastructures.

The Tunisian government's deepening financial crisis has not entirely put the brakes on the armed forces' spending spree. According to sources in Tunis, the French missile manufacturer MBDA and ...

As people in the Central African Republic prepare to vote in Sunday's referendum on constitutional changes, the country's armed groups appear not to be in a position to repeat the disruption they ...