SMTI (Societe Meditrraneenne de Transport International), which specializes in industrial logistics and transportation, is beefing up its business. Its boss, Tunisia’s Mongi Trimeche, has just founded ...

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 ...

An earlier version of this article stated that LMS Commodity Trading DMCC had been contracted to supply gasoil. In fact, this transaction concerned gasoline, as stated in the complaints filed by the ...

The special adviser to the late Seychelles foreign, planning and environment minister Ms. Danielle De St Jorre (who died in Paris this week, see ION N° 748), Alain Butler-Payette has just been ...

Libya's new ambassador to Paris, Mohamed Harari, is expected to shortly take up his functions. Named some time ago, he is awaiting the departure of his predecessor, Abdessalam El Mazoughi. A farewell ...

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, ...

In mid-November the Indian company KEC International, which has been making big dents on the African market (AI, 19/10/20), won the tender for the construction of a 77km-long electricity transmission ...

Atundu notes that this contract, which is closely associated with the building of the Lualaba River dam, was taken "by the ministry alone without any consultation of the board or the president of the ...

Achi has approached several institutions, including the Caisse nationale de prévoyance de sociale and Caisse de dépôts et de consignation (CDC) pension funds. The civil servants pension fund, Caisse ...

Gnamankala, who is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia in the United States, has spent most of his career at the DGDI. He joined the department in 2000 and served as chief of ...

Though a large part of the money needed to make these acquisitions came from loans, much of it is from foreign investors, thanks to the 26 June 2018 Law on the Repatriation of Financial Resources. It ...

The second matter being kept off the agenda is even more fraught. The lengthy DSSI document uses wordy diplomatic turns of phase and has some deliberately ambiguous passages that could leave room for ...