Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is due to take a private trip to France around 15 January. In addition to a stay in a villa in Mougins, in the south of France, he is due to spend several days in ...

The chairman of Southern Ethiopia Peoples' Democratic Coalition (SEPDC) and National Democratic Coalition (NDC) was elected chairman of the conference for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia, held in ...

French companies working in the defence sector approached Mohammed Badaru Abubakar when he came to Paris in November as part ...

A handful of French military veterans, ex-employees of the private security company EPEE, provided training to around 20 ...

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 ...

After more than 10 years of exploring the uranium potential of Namibia's subsoil, the Russian state nuclear group Rosatom has applied for a permit to mine uranium in the east of the country, far away ...

Kenya's former secretary to the government and head of the Kenyan civil service (until unexpectedly replaced by Dr. Richard Leakey in July) took up his new functions this week as Kenyan permanent ...

The leaders of the ruling Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) who are faithful to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi are seeking to use the same legal weapon against the party's current dissidents that ...

The former diplomat and education ministry official Benjamin Kipkulei has been appointed by president Daniel arap Moi to be permanent secretary to the finance ministry. He takes over from Karuga ...

The United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara, the Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura, is set to hold a series of consultations in New York in the second fortnight of March.

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