In recent weeks, there has been an intensification of discussions between the foreign ministries and employers' associations ...

Several major mining companies including Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields Corp (AGC) are said to be interested in reviving gold mining in Botswana's Tati gold belt around Francistown. Drilling has begun ...

Construction materials specialist Abdenour Souakri, who has been a leading figure in the cement industry since he went into partnership with LafargeHolcim in 2012, is now taking an interest in another ...

Businesswoman and consultant Denise Cortês-Keyser has bought a 10% participating interest in the Mozambican arm of Nigerian oil and gas service expert International Energy Services (IES), which also ...

Out of the 36 companies that consulted the tender specifications to supply Ethiopia's 2019 petroleum products order, only three trading giants Trafigura, Vitol and PetroChina submitted a bid. The ...

In late June, leaders of the main mining companies established in Katanga were invited to become buyers of future electricity output generated by the Luena coal station, located 500 km north of ...

While it continues to work on the sale of part of its marginal onshore and shallow offshore fields (), ExxonMobil is keeping an eye out for buyers for some of its other assets in an ultra-select ...

The head of CNPC's Niger branch, CNPCNP, Cheng Cunzhi, has drawn a line.With the back payments the Nigerien public firm Sonidep owes the Zinder refinery operator Soraz, controlled by CNPC with 60%, at ...

Mauritian national Mahesh Kumar Ramloll, known as Ravi, is in high dudgeon against Malagasy authorities and recently wrote to Mauritian Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth to seek his support. Head of ...

Hedi M'Sadek, who is rarely to be seen but is a major supplier of equipment to the Tunisian security forces, is looking for new outlets.He has set up a company called International Security Consulting ...

Fishing industry heavyweight, Hassan Sentissi El Idrissi, whose Copelit group owns Africa’s biggest flour and fish oil plant in Laayoune, is looking to build up his activity in the Western Sahara.

The Association des Exploitants Miniers Artisanaux du Katanga (EMAK) and the Syndicat des Exploitants Miniers Artisanaux du Katanga (SEMAK) intend to put a stop to anarchic mining at the artisanal ...