N'Djamena has made a second order for twenty Ara 2 mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles from the Nigerian manufacturer Proforce Defence. They are due for delivery later this year. The ...

Casablanca's gigantic high-tech video surveillance project, officially dedicated to traffic control but above all aimed at serving the national police force, the DGSN (Direction Générale de la Sûreté ...

Stability within the presidential security apparatus is thus ensured. With Boka, the GR is now helmed by an associate of the secretary general of the National Security Council (CNS, the Congolese ...

More importantly, these big name accounting firms are putting forth a weighty argument. They believe suspending their activities just before Algeria is set to announce changes to its promotion and ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

MAROCINVEST FINANCE GROUP has just started up business as a new investment consultant. It has a registered venture/development capital of $20 million. Its shareholders include the World Bank affiliate ...

After serving a first term as governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Leonard Tsumba has been re-appointed to the post by head of state Robert Mugabe, for a five-year term. Now 63, Tsumba studied ...

France's junior minister for Development, the French-speaking diaspora and international partnerships, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, will travel to Kinshasa mid-December. Her exact dates have not yet been ...

King Mohammed VI's younger sister has ceded her shares in the Sicopa cannery to the businessman close to the royal family. Fahmane remains in partnership with the princess in the Atlas Agrumes ...

High-level forest summits are coming up thick and fast. Gabon's One Forest Summit is set to get under way on 1 March, while, in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso is ...

The next meeting between Darfur fighters in Libya and the Sudanese army is set to take place in Doha in early March. Following two previous meetings between fighters from the so-called "Democratic ...