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 ...

Former health minister in Djibouti, Mohamed Djama Elabe formed the Mouvement pour la Paix and Reconciliation before taking over at the head of the Front Uni de l'Opposition Djiboutienne (FUOD) in ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

Now that its joint venture partnership with Toyota Tshusho Corp on the Achmach tin project in Morocco has been completed (talks are underway to finance construction of a mine) Kasbah Resources has ...

After 30 years at the State House, President Yoweri Museveni, or "M7" to use his campaign nickname, is aiming at the age of 71 to obtain a fifth mandate, which he hopes to win thanks to his hold on ...

Although he is now over 70, Franco-Greek businessman Panayotis Taloumis, known by his friends as "Pana", remains an authoritarian figure who keeps a tight hold on the reins of his group. A genuine ...

Hassanein Hiridjee and his brother inherited businesses started by their father. Hassanein, a member of Madagascar's Indo-Pakistani community, has French nationality and is very much the modern ...

Jean-Louis Billon is a case apart in Ivory Coast. He is heir to the leading private sector group, SIFCA, which was founded by his father, Pierre Billon, but is reputed to scorn networking in a country ...

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.

When he came to power on December 21 2010, President Alpha Conde promised a "new era". Two years on, it has become clear that management of the country's mineral resources is more than ever under his ...

Andry Rajoelina, who has been president of Madagascar's High Transitional Authority since March 2009, is Africa's youngest head of state. The controversial circumstances of his accession to high ...

He served briefly as adviser to prime minister Jacques Sylla from 2002 to 2004 but, since then, has avoided taking political sides too openly in public. He has not forgotten the problems encountered ...