When the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) put South Africa on its "grey list" in February 2023 (AI, 18/10/22), Pretoria said it would extract itself from this category of countries that are placed ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is currently in New York City to attend the United Nations General Assembly, which opens on 24 September. He hopes to meet several of his African ...

Daniel Chapo, the frontrunner in next month's presidential election in Mozambique, paid an unpublicised visit to Kigali in June where he met Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who has become the key ...

On 17 September, the Chadian government suffered a major setback before the Paris Court of Appeal in its dispute with the telecoms company N-Soft (AI, 16/08/22) when judges overturned a ruling handed ...

Several embassies that covered Eritrea from the Sudanese capital have had to take refuge in Ethiopia since the start of the civil war more than a year ago. But the historical rivalry and growing ...

The president's crusade against organisations that receive foreign funding led to the arrest of the secretary general of the Tunisian Financial Analysis Committee and the seizure of foreign data from ...

US giant General Electric and Japanese firm Mitsubishi are neck and neck in a race to win the contract to build a gas plant in Al Wahda for the Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable ...

Corporate bank Algest Consulting chairman Ibrahim Magassa, of dual French and Ivorian citizenship, was co-opted several months ago by Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo to provide guidance on Ghana's ...

The request should land on the desk of African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye before the end of the week: Somalia, which is seeking to replace the ...

Independent deputy for Chlef from 2002 to 2007, M’hamed Meddah Araibi has switched successfully to project management assistance for public sector bodies. His company, Genie Mauresque, has just ...

Last month's announcement that the Central Bank of Seychelles governor Aboo Aumeeruddy would be on medical leave until further notice for treatment in France was an advance sign of his forthcoming ...

A former member of the now defunct Federal Democratic Movement and today leader of a group of anti-government rebels based inside Uganda (see "Museveni plays it carefully", page 2 in this issue), Fred ...