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

Located 550 km south-west of Addis Ababa in the regional state of Oromia, the Yayu coal field was discovered in 1996 by the Ethiopian Institute for Geological Surveys (EIGS). Late last year, four ...

UraMin Inc., a junior chaired by the former chief executive of AngloGold Ashanti., Sam Jonah, has just contracted SRK Consulting (US) Inc to carry out a final feasibility study on its Ryst Kuil ...

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Once a target of France's Eramet, the Otjozondu manganese project in central-east Namibia has been picked up by Australian junior Shaw River Resources which hopes to put it into production next year.

Sudanese head of state Omar Hassan al Bechir rejigged his cabinet on February 10 and named Ali Osman Muhammad Taha, the National Islamic Front's number two official, as foreign minister. He takes over ...

The publisher of New People (the Nairobi-based magazine for English-speaking Roman Catholics from Sudan to South Africa), Reverend Renato Kizito Sesana, has been dismissed by cardinal Joseph Tomko, a ...

The Cameroonian government's negotiations with British investment fund Actis over the acquisition of electricity operator Energy of Cameroon (Eneo) have been stalled for months. In the meantime, ...

The British government has designated a new ambassador to replace ambassador Bob Dewar from July. It is Charles Mochan, aged 51 years, who already knows the region for having been posted three years ...

Prime minister Meles Zenawi's announcement to parliament on February 6 (ION N° 753) that agriculture minister Teketel Forsido had been sacked for "incompetence" and immediately replaced by Seifu ...

The new chairman of the Mauritian Syndicat des Sucres has been a well-known cane sugar planter in the Riche-en-Eau region since 1959. A former MP in Parliament (1976-1987) and former chairman of ...