Non-executive administrator of South Africa's Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) since 2019, the auditor Sechaba Thole was promoted in late May to acting financial director of the brand-new state-owned oil ...

Kikli also appointed Karim Layas, the assistant to Ousama Abdulmajid Mohamed, known as Ousama Talish, the former head of the government security agency Facilities Security Authority, as GNMTC chairman ...

Sesakho Magadla, the acting CEO of state-owned PetroSA and Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF), is due to receive a pay raise. In a memo to the board of directors of both companies dated 12 June, Tumelo Mokwena ...

The TFTA is not the only forum where Ruto is seeking to make his mark. Already in the driving seat of the rotating presidency of the EAC, the Kenyan head of state has become vice-president of COMESA ...

The surprise nomination of Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio at the helm of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS (AI, 23/06/25), was met with little enthusiasm within the ...

After four days of treatment at the Delta Hospital in Brussels, the Central African Republic's President Faustin-Archange Touadéra saw his health stabilise and was able to leave the medical ...

It was a deal initially seen as a great success. The German gas and oil company Wintershall Dea was sold last year for more than $11bn to the British company Harbour Energy. However, the German firm's ...

After breaking diplomatic ties with Belgium, Rwanda now seems willing to work on resuming relations with its former colonial power. Belgian Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prévot ...

Uganda's mainstream media outlets are having to adjust to a new reality. Their requests for accreditation to cover President Yoweri Museveni's activities are increasingly rarely granted. While it has ...

Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéra was urgently flown to Belgium on 21 June to be hospitalised. The head of state left Bangui at around 6am aboard a private medical jet that was ...

American bank JP Morgan has begun discreet discussions with the Ivorian government to offer financial products to hedge risks ...

Already a 9% stakeholder in railway company Cameroon Railways (Camrail), the Australian mining group Canyon Resources has been seeking to increase its participation to 42% for almost two months via ...