Power outages are increasing in Egypt since the beginning of Ramadan. They reached enough frequency to drive gripe the Egyptians in anger and cause a clash between the Ministers of Electricity and Petroleum.

If the official investiture of the candidate Blaise Compaoré is expected with great pomp on August 21, 2010 in Ouagadougou with the support of fifty political parties and voluntary organisations;

“The strike will continue but it will be different this week because the strikers will stay home”, Manie de Clercq, the spokesman for the Civil Servants Association of South Africa (PSA) said.

The traditional cleavages that were ideological in the past, have become regional, linguistic and even religious today, and are restricting the real development of Africa. The frequency of these divisions has weakened the joint action presumed to...

Like other African political figures that visited  Conakry in recent days (Jean Ping, Amadou Toumani Touré, Abdoulaye Wade and Blaise Compaoré), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia and Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Siera Leone have not...

The South African Department of Housing announced that more than a thousand employees of the department and contractors have been indicted in a massive operation against corruption.

By declaring that Goodluck Jonathan, Christian from South and acting President, had the right to stand for presidency in 2011, the PDP has blown a real lock. It is a rotating presidency for eight years, between the...

Nigeria has made contact with Libya last week by sending the foreign minister, Odein Ajumogobia, as a special envoy of President Goodluck Jonathan. The Nigerian foreign minister was received in audience in Tripoli by the Libyan Prime...

The Italian oil group Eni has acquired 55% of the Ndunda oil exploration block in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the informal sector represents over 80% of the economy. Therefore, it constitutes an obstacle to faster development and a factor reducing the tax base, thereby minimizing infrastructure spending that the...