Gabon’s civil aviation, ANAC, has issued an operation permit to Gabon Aero Solutions, a private airline using helicopters, to transport personnel of oil and gas companies operating in the central African country. Christophe Lacombe, a helicopter pilot, is the project director. Based in capital Libreville, the company is launched with private capital gathered from Gabonese […]
It’s official. The government of Kenya has closed a border with neighboring Somalia indefinitely with cross-border trade banned in the process. Rising tensions between Kenya and Somalia over political and economic interests have seen the two East African countries also spar pettily over border and immigration rules in recent months. The border closure is the […]
Former Algerian billionaire tycoon, Rafik Khalifa, has been extradited to his homeland after living in Britain for more than a decade. Once considered the “golden boy” of Algeria, the 47-year-old Khalifa rose from obscurity to build an empire including a bank, an airline and television stations, at one point employing an estimated 20,000 people in […]
