West Africa


LAGOS, Nigeria - The managing director for French oil major Total SA's Nigerian operation says a proposed federal law to overhaul the nation's oil industry will hurt foreign investment.
New cables tie West Africa closer to Internet
LAGOS, Nigeria - For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.

LAGOS, Nigeria - Bharti Airtel's CEO says the Indian company will invest $600 million in Nigeria's mobile phone market.

BEIJING - State-owned China Unicom Ltd.

JOHANNESBURG - The presidential election in Equatorial Guinea will undoubtedly extend the 30-year rule of Teodoro Obiang Nguema, a man accused of draining his nation's oil wealth to fabulously enrich family and cronies while his people suffer in slums.
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