Deployment of Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF, Ugandan army) units in Democratic Republic of Congo has exacerbated many failings (involvement of private business, mismanagement, etc) and sparked marks of indiscipline and bad temper in its ranks.
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The new Mauritian ambassador to Egypt is career diplomat Mohunlall Goburdhun. He will replace outgoing Haroon Abdool who had been [...]
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Created in December 1996 when Norbert Ratsirahonana (today in opposition) was prime minister and acting president, the Commission Nationale des [...]
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A shock-tactics lobbyist will direct the South African Chamber of Business (SACOB) from March first 1999. It is Kevin Wakeford, [...]
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The Seychelles' electoral commissioner Gerard Ah Sung, whose five-year term came to an end in December, has been replaced by [...]
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The 6 billion Malagasy francs fine (about FF.6 million) Madagascar's Customs services has inflicted on Yakataly Nazaraly, a businessman of [...]
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Khartoum's former back-up man Kerubino Kwanyin Bol, who rejoined the Sudanese armed rebellion in January 1998 then installed himself in [...]
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A precarious truce has settled on Anjouan Island after bloody confrontations at the beginning of December between partisans and rivals [...]
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The faction of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, ex-Afar rebellion rallied to the government) [...]
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The recent arrest of Jorge Fidalgo in Maputo on drug trafficking charges has swung the spotlight onto the pervasive commercial [...]
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The vice chairman of Oromia Regional State (and leader of [...]
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The first two measures of new Comoros Islands prime minister [...]
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State utility Telcom Malagasy (Telma), a joint venture of the Malagasy state and the French parastatal France Cable & Radio [...]
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New Mauritius Hotels Ltd and Beachcomber, two subsidiaries of the Rogers group specializing in hotel management, are to merge this [...]
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A small British company, Digital Exchange Products (DXP), which was contacted by Somaliland Telecommunications Corporation last February to supply reconditioned [...]
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A team from International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Services (ITC in its Dutch initials) in The Netherlands headed [...]
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On the initiative of Geneva-based NGO Synergies Africa, a network of businessmen and organisms interested in conflict prevention is being [...]
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The Canadian mining company Tiomin Resources which has exploitation permits for mineralized sands on the Kenyan coastline has just found [...]
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Workers at the recently privatized Kilombero Sugar Company in Morogoro Region are up in arms against the new company management [...]
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Two directors of US firm Cell Tech, Daryl James Kollman and Christopher Corry, were in Ethiopia last month hoping to [...]
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The Business Link Sussex official will lead a BLS mission [...]
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The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) representative to the conference [...]
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General (retired) Wilson A. C. Boinett, who heads Kenya's intelligence [...]
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The Forum Francophone des Affaires (FFA) whose international bureau is [...]
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The management committee of Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (an [...]
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Libyan head of state colonel Muammar Al Kadhafi jointly invited some rival Somali leaders to Tripoli in the middle of [...]
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The border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia has bulged into a form of low-intensity, long-drawn out warfare which puts the [...]
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The recent Asian tour (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea) of Tanzanian head of state Benjamin Mkapa in mid-December was firmly under [...]
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Banco Mello de Investimentos of Portugal, Banco Comercial de Moçambique [...]
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The recent launch by Telecom (Seychelles) Ltd (TSL) of Seychelles' [...]
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The London legal firm of Denton Hall has set up [...]
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