The new government of Madagascar is stuffed full of Tiko Boys, men close to President Marc Ravalomanana some of who have worked for the Tiko group of companies owned by the Head of State. Moreover, it reflects the increasing political [.
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The directors (David Montgomery, Lesley Davey, Paul West and Colin Flitch) along with a majority of the shareholders of The [...]
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The coal division of the mining giant Anglo American has just created the south African company Anglo Inyosi Coal worth [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank group) is to participate in the creation of the first [...]
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Last week the Royal Court of Justice in London gave its verdict on the dispute between the French businessman Fabien [...]
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In spite of American pressure which made the German giant Siemens decide to stop its operations in Sudan at the [...]
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On 26 January Wavel Ramkalawan, the leader of the Seychelles National Party (SNP, opposition), confirmed to the Electoral Commissioner Hendricks [...]
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Some former Kenyan MPs are trying to be nominated by Pattni's political party in the next parliamentary elections so as to benefit from his generosity.
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After training Ethiopian special troops, American servicemen provided support for their operation against Islamist forces in Somalia.
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The Internet web site set up by partisans of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) relates back to associations and companies based in the United Kingdom.
Shortly before leaving his functions last week, the former Prime Minister of Madagascar was keen to find jobs for several of his men of confidence.
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The dispute between the Union and the islands over running the Comoros ports has led the executives of Al Marwan in Sharjah to put back the firm’s official opening ceremony in Moroni.
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The sons of two former members of the Mozambican government have for some time become inseparable business partners. Pascoal Mahikete [...]
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Several international companies are competing for a tamper-proof passport contract worth 30 million euros.
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Kamal Taposeea was just 7 months at the head of the Mauritius subsidiary of the South African Standard Bank.
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One of the sons of the late President Samora Machel has transformed his firm for tracing stolen cars into an air transport company.
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The leading company in the mobile telephone market in Khartoum, Mobitel, a subsidiary of the Kuwaiti group MTC, is concerned by its rivals’ ambitions.
Like White Nile and Ascom, both of which have already signed oil exploration contracts with the authorities in South Sudan, other companies are want to do likewise.
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Imprisoned for four years for corruption and later cleared of these allegations, the owners of the Star Business Group have carved out a new niche in Addis Ababa.
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Active for decades as an oil trader, this longstanding Franco-Spanish businessman - born in Morocco of an Argentinean father and [...]
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The chief prosecutor in the trials for treason and genocide that the Ethiopian authorities have brought against a dozen leaders [...]
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A retired general in the Marine Corps has been appointed deputy director of the United States Africa Center for Strategics [...]
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A Canadian originally from the Ogaden region in Ethiopia stands a strong risk of coming into the hands of the [...]
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The new governor of the Banque Centrale de Madagascar (BCM) is a celebrity well known as a political moderate. To [...]
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The former journalist Fassil Assefa has joined the horde of [...]
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Two relatives of former Malagasy Prime Ministers have just banded [...]
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An error slipped in into the Portugal-Africa supplement to The [...]
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The former secretary general of the Prefecture of Reunion Island [...]
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The Ugandan authorities are preparing for a possible resumption of [...]
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The issue of the participation by President Robert Mugabe in [...]
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A new Islamist military chief prepared to do battle with [...]
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Since mid January the Chambre Commerciale Internationale Franco Malgache Océan [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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The Maputo businessman Mamud Charania is to have a new [...]
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The Frenchman Patrick Cejudo, who works in Antananarivo for the [...]
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The Mozambican former Minister of Mines and Energy, Castigo Jose [...]
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A group of representatives of this American private security firm [...]
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The Kenyan company owned by Samit Shah last week won [...]
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The Canadian company chaired by George Faught has just won [...]
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The Canadian company for working diamond mines which failed in [...]
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