While a certain amount of effort has been put into transparency, few of the ministers and MPs in the governing party publicly admit to the level of their belongings. And yet, everybody in the country knows that considerable personal financial [.
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The Grand Master of the Grande Loge Nationale Française (GLNF), Jean Charles Foellner, is to go for the second time [...]
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A South African technical delegation comprising a score of servicemen and policemen completed a one week fact-finding mission to the [...]
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A French Parliamentary Mission chaired by the Socialist MP René Dosière presented its preliminary report and provisional conclusions on 2 [...]
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Annette Scheckler, the former head of Voice of America’s (VOA) Horn of Africa service, has become a new special political [...]
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Several South African former ambassadors have left the diplomatic service to go into business or work as independent consultants.
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Taking advantage of the opposition being in tatters, the central leaders of ZANU-PF want to purge their ranks of all internal dissidence.
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In its efforts to calm the opposition and soften the Ethiopian regime, American diplomacy is now calling on university professors to act as mediators.
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Xavier-Luc Duval, the Minister of Tourism and leader of the PMXD party, has placed a number of his political allies in key posts in State companies depending on his ministry.
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Small South African airlines are applying for an increasing number of authorisations for charter flights to African countries. After Charlan [...]
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The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation is planning to file a complaint against Radio Citizen owned by the magnate Samuel Kamau Macharia. But before doing so, it is waiting for the green light from the minister of communication and information.
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The next round of offshore oil exploration licences will be awarded after an international call for tenders. Awards will no longer be made by mutual agreement.
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After selling off some of its shares, the company operating the bulk sugar terminal in Maputo has radically increased the number of its shareholders.
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The Englishman who introduced Jubilee Platinum into Madagascar in 2003 has just founded his own small exploration company in Antananarivo.
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One of Grace Mugabe cousins has just got his hands on seven companies owned by the disgraced businessman Mutumwa Mawere.
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There have recently been some sackings in various departments of the tax administration.
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An assurance company from Mauritius coupled with the Seychelles Pension Fund has acquired 30% of the Seychelles State assurance company.
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Two companies from Zimbabwe (Enhoek Estates and Buzi Tea Company) and one from Mozambique (Guarani Lda) are to form a [...]
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The giant Coca Cola has plans to strengthen its presence in Kenya and not only by investing $135 million over [...]
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Like its rivals, the firm East African Portland Cement (EAPC) has to honour its increasingly costly electricity bills with the [...]
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The press group Ultima Média, founded by the industrialist Charles Andriantsitohaina and his son Naina, which already owns a daily [...]
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The weekly magazine Embondeiro, owned by a group of journalists (ION 1099), which has got into difficulty one year after [...]
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On 27 January, Joël Randriamandranto, aged 46, was elected to take over from Henri Roger as chairman of the board [...]
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Marcel Descroizilles, the former managing director of Esso Mauritius has become a consultant with Total Outre Mer since the beginning [...]
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At 60, the current Secretary for Home Affairs, Suresh Chandre Seeballuck has just been promoted to the highest echelon of [...]
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Ajay Pandey, one of the executives of the Tata group, has just been made managing director of the second fixed [...]
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A first five year loan of $10 million having been [...]
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Proparco, a subsidiary of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), [...]
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President Marc Ravalomanana is not the only person in Madagascar [...]
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The lawsuit filed by the Banque de l’industrie et du [...]
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is planning to go [...]
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The firm Sports & Technics Overseas Ltd, with a capital [...]
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The firm Kajjansi Roses Ltd, owned by the Asian Ugandan [...]
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Ahmed Panjwani’s Rwenzory Beverage Company (RBC), which markets mineral water [...]
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The Swedish Ambassador Anders Oljelund has been designated by the [...]
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The former minister Siddick Chady, an unsuccessful Labour Party (LP, [...]
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The former Minister of Education, beaten in the May 2005 [...]
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The Djibouti Head of State has designated a committee of [...]
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