Re-elected comfortably to the presidency and with a big majority behind him in Parliament, President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) came out of the first multi-party poll very well. The strategists of the NRM now want to [.
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President Azali Assoumani of the Union of the Comoros is a veritable globe-trotter. He had barely got back to Moroni [...]
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The representatives of five German companies are to join President Horst Koehler during his first visit to Madagascar on 6 [...]
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Speaking at a seminar on the Horn of Africa held at the Senate in Paris on 2 March, several French [...]
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The Kenyan police force is trying to be everywhere at the same time, from investigating corruption to arresting journalists. At [...]
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Diplomats and representatives of international donors are asking whether the National Anti-Corruption Campaign Steering Committee is at all effective.
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The current Ambassador of Ethiopia to Paris is to return soon to Addis Ababa. She will be replaced in France by another woman, who is currently on post in the Ivory Coast.
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The Ambassador of Eritrea to Paris has been recalled to Asmara. She has been replaced by her counsellor who has been made a chargé d'affaires.
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The Minister of the Economy, Finances and Budget has had to go to Washington to discuss a bone of contention with the IMF.
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The Ethiopian Ambassador to Germany has left the diplomatic service and returned to Addis Ababa to work for an institute studying security.
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President Robert Mugabe has ordered the Zimbabwe Investment Centre (ZIC) not to attribute the licences for prospecting for uranium that [...]
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A delegation from the Mauritian Hindu Entrepreneurs Association is to go on a prospecting mission to Antananarivo next week.
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The executives of Secren have been the target of a campaign of insidious criticism fed by their predecessors in these posts.
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The SAPS is acquiring four more Ecureuil helicopters ahead of the World Cup football tournament in 2010. Further contracts could follow.
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The Tanzanian government is threatening to take Songas to court for not complying with its contractual obligations.
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The last survivor of local micro-financing institutions wants to transform into an authentic bank before the end of this year.
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The firm Oceanic Développement has just taken charge of managing the fishing port whose refurbishment is taking much longer than expected.
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The Chinese firm Liaohe Petroleum Exploration Bureau (LPEB) has just signed an agreement with Madagasdcar Petroleum International (MPI) owned by [...]
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This week the President of the Seychelles, James Michel, stated that his government had approved the investment plan by Lehman [...]
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The Brazilian mining company Itabira Rio Doce Company Ltd (IRDC), a subsidiary of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), has [...]
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Around thirty small companies from the Burgundy region of France grouped together in a cooperative called Apifat have raised hopes [...]
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A former Minister of Privatisation and of the Private Sector under the former President Didier Ratsiraka (1997-2002), who subsequently was [...]
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Finally, President Jakaya Kikwete did not waste any time before sacking Omar Mahita from his function of Inspector General of [...]
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Javed Mawji, the chairman of the First Source Data Inc, has been hired to head the new branch in Dar [...]
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A group formed by the relatives and friends of the [...]
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Medef International’s trade prospecting mission to the Sudan on 24 [...]
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The programme for the promotion of investment and technology transfer [...]
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The former Malagasy Ambassador to Geneva, Jaona Ravaloson, who is [...]
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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has just got back [...]
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The Malaysian firm Berjaya Land (BLand) has decided to purchase [...]
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The British businessman Johnny Sei-Hoe Hon whose Global Bank Ltd [...]
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The British firm Bailey (C.H.) Plc, chaired by Charles Hery [...]
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South African Civil Aviation Authority has a CEO again, after [...]
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Claudia Wiedey-Nippold, the representative of the European Union in Mauritius, [...]
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Last week the South African cabinet approved the appointment of [...]
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The deputy chairman of the Ugandan Olympic Committee, Peter Okot [...]
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