President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, is putting into place the conditions that would enable him to run for another presidential mandate in the 2006 elections. A white paper is currently before parliament to amend the [.
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Financial experts from the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) are to go to Madagascar in mid-January 2005, to carry out [...]
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The privatisation of the state firms and the deregulation of the financial sector are still the conditions for unlocking international aid.
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Uganda has refused to authorise Russian Illyushin aeroplanes to fly through its airspace.
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The Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever which set up in Ethiopia four years ago has decided to close its offices there. According [...]
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The company Ma Foi Management Consultants based in Chennai (India) is planning to create a subsidiary in Mauritius in the [...]
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The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has just built its first service station in Mauritius through its subsidiary Indian Oil Mauritius [...]
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Ulyanovsk Avtmobilny Zavod (UAZ), the Russian manufacturer of four-wheel drive vehicles widely used by the military, has embarked on an [...]
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Not only do French firms set up in Madagascar, the movement does go the other way too, although this a [...]
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The consortium that has just been awarded the second landline telephone licence is led by Etisalat along with five other members.
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An association of Somalian consultants has seen the light of day, with help from funding by the European Union and an action by the NGO Novib.
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While presenting the 2005 budget to the National Assembly, President James Michel announced a programme of privatisations for next year.
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Amine Valy, the director general of the joint committee of Pierrefonds, the organisation which runs Saint-Pierre airport in the South [...]
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Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement of Democratic Change (MDC, opposition), spoke before the development commission of the European Parliament [...]
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According to a source close to President James Michel, the American government is considering using the Seychelles port facilities for [...]
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South Korea's new ambassador to Madagascar will present his credentials to President Marc Ravalomanana in February 2005. Kim Eun-Soo will [...]
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Yvonne Muthien, the director of corporate affairs of the telecommunications company MTN is not only a friend of Irene Charnley, [...]
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The chairman of the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) has just been elected to the head of the Africa Stock Exchanges [...]
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The daily newspaper L'Express de Madagascar has a new publication manager in the person of Solofo Rasoarahona. A member of [...]
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Nobel peace prize-winner Wangari Maathai, is considering leaving politics to devote herself entirely to international activity related to the defence [...]
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The former President want to have the ban on his participating in politics lifted, so that he can run for election.
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The Union Government Minister of Defence has warned the armed forces against the National Assembly's adopting the organic law.
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The trial of two top civil servants accused of embezzlement took place in great hast in Moroni.
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In spite of declarations of unity in the leadership of the SPLA, the ranks of grass roots commanders are beginning to get impatient.
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The International Development Association (IDA, subsidiary of the World Bank) [...]
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A small mission of heads of companies in Mayotte, led [...]
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President Mwai Kibaki has renewed general Joseph Kibwana in the [...]
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The new Eritrean ambassador to Italy has just presented his [...]
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The Anglo American Corporation will have, as from January 2005, [...]
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The director in chief of Statistics South Africa, Pali Lehohla, [...]
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Mauritius Chemical and Fertilizer Industry Ltd (MCFI) is to restructure [...]
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The Canadian company SaskTel International has just won its eleventh [...]
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The small British mining company African Eagle Resources has just [...]
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The Canadian company Wataire Industries Inc. which recently settled in [...]
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The Madagascan ambassador to Paris, Jean-Pierre Razafy Andriamihaingo will try [...]
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The resident representative of the European Union (EU) in Antananarivo [...]
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