Spotlight | Kenya
Rising stars in business
A new generation of businessmen is making its appearance on the scene in Kenya.
A new generation of businessmen is making its appearance on the scene in Kenya.
The Ugandan government has chosen someone from the innermost circle of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) as the new Commissioner [...]
The Constitutional Court elected its President on 28 October, in the person of Abdallah Ahmed Sourette, who had been appointed [...]
The black lawyer Dali Mpofu finally survived his "relations" with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
The Pan African Mining Corporation has just hired Edward A. Schiller as geology consultant for its diamond and precious stone [...]
Three years after the arrest in Asmara of Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean journalist with Swedish nationality whose wife and children [...]
The Ethiopian Americans Council (EAC) has managed to convince three members of the United States Congress to submit a bill [...]
The preparations for President Thabo Mbeki's visit to Brussels, on 15 to 17 November, have undergone last minute changes following [...]
4The real estate sector is opening to black entrepreneurs, anticipating the black economic empowerment charter expected in 2005.
A survey of the chambers of commerce of European countries in Johannesburg reveals that foreign investors are confident in the country.
A mission by the secretariat of the Commonwealth has advised President James Michel to regularise his country's relations with donors if he wants to get new international funding.
The contract to run the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (UEDCL) for 20 years, which was to have been awarded [...]
The Ugandan businessman Charles Mbire has been trying to make friends with Norwegian investors in fishing and energy for two years.
One of the three pre-qualified consortia has just been retained to open negotiations to become the country's second national land-line operator.
One of the largest Internet casinos has been registered for some years in the island of Anjouan, one of the [...]
The small shareholders of the Kenyan supermarket chain Uchumi, who for the most part got their shares from the Nairobi [...]
The Foreign Trade Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Roger Lumbala, who is close to the vice [...]
The governments of China and Tanzania signed, on 2 November, an agreement to build a national stadium with a capacity [...]
The Indian group Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces is to [...]
This week the South African national arms manufacturer Denel has [...]
The company UTI International Ltd, registered in the British Virgin [...]
The Zimbabwe Sun Leisure group, the largest hotel operator in [...]
Ali Mohamed Gedi, the Somalian Prime Minister that President Abdullahi Yussuf appointed on 3 November is a man in his [...]
The Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia gathered some of his old friends at the end of a visit to the USA to make some confessions.
The working of the National Assembly is still paralysed while awaiting a decision from the Constitutional Court about the law.
The magistrates could start grumbling again if the bill they support is amended by the parliamentary commissions discussing it.
A Madagascan biologist doctor who has served as a go-between for President Marc Ravalomanana and Germany has fallen into disgrace.
The former South African Minister of Environment and Tourism, Mohamed [...]
The Penang Development Corporation (PDC), a public organisation from the [...]
The International Development Association (IDA, part of the World Bank) [...]
The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to go on [...]
Jean-Pierre Parsi, the general manager of Banque française commerciale Océan [...]
On 1st November, the 114th annual assembly of the Chamber [...]
The chairman of the Conference of African and Malagasy Masonic [...]
The visit to Nairobi on 27 October by the French [...]
Bulcha Demeksa, the former chairman of the Awash International Bank [...]
The forthcoming publication the authorised biography of Armando Guebuza, the [...]