After a veritable war of attrition, prime minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny has finally given up resisting a ministerial reshuffle which for two months several parts of the presidential majority have tried to impose on him, under the leadership of national assembly [.
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Anxious not to appear overly pro-Eritrean in the conflict opposing Asmara and Sana over the Hanish Isles (ION N° 700), [...]
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French head of state Jacques Chirac's chef de cabinet, Ms. Annie Lhéritier, went to Reunion Island last week with civilian [...]
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The recent dismissal of several Issa officials belonging to the Mamassan clan like Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon [...]
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The decision of the United States to recall its diplomatic personnel from Sudan at the beginning of February has been [...]
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The new wave of ambassadors appointed at the beginning of March by prime minister Navin Ramgoolam two months after the [...]
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The first round of voting in the Comoros Islands presidential election went off smoothly on March 6 with seventy international [...]
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The widow of Mozambique's late president Samora Machel (and former minister of education from Mozambican independence until the ministerial reshuffle [...]
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In a recent editorial, Journal de l'Ile de la Réunion [...]
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French judge Roger Le Loire, who is leading investigations into [...]
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In the framework of Norway's reorganized development agency Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Raymond Johansen has been named head [...]
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Waltz-time for ministers in South Africa's National Party continues (ION N° 706) and following the resignation of Abe Williams, who [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi has named a new secretary general to head the regional body East African Cooperation, [...]
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A Moroccan national who has spent his whole career with Mobil Oil Morocco, Mohamed El Mehdi Herradi has been appointed [...]
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Appointed at the age of 76 years Mauritian ambassador to the Court of St James (London) and currently honorary president [...]
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The agreement recently signed between the Ugandan government and Nile Independent Power (a joint venture of the US firm EAS [...]
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The new chairman of the Tanzanian association of transporters, Seif Majid, has complained about the increasing costs of the industry. [...]
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Prior to the World Bank consultative group meeting on Kenya in Paris on March 21 and 22, the Kenyan government [...]
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The new Mauritian planning minister, Kailash Purryag, who was temporarily acting as trade minister, announced in Port Louis at the [...]
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According to the Kenyan government's policy framework paper Nairobi's current account will splash US$310 million into the red for the [...]
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Great Britain has called on its European Union partners to step up pressure on the Seychelles authorities to get them [...]
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French public works contractor Colas, which was well-stacked in the list of eleven foreign companies to tender for the contract [...]
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The South African government finally, on March 6, authorized Mossgas to invest 485 million rands (US$125 million) of equity to [...]
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The World Bank will consider organizing a consultative group meeting [...]
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In addition to the contract for repairs and maintenance on [...]
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Reacting to an article on the claims of Malagasy seamen [...]
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Sweden's Kraft Foods Corporation, which used to import the country's [...]
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The International Monetary Fund managed to reach agreement with the [...]
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Sogelerg Ingénierie began a feasibility study at the end of [...]
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The governor of the Central Bank of Kenya supposed aloud [...]
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France's council of ministers on March 6 designated Henry Feral, [...]
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Eritrea opened a consular office headed by Usman Redo in [...]
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Zimbabwe's home affairs minister has threatened to tell the country's [...]
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