Spotlight | Tanzania
The railway wars
The granting of a contract for 25 years to run the Tanzanian railways will provide a good fight between the principal consortia contending.
The granting of a contract for 25 years to run the Tanzanian railways will provide a good fight between the principal consortia contending.
The Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs has sponsored a Conference on Conflict Resolution in the Horn of Africa, organised in [...]
A delegation of fourteen people led by the Kenyan deputy minister of tourism and information, Boniface Mghanga, is to go [...]
The European Commission was recently called to task by Spanish Green party member Raul Romeva. He asked it to take [...]
The Prime Minister, who is currently in the firing line and widely criticized even in the ranks of his own party, is fine tuning his PR.
The President of the Union has lost, one after another, the two journalists who pushed him on the waves of Radio Comoros.
The Ethiopian Minister of Information, Bereket Simeon, who was asked by the Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (ION 1100) to negotiate [...]
Frelimo's secretary general had no less than ten rendezvous during his brief stop-over in Paris on October 1st.
Putting in place the heads of the twenty two new administrative region structures is having serious problems.
The Minister of Justice, Harka Areyo, has just published a [...]
Just three weeks after the seven members of the constitutional [...]
Stephen Schwartz, the new number two of the United States embassy to Mauritius, which also handles the Comoros Islands and [...]
After six years as managing director of Barclays Bank in Mauritius, Jacques de Navacelle will leave his post at the [...]
President Marc Ravalomanana has taken on a loyal ally to be his new special advisor for public relations. He is [...]
President Marc Ravalomanana's former cabinet director, Gédéon Février Rajaonson, has changed jobs to become director general of the company Asa [...]
The transfer of the supervision of the National Social Security Fund from the ministry of labour to that of finance was one of the IMF's conditions.
The choice of the new boss of the Port Authority is a compromise after several other strongly tipped candidates had refused the post.
Although the political climate has calmed down, the economic situation has been much bleaker than expected during the first half of this year.
The major contract worth around 20 million euros signed in mid September by Areva TD with the Ethiopian authorities has [...]
Against the wishes of the two governments, the reception of offers for the contract to run the Chemin de fer [...]
The service to the Seychelles in the coming weeks by Qatar Airways and Emirates should bring some profound changes to [...]
The government of Tanzania has prevented the local authority of Mwanza from contracting a loan for $35 million from the [...]
The owner of the firm Royal Media Services, Samuel Kamau Macharia, better known by his initials SK, is in the [...]
The joint privatisation of the Kenyan and Ugandan railway networks will involve massive investments which could put off certain companies.
An investigation by a French judge could find that offshore banking in Mauritius has been used by companies for paying bribes.
The secretariat of NEPAD has just created a new department, [...]
For the first time, two officials of the Berlin based [...]
The European Union (EU) has signed a new six year [...]
A new representative for the World Bank is to set [...]
The monthly magazine L'Echo Austral, published in Reunion Island, has [...]
A new deputy secretary general for the East African Community [...]
The French company Dagris which held 38% of Hasyma (cotton) [...]
The Canadian company registered in Ontario, Currie Rose Resources Inc [...]
While it was in Kinshasa at the end of September, [...]