Spotlight | Sudan
The U.S. Pushes for a Global Accord
The American government is pushing for a global peace agreement to be signed before February.
The American government is pushing for a global peace agreement to be signed before February.
Its GSM activity may be flourishing with 700 000 clients, but Kencell has had less luck with its public telephone booth project.
President Assoumani Azali fired the head of the state account verification commission after he wrote an extremely critical report.
An inquiry commission's failure to publish a report on a Lake Victoria navigation accident illustrates a common practice.
Several Israeli firms' search for new contracts was an important dimension of the visit of the Israeli minister of foreign affairs, Silvan Shalom, to Addis Ababa this week.
Several NGOs and Catholic priests are fighting various networks that traffic Mozambican children in Southern Africa.
The Russian company UTair Airlines, the largest helicopter operator in the world, has just won a contract in South Africa [...]
The Faws Pharmaceutical plant, which only began producing medication two months ago, was forced to close its doors. The company [...]
Frelimo's secretary general, Armando Guebuza, who is also the ruling party's future candidate to the year-end presidential election, is reportedly [...]
For several months, various public Tanzanian organizations have been investigating the South African firm that built relays for Vodacom Tanzania [...]
The most recent arrival among foreign oil companies in Sudan, the Indian firm ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), will no doubt [...]
The former prime minister of Gauteng Province in South Africa, who has since become a prosperous businessman in the mining [...]
Several months from this year's general elections, the South African ruling party isn't able to pay all of its employees.
The residents of the country's north fear that the army and militias' mobilization against the rebellion will increase violence in the region.
It has been 10 years since the Oromo community in Addis Ababa has been as riled as it is this [...]
President Mwai Kibaki's bigamy, which was an open secret in his native region, has now become a real state affair.
The follow-up committee for the December 20, 2003 accord met in Moroni this week to specify procedures for the transition period.
After serving in Addis Ababa as the African Union Organization's (AUO) deputy secretary general, then the African Union's (AU) commissioner [...]
President Mwai Kibaki proceeded to name a dozen new ambassadors on January 6. In addition to Peter Nicholas Rateng Oginga [...]
According to the Lettre du Continent (Indigo Publications), the deputy administrator for Africa at the United States Agency for International [...]
As expected (ION 1070), three draft agreements were signed in Moroni this week during the visit of the Chinese minister [...]
The executive director of the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Foundation has just been named Kenya's ambassador to Canada. Peter Nicholas Rateng [...]
The new minister of defense, who was named this week, is calm and affable, but determined. Born in 1947 in [...]
The new Malagasy minister of postal service, telecommunications and communications, named during the ministerial reorganization this week, was a loyalist [...]
The Caisse d'Epargne, the third-largest French banking institution, is expected [...]
A consortium of three Australian oil companies this week signed [...]
The Eritrean government is planning to privatise the National Insurance [...]
During President Mwai Kibaki's visit to London in mid-October 2003, [...]
In addition to its planned visit to Mozambique from March [...]
The Somalia Aid Coordination Body (SABC), which is based in [...]
In addition to the efforts of the former Voice of [...]
The former president of the Central Electricity Board (CEB), Swalay [...]
The secretary of state for trade and industry, Fantaye Biftu, [...]
The former head of the Eritrean demobilization program has just [...]
The Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU), based in Mbale, has [...]
The former financial secretary, Ayoob Nakhuda, will preside over the [...]