The Madagascan authorities have undertaken a tight timetable for the privatisations, which the international donors want to be kept to. In a memorandum sent to the IMF on 2 March, the governor of the central bank, Gaston Ravelojaona, and the [.
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The President of a small political party close to the government coalition has been imprisoned for trafficking visas and impersonating a public official
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The Civic United Front reacted strongly to the attempt by the Zanzibar police to blame it for the recent spate of bombings.
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The view of the Djibouti authorities that the terrorist threat against the German President Johannes Rau ?could not be taken [...]
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The attempt by the government of the Union to replace two directors of state companies in Moheli has pushed the tension on the island up a notch further.
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After being released on bail, the president of the Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce fled to the USA where he is planning to ask for asylum.
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4The International Financial Corporation is to fund part of the development programme of a South African safari company.
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The computing and new information technology sector is still largely the privileged domain of white experts and bosses.
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A Seychelles firm has succeeded in winning some of the security contracts in Iraq, to handle the protection of western media.
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The company Firestone East Africa, owned by the Sameer Group of Kenya and managed by Naushad Melali, is losing part [...]
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The leading mobile telephone company in Kenya, Safaricom, a joint venture between the government and the British company Vodafone, is [...]
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A great many companies quoted on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) have cancelled their decision to attributed dividends to their [...]
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Kenmare Resources Plc has just taken a step nearer to exploiting the Moma Titanium Minerals Mine in Mozambique. This Irish [...]
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The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC, state) is looking for a strategic partner with which to go into the distribution of [...]
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The ambitious tourist project of the Bay of Russia, in the north west of the country, is being rekindled by promoters from Mauritius.
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4The chamber of trade and industry deplores the economic that the government's economic programme is not as free-market oriented as promised.
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The privatisation of the railway line between Maputo and Ressano Garcia is to start before originally planned.
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Zanu-PF, the Zimbabwean government party, is reacting to its increasing isolation by the European Union (EU) and the USA, by [...]
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The efforts of the American State Department and the Trade Department to organise the participation of American companies in the [...]
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Several clues would seem to suggest that Didier Ratsiraka, the former Madagascan president, could still be able to pull strings [...]
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The former mayor of Cape Town (ION 827) has just been appointed South African Ambassador to Canada. Theresa Solomon, 59, [...]
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The new South African Ambassador to Germany is an MP, 55, born in Pretoria. Moses Mabokela Chikane graduated in economics [...]
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A protestant pastor, MP since 1999 and a member of several parliamentary committees (including the ones on agriculture and land, [...]
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It was finally the candidate of the alliance between the Mouvement Départementaliste Mahorais (MDM) and the Mouvement des Citoyens (MDC) [...]
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The Djibouti ministry of presidential affairs, whose boss is Osman Ahmed Moussa, has a new general secretary in the person [...]
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The former head of the Federal Sports Commission, who is [...]
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The Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et d'Agriculture d'Antananarivo (CCIAA) is [...]
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The South African Consul General to Los Angeles has just [...]
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A document dated March 13 and signed jointly by the [...]
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The Africa Centre for Investment Analysis (ACIA) of the University [...]
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Several organisations on Reunion Island have joined forces with the [...]
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Two companies in the Italian textile consortium Gruppo Zambaiti, have [...]
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Henri Jacky Radavidra, chairman of the Groupement des Entreprises Franches [...]
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The company Diamond Fields International Ltd (DFI), which belongs to [...]
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The post of deputy leader of the Mauritius Labour Party [...]
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Brigadier Mohamed Hussein Ali was appointed Commissioner of Police on [...]
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Rodolphe Rakotoarison, the Secretary General of the Madagascan State House [...]
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