Tension is at a high at the top of a number of State companies, where chairmen appointed for political expediency reign supreme through the support of their overseeing minister, making life difficult for their general managers.
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The number of Heads of State taking part in summit of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) counties in Khartoum from [...]
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The resident representative of the Fondation Friedrich Ebert (FFE, close to the German Social Democrat party) in Antananarivo, Stéphanie Hanke [...]
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The government of the Seychelles will be in a position to repay some of its international creditors, after having put [...]
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According to information from the Ethiopian opposition, the Vice President of the government of South Sudan, Riek Machar, personally met [...]
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While the leadership of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP) in the Diaspora is paralysed by a deep [...]
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The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) is applying pressure to make Somaliland and Puntland accept the idea of applying Sharia law.
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The President of the Seychelles has suspended the charges levelled against the opposition leaders following the confrontation on 3 October.
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Five months after becoming President of the Union, Ahmad Abdallah Sambi still has not been able to impose his authority on Anjouan.
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An informal research group on Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa has just been set up in Portugal. It could serve North American interests.
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Several historical leaders of the Frelimo (ruling) party and former combatants of the liberation struggle have just banded together to [...]
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The prospect of oil exploration work has pushed a company from Mauritius to position itself as a sub-contractor in this sector.
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The Libyan company Tamoil Africa has just got a foothold in the oil distribution sector on Reunion Island and in five African countries.
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The French firm Lafarge and the government in Nairobi are to both simultaneously cut back their stakes in EAPC.
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An exclusive concession awarded to the Djibouti company Salt Investment should interest several foreign firms in working salt on Lake assal.
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This company wants to prevent its adversary from releasing the documents put before the international arbitration tribunal in its dispute with the Tanzanian government.
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The French firm Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques (DRT) has plans [...]
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The company Cidadel Investments Lda increased its capitalisation in July [...]
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The deputy trainer of the UK football team Manchester United, [...]
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The Chinese firm Huaweï has just completed a wireless telephone [...]
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After Uganda and before Ethiopia, Zambia and Kenya, the British New Forests Co wants to begin operating in Tanzania.
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The director and majority shareholder of the weekly magazine Zambeze, the Mozambican journalist Salomão Moyana, founded a new company in [...]
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The British company Lonrho has confirmed its renewed interest in Africa and not only in mines. Indeed, it has just [...]
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The executives of the British company Lonrho are satisfied that their company has not been divested of the 53% it [...]
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The Las Vegas (United States) based firm Magnus International Resources, hitherto specialised in gold-bearing projects in China, is to gain [...]
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The Wilmington (United States) based company First Trading has become the main shareholder of the Madagascan industrial group Sipromad headed [...]
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An African American former State Department diplomat has just joined the National Intelligence Council (NIC) as an expert on African [...]
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The new commander of the Malagasy naval forces, Rear Admiral Abel Nirina Radavidson, wants to take on the permeability of [...]
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The Chief Executive Officer of Manase and Associates Chartered Accountants, Zodwa Penelope Manase, has been chosen to be the new [...]
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One of the most radical leaders of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) who is believed to be one of [...]
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With the deterioration of its financial and economic situation, Eritrea [...]
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The France/South Africa meeting organised by the French employers' federation [...]
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The Pole Intégré de Croissance (PIC) headed by its national [...]
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After a first spate of Ethiopian journalists from the independent [...]
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The Eritirean regime also has its defections. Hence Temesgen Debessai, [...]
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Speaking to Parliament this week, the Seychelles Minister of Finance, [...]
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The political reconciliation between President Mwai Kibaki and his predecessor [...]
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BBC journalist Uduak Amimo has just been promoted senior editorial [...]
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The former chief of staff of the Ethiopian ministry for [...]
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The Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (SASSDA) has a [...]
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