One year after his first official visit to the United States, head of state Isaias Afwerki was back there this week on a private visit set up by Corporate Council on Africa. The trip was sponsored by companies such as [.
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Paris backers of presidential runner Didier Ratsiraka have shifted into top gear in pressing for his promotion to the top [...]
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Indigo Publications, publishers of The Indian Ocean Newsletter, opened its Internet Web site in Paris on December 12. The site [...]
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South Africa's former minister Roloef Frederick "Pik" Botha has pulled out of politics and diversified into business with one of [...]
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A Reunion Island court has handed down heavy sentences for corruption to two elected municipal officials in an investigation that [...]
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Head of state Benjamin Mkapa says a 521-page report on corruption he received from judge Joseph Warioba will "serve as [...]
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A group of twenty-five officers and NCOs of colonel John Garang's Sudanese People's Liberation Army from the Bahr El Ghazal [...]
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Ugandan rebels inJuma Oris' West Nile Bank Front have stepped up attacks in past weeks on camps housing south Sudanese [...]
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The second round of the Comoros Islands' general election on December 8 provided a turnout judged even lower than the [...]
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The Mozambican prime minister organized a trip to visit Songo [...]
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The secretary general of Britain's powerful Trade Union Confederation (TUC) [...]
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Officials of Netsanet Le-Ethiopia Radio in the US have taken [...]
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According to Zairean leader Matthieu Mbatayo, a member of the [...]
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After serving as head of the European Union's delegation to Surinam (1990-1994) and to Nigeria (1995-1996), Lutz Salzmann has been [...]
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The nomination of Tinderet MP (and chairman of the Nandi branch of the governmental KANU party) Henry Kosgey as environment [...]
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The former Mauritian finance minister has become a European Union consultant for a support project of economic liberalization and privatization [...]
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The appointment of tough-minded socialist Ms. Tove Strand Gerhardsen as director general of Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) sees [...]
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South Africa's Interair airline will be the first off the mark with a regular weekly air link between Johannesburg and [...]
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Endowment Fund For the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT), the holding company created by leaders of Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF, [...]
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An important delegation of Indian government officials was expected on Mauritius at the end of this week to begin negotiations [...]
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe have set up a joint commission to study problems of sharing the countries' common water resources. The [...]
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The tripartite meeting on the draft tariff for electricity from Cabora Bassa took place, an official communique claimed, "in a [...]
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Ethiopia has been awarded US$7.3 million in military aid from the United States under a $15 million aid programme for [...]
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The project to exploit the Kasese cobalt mine in western Uganda is still looking for finance. The French parastatal Bureau [...]
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Parastatal Caisse Française de Développement officials last month okayed a [...]
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A report on Denmark's aid to Uganda carried out recently [...]
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Charter airline Corsair (a subsidiary of French tour package operator [...]
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The chairman of the East Africa section of Conseillers du [...]
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A joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund delegation landed in Nairobi last week on a fifteen-day mission. Led by [...]
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