At the head of a government split over key dossiers and crisscrossed by contradictory political ambitions, head of state Didier Ratsiraka, who is a retired admiral, appears in fact to be a sailor who can't control his ship or his [.
Subscribers only
After eight years as chairman of Tigray Development Association (TDA), Araya Zerihun did not make only friends, especially after appearing [...]
Subscribers only
The incoming managing director of Kenya Ports Authority, Joseph Munyiri Munene, is close to the new transport ministry permanent secretary [...]
Subscribers only
As spokesperson of the United Somali Republic Party (USRP) set up (and chaired) by Galadid A. Darman in Mogadiscio in [...]
Subscribers only
The new German ambassador to Ethiopia is taking over his first posting in Africa. Herbert Honsowitz, 55, began his career [...]
Subscribers only
Eritrean foreign minister Haile Woldensae, who has been having medical treatment in Washington for several weeks, is expected to be [...]
Subscribers only
The authorities of Puntland, the autonomous region in north-east Somalia, who support the diplomatic initiative on Somalia tabled in the [...]
Subscribers only
Araya Zerihun, chairman of Tigray Development Association (TDA, an organization linked to Tigray People's Liberation Front, hardcore of the governmental [...]
Subscribers only
The recent nomination of Pravind Jugnauth, son of ex-prime minister (and leader of the MSM-MMM opposition federation) Anerood Jugnauth, as [...]
Subscribers only
The 800-strong Tanzanian navy has much difficulty patrolling the country's exclusive economic zone because of its few seaworthy ships. Most [...]
Subscribers only
The FRELIMO (governmental party) MP and brother of state administration [...]
Subscribers only
The AREMA (government) candidate for local elections in Antananarivo on [...]
Subscribers only
Democratic Republic of Congo head of state Laurent Desire Kabila [...]
Subscribers only
Twelve years after Kenya broke off diplomatic relations with Libya [...]
Subscribers only
Libyan holding company Investcom in association with Kenyan firm Kilimanjaro Communications Ltd are believed to be well-placed outsiders in the [...]
Subscribers only
Maurice Publicité, the second largest advertising agency on Mauritius boasting of a turnover neighbouring 40 million rupees (US$1 = 25 [...]
Subscribers only
The designation of Zimbabwe national Billy Rautenbach as director general of Gecamines in Democratic Republic of Congo has had spinoff [...]
Subscribers only
With his subsidiary of Pêcheries du Menabe et du Melaky (PMM) on Madagascar having financial problems, Goulamaly Abdeali, a French [...]
Subscribers only
Kenyan exporters fear they will be stymied in Europe by exporters from other countries if the Kenyan government remains indifferent [...]
Subscribers only
Although Government is having great trouble in privatizing its old hotels, there are boundless new buildings under construction all over [...]
Subscribers only
The American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) has launched into a campaign against the Canadian petroleum company Talisman Energy, active in Sudan's [...]
Subscribers only
Mozambique's ruling elite are increasingly angry with the British parastatal Crown Agents, which oversees administration of the Mozambican Customs service. [...]
Subscribers only
The United Nations envisages organizing finance for an electricity power [...]
Subscribers only
A draft Bill on the petroleum sector is expected to [...]
Subscribers only
Lutz Salzmann, the European Union resident representative in Nairobi, is [...]
Subscribers only
Whilst this week during the first meeting in Kampala of the joint military commission stemming from the cease-fire agreements in [...]
Subscribers only
US secretary of state Madeleine Albright is expected to leave Washington on October 17 for a ten-day swing through Africa, [...]
Subscribers only
Planned on the French overseas possession of Reunion Island on December 3, the Indian Ocean Commission summit for heads of [...]
Subscribers only
The company born of TotalFina's takeover of jet aviation fuel [...]
Subscribers only
Although Worldspace Management Corporation chaired by Ethiopian-born Noah Samara has [...]
Subscribers only
The Israeli communications equipment manufacturer Telrad Networks has just beaten [...]
Subscribers only