Ten years after they arrived in power in Khartoum, head of state general Omar Hassan Al Bachir and his former mentor Hassan Al Turabi are facing each other in a struggle for power which could end up any way.
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Ex-South African ambassador to France Barbara Masekela might be promoted to be the next board chairman of the South African [...]
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The entourage of head of state Didier Ratsiraka has reacted sharply to the recent publication in a Malagasy-language daily newspaper [...]
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Provisional early returns from Mozambique's general election on December 3-4 reveal a country still politically sliced in two. Incumbent head [...]
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Galvanized by its success in two bye-elections since it was returned to power in December 1995, Parti Travailliste of prime [...]
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Without threatening the popularity of the Eritrean government, discontent over the border dispute with Ethiopia is rising in Asmara. An [...]
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While he does have seven children of whom four are [...]
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According to certain information, a meeting of the Oromo Liberation [...]
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The former Mauritian finance minister is chairman of State Bank [...]
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Initially fixed for December 8, the submission of bids for the purchase of 40 percent of Mauritius Telecom has been [...]
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The United States and South Africa may have managed to settle their trade wrangle over anti-AIDS specialty drugs (ION 872) [...]
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The new private shareholders of Tanzania Italy Petroleum Refinery (TIPER) have still not been able to take over control of [...]
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Saudi industrial magnate Mohamed Al Amoudi is still extending his commercial empire in Ethiopia (eighteen companies at the latest count) [...]
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The Kenyan government is moving heaven and earth with its fund donors to find a way to finance its budget [...]
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After the latest escapade of the Belgian Claude Nobels, the government's diamonds assessor, the Diamond Board is in the sights [...]
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The European Development Fund (EDF) is to consider a credit line of 67 million euro to finance rehabilitation and maintenance [...]
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The European Union has approved a credit line of 55 [...]
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Two retired French army officers who recycled into financial prospectors were held in judicial custody in Djibouti from November 28 [...]
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Ethiopia's rejection last week of technical arrangements accompanying the cease-fire agreement proposed by Organization of African Unity (OAU) has relaunched [...]
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A dozen Western military experts were in Kampala recently, staying at the Sheraton or Grand Imperial whilst their chief, a [...]
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The director of the Jimmy Carter Centre's Conflict Resolution Programme conducted negotiations between Sudan and Uganda which led to the [...]
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The former public relations manager for Crown Bottlers Ltd -- which works with the Pepsi Cola group among others -- [...]
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The former managing director of the now defunct Kenya Post and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) beat candidates from three African nations [...]
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The current coordinator of the financial section of Proparco -- subsidiary of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) for private-sector loans [...]
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Established in Kampala since May 1999, Duncan Mbonyana, managing director [...]
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Peche et Froid Ocean Indien, a subsidiary of the Moroccan [...]
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The Ethiopian government has signed a joint venture agreement with [...]
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