A decade after the end of apartheid, some forty influential families have tied up the State's main businesses and operations of black economic empowerment, giving the regime in Pretoria the appearance of an emerging oligarchy.
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The political and religious authorities in Madagascar are getting worried about the activities of a visionary pastor who sees himself becoming President in 2012.
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The team for the election campaign of the candidate of the Frelimo (government) party for the presidential election at the [...]
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Ugandan Muslims are trying to organise ahead of the 2006 elections and fight back against their economic and political sidelining.
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Although he left the presidency in April, France Albert René still has his hands on some of the controls at the headquarters of the SPPF.
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A few French friends of Djibouti were at a reception at the Djibouti embassy in Paris to support President Ismaël Omar Guelleh.
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The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, may be the Guest Speaker at the annual dinner of the [...]
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Thabo Mbeki has called for Belgian firms to seize the opportunities that will arise in his country due to its staging the football World Cup in 2010
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The German firm Lahmeyer was preferred to CGE for the contract to run Jirama, to the great disappointment of the French authorities.
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The Ukranian central bank has followed in the footsteps of its Russian counterpart and issued a warning against banks registered in the financial offshore of Anjouan.
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The IMF mission in Moroni has criticised the way the 2004 budget was implemented and wants things to be done differently in 2005.
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The mission to Paris by the island's employers associations planned for the end of November has been put back until January.
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The consortium led by the Brazilian Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has been awarded the contract to extract coal [...]
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Jean-Charles Potvin, chairman of the Canadian company Tiomin Resources Inc, lobbied in favour of his company's project in Kenya, during [...]
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A series of law firms from Nairobi have been short listed for the contract that the Kenyan government is planning [...]
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After the recent sacking of Evans Mukolwe from his post of director of the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS), the Kenyan [...]
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The new general director of the Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB), Joseph-Alain Sauzier, is a former banker who has become financial [...]
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The chairman of the Assela Chamber of Commerce and former deputy chairman of the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce (ECC), Aschalew [...]
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Daniel Lamy, a Frenchman settled in Antananarivo for more than a decade, has had problems with the Ivato Aéroclub of [...]
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The Kenyan government is currently setting up a number of Kenya Investment Committees in several European countries, via its foreign [...]
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The Vietnamese authorities have filed an official protest with Tanzania about a boat owned by the Sea Saigon Shipping Company [...]
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During President Thabo Mbeki's visit to Belgium, the Belgian and South African Defence Ministers, André Flahaut and Mosiuoa Lekota signed [...]
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The President of the African Union (AU) Alpha Oumar Konare, [...]
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The Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) has a new board, chaired [...]
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Cable & Wireless has a new boss in the archipelago, [...]
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A new governor of the Northern Red Sea Region has [...]
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The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has [...]
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The three countries of the East African Community (EAC, Kenya, [...]
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The China-Africa Business Council (CABC), which has been in gestation [...]
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The presence of several Kenyan Ministers at the Kenya Business [...]
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During World AIDS day, on 1st December, Nelson Mandela will [...]
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While visiting Addis Ababa this week, Jan Petersen, the Norwegian [...]
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As part the dividing up of destinations with its partner [...]
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The Tanzanian company Precision Air Services Ltd (Precisionair), which operates [...]
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The Irish company Kenmare Resources Plc has appointed a new [...]
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As from 24 November, Air Zimbabwe is to inaugurate a [...]
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