With over a year to go, political life in Kenya has already polarised with the perspective of the presidential election at the end of 2007, with seven potential candidates at the starting blocks. President Mwai Kibaki will probably defend his [.
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The US Senator for Connecticut, Joe Lieberman, Democrat, filed a motion on 14 July calling for President George W. Bush [...]
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The Sudanese Ambassador to France, Abdelbasit Elsanosi, has had a 45 page historical dossier entitled "Sudan 1956 – 2006, 50 [...]
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Around twenty representatives of French companies are scheduled to attend a lunch on 21 July given in honour of President [...]
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An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation led by the German national Christian Mumsen has been on a working visit to [...]
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A young member of Renamo, not without a certain amount of influence in this opposition party in Maputo, should soon [...]
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The possibility of a military intervention to support its allies in Somalia is dividing the EPRDF.
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The minister of defence has sold the government a farm that according to a report by a presidential committee he had acquired irregularly.
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The suspension of the CEO of the East African Portland Cement Company could be related to his refusal of political interference in the management of this company, in which the State owns the majority of the equity.
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President Elbak has formed a new government seven months before the end of his mandate.
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The governor of the Bank of Mauritius (BoM), Ramesh Basant Roi, may leave his post before time. He has just [...]
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A project to generate electricity from coal which was awarded to a local investor has caused an outcry in Parliament.
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A Toronto based mining company has acquired new exploration licences in Tanzania.
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Four local firms are competing for the contract to boost public relations for the PIC projects.
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A Delaware firm has just acquired 50% of the equity of Somagra, which owns the exploitation rights for a graphite mine in Ambatomitamba.
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A property investment firm from Dubai that is about to embark on a series of vast projects in Djibouti has been given all of the advantages it had asked for.
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The Mauritius authorities will soon negotiate a new bilateral air traffic agreement with their Malagasy counterparts. The aim is to obtain a second service between the two islands.
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The Brazilian firm Orbisat da Amazonia has just struck a deal with a private computer training college, Computer Man College [...]
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The firm Balton Uganda (BUL), specialised in agriculture (irrigation and fertlizer) and communications, is planning to embark on refurbishing Constitution [...]
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A new mobile telephone war is looming in Antananarivo, between Orange Madagascar headed by Patrice Pezat and the firm Telma. [...]
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Jafar Gulamo Jafar, a former Renamo (opposition) Member of Parliament and who has also been an advisor to the party’s [...]
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The French Ambassador to Kinshasa, Georges Serre, who is about to be transferred to the Cameroon, didn’t get the post [...]
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The deputy director general of the Africa and Indian Ocean Department of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in the [...]
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The Special Assistant for Africa to President George W. Bush and Senior Director for African Affairs of the National Security [...]
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The Permanent Secretary of the Kenyan Ministry for Foreign Affairs has just been appointed Ambassador to Tanzania. Boaz Kidiga Mbaya, [...]
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The sixth summit of Heads of State of members of [...]
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The International Development Association (IDA, part of the World Bank [...]
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Jed Dornburg, the Public Affairs Officer of the American embassy [...]
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Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam of Mauritius this week left his [...]
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The computer giant Microsoft has just appointed two new executives [...]
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The Canadian company MDN Northern Mining has a new vice [...]
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The Australian junior Range Resources which controls all of the [...]
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The Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) of Tanzania has had [...]
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Aden Houssein Abdillahi, a technical advisor appointed three years ago [...]
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Among the seven new Ambassadors appointed this week by President [...]
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The Comité d'Organisation des Jeux de l'Océan Indien (COJI) now [...]
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