One year after his return to power, head of state Didier Ratsiraka has failed to re-emerge as the strong man awaited to put some law and order in daily life. Handicapped by illness (his eyesight is so poor he needed [.
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Torrential rainstorms in Somalia have swollen the Juba and Shabelle rivers in the Gelib region north of Kissimayo, merging them [...]
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The central committee of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, opposition) on November 11 protested the arrest and physical liquidation of Oromo [...]
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France's military cooperation mission, which is still part of the ministry of development, is to have a budget of FFr.700 [...]
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French junior minister for development Charles Josselin is due to go to Addis Ababa from December 6 to 8 to [...]
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British Broadcasting Corporation monitoring services report radio programmes transmitted by Eritrean opposition movements in November on the same frequency (9,230 [...]
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According to a representative in Paris, Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebellion) held [...]
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The inter-Comoros conference scheduled for Addis Ababa is seriously compromised. After returning to the Comoros Islands on November 10 to [...]
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The Seychelles national assembly has suspended the MP Wavel Ramkalawan, leader of United Opposition, from seven sittings of parliament after [...]
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The special adviser to prime minister Pascal Rakotomavo, who was [...]
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Xavier Thiéblin, chairman of the Quartier Français group, and his [...]
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The leader of Parti Communiste Réunionnais hopes to head a [...]
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Zimbabwe's finance ministry has issued a Call for bids to hire a consultant to take charge of a new data [...]
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After Black Friday (November 14), which saw Zimbabwe's national currency collapse against the US dollar (from Z$14 to Z$26) and [...]
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Following the entry in vigour of the Balladur Doctrine (from the name of former right-wing French prime minister Edouard Balladur) [...]
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Two Malaysian companies are spearheading all installation contracts in East African countries for electricity generators in the framework of independent [...]
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A recent World Bank mission to Kampala came up with a number of pertinent comments on Uganda's privatization programme. Considered [...]
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With Pretoria likely to grant Beijing diplomatic recognition at the end of the year and recent negotiations for a reciprocal [...]
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State Bank of Mauritius (SBM), the country's second largest commercial bank, has decided to open its capital to a South [...]
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Financing by the parastatal Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) totalling FFr.41 million due to the new operating utility Comorienne de [...]
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Saudi millionaire Mohamed Al Amoudi's Ethiopian-registered Midroc, which planned to [...]
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Seven Stars Minerals and Quest International Resource Corporation say they [...]
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International Development Association (the World Bank concessional lending affiliate) has [...]
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A good-looking man in his fifties, Christophe Durand landed on Madagascar to do business about two years ago in the [...]
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Three of Kenya's five new ambassadors recently named by head of state Daniel arap Moi are career diplomats: Ms. Esther [...]
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Incumbent head of state Benjamin Mkapa was the unsurprising winner on November 14 of the election for chairmanship of Chama [...]
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The chairman of South Africa's Central Energy Fund, the public sector company in charge of state interests in the petroleum [...]
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