The appointment of a very large (almost 100 Members) coalition government between the two main rivals in the December 2007 presidential election, President Mwai Kibaki and his new Prime Minister Raila Odinga, will bring a temporary halt to their conflict.
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The European Commission special envoy for Somalia, based in Nairobi, [...]
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The web site of the Ministry of Commerce of the [...]
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The Malagasy Head of State is used to having everyone at his beck and call. So he did not appreciate [...]
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Paul Bérenger’s MMM party will not repeat last year’s exploit on May 1st and announce a spectacular series of new party members. Instead, it will consolidate its position ahead of the general election in 2010.
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The Presidents of the autonomous islands of Mohéli and Ngazidja are opposing the President of the Union's desire to amend the constitution to stay in power.
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The Ethiopian government is counting on Somaliland and Puntland to help it rid itself of the ONLF rebels.
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Two recent meetings by American officials with Eritrean opposition leaders supported by Ethiopia are illustrative the diplomatic line being taken by the United States.
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The Sudanese negotiator Riek Macher is trying a final attempt at mediation after the LRA leader refused to sign a peace agreement with Kampala at the last minute.
The authorities of the Union have not withdrawn the ban on transporting Comoran illegal immigrants expelled from Mayotte to the three Comoros islands.
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A recent document entitled "Doing Business in Djibouti : 2008 Country Commercial Guide for US Companies" published by the Commercial [...]
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Yunis and Shamin “Chippy” Shaik have sold their Mozambican mining company to the Canadian firm Pacific Wildcat Resources Corp.
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Leonardo Simao has just created a new company registered at the same address as the Fundaçao Joaquim Chissano, of which he is the executive director.
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A Kenyan company, whose opinion polls ahead of the December 2007 general election were highly criticized in Nairobi, has now created a subsidiary in Maputo.
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The businessman implicated in the Goldenberg scandal has come back to light with a project to transform precious stones imported raw from other countries in the region.
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The investigation into the way the Kiwira coal mine was privatised in 2005 has turned out to be like a set of nested Chinese boxes. One disclosure frequently hides another.
The end of the Swissport Tanzania monopoly has opened the door for new players in the area of passenger and baggage handling in the Tanzanian airports.
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While on a visit to Kampala, the Libyan President preferred to stay with a Ugandan businessman rather than at a hotel. He wants to build a copy of this house in Libya.
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This Lebanese naturalised Belgian and now living in Mozambique where he is notably a partner in the firm Kudumba together [...]
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When the coalition between the Labour Party (LP) and the Parti Mauricien Xavier Duval (PMXD) came to power in July [...]
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Professor Braun Rakotoarison de Ruffin, of the University of Antananarivo, has just had a double promotion. A specialist in livestock [...]
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An American of Ethiopian extraction is one of the organisers of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic Party (DP) investiture [...]
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The new Indian Ambassador to Madagascar, Azad Singh Toor, who will celebrate his 57th birthday in Antananarivo on 4 October, [...]
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Prime Minister Luisa Diogo would seem to have been keeping a low profile since the last ministerial reshuffle. This has [...]
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The Consul of France in Luxembourg for the last four [...]
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The son of Prime Minister Luisa Diogo together with another [...]
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The former Commissioner of Police André Kilindo, who is currently [...]
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Sudanese troops are stationed in Ethiopia on the banks of [...]
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Philippe Hitié, the head of Summertimes and the Mauritius agent [...]
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Some Mozambican diplomats on post in Paris and Lisbon were [...]
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The visit to Paris last week of the chairman of [...]
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The Madagascan President was in a very good mood when [...]
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The former Mozambican rebel movement has decided to legalise its [...]
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The head of the National Security Service (NSS), who has [...]
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The Christian NGO World Vision Somalia has ordered a delicate [...]
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This Romanian firm specialised in rail transport of oil products [...]
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This Norwegian firm, parent company of Sao Hill Industries (SHI) [...]
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The short-lived head of press relations for Hery Rafalimanana, the [...]
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The head of the firm Rina Jewels and chairman of [...]
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The former Mozambican President Joaquim Albert Chissano has created a [...]
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This Canadian company is strengthening its position in Tanzania even [...]
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The young British company founded last year and holding 18 [...]
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The Dutch consulting company was not the cheapest, but it [...]
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The South African subsidiary of the American merchant bank, whose [...]
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