While they may still be Stalinist in their politics, the big shots in the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) have long since been active in business and a fair number of them are owners or shareholders of private [.
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The Portuguese President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, began a tour of Africa on 23 June, taking [...]
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The head of the Rarihasina Malagasy cultural centre, Juliette Ratsimandrava, has just seen her long fight for the renovation of [...]
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The programme of the official visit by French President Jacques Chirac to Madagascar on 21 and 22 July has still [...]
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The firm Marcusevans is to organise a conference in Sun City (South Africa) from 14 to 16 September entitled Defense [...]
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Several ministers have instigated initiatives intending to improve good governance within the Mozambican executive (ION 1137). Meanwhile, the Prime Minister [...]
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Thabo Mbeki's designation of a new Vice President illustrates the importance prestigious couples have in his regime.
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President Assoumani Azali has had to make concessions so that the Presidents of the Islands will attend the independence day celebration.
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An American of Iranian extraction, formerly the executive of the firm Dole in Somalia during the mid 1990s, has moved into the fisheries industry in Djibouti.
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The nature of the government to be installed to get the country out of its political crisis is at the heart of the debate.
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The Presidential Parastatal Sector Reform Commission (PSRC) gives the impression that it wants to do everything it can to award [...]
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A new conflict is pitting the Kenya Revenue Authority against the supermarket chain owned by the Shah brothers' Nakumatt Holdings.
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An international investment fund has acquired a French company specialised in generating electricity from coal and bagasse.
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The Walloon government has refused to licence a Belgian firm to build a munitions factory.
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Not to be outdone by Kenya, some Ugandan businessmen want to use their country's good terms with the SPLA to do business with South Sudan.
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Long Island prison is to be demolished to make way for the construction of a hotel. It is to be built by an undisclosed Hungarian group.
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Chinese technicians are preparing two projects to grow rice and vegetables in Mohéli.
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The Kenyan bank National Industrial Credit (NIC), whose new managing director is James Macharia, wants to expand its presence in [...]
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A dozen small airlines carry charter passengers and freight throughout Sudan, serving airports controlled by the Sudanese government. Some of [...]
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The new administrator of the railway company Madarail, the Belgian Patrick Claes who has taken over from François Lisambert (ION [...]
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The Canadian company Kansai Mining Corp has just fleshed out its board by appointing two directors, a Venezuelan (former ambassador [...]
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The Prime Minister Jacques Sylla has just taken a new non permanent advisor in the person of Jean-Aimé Rambeloson. This [...]
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Philippe Chansay-Wilmotte, the Belgian lawyer of the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, has just launched [...]
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Following the promotion of the Minister of Mines and Energy, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to the post of Vice President this week [...]
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The Kenyan ministry of trade and industry is in negotiation [...]
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According to the South African government, the National Aeronautics and [...]
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The gulf is widening inside the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM, [...]
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Finally, Antananarivo will not be host to a Sanga (festival [...]
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The firm Eskom Enterprises Uganda Ltd, subsidiary of the South [...]
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The Portuguese group João Ferreira dos Santos (JFS), which has [...]
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A number of Tanzanian immigration officials recently entered the offices [...]
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The El-Maaroof national hospital centre of the Comoros has a [...]
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President Thabo Mbeki has just received the credentials of the [...]
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The Ugandan army has a new representative in Parliament in [...]
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Miroslav Krenek is the new ambassador of the Czech republic [...]
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