With two years to go until the Kenyan presidential election in 2012, the main potential candidates have embarked on a battle to control the media. The Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta is already a length in the lead, since his [.
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A delegation of parliamentarians led by the Socialist MP Daniel [...]
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The Djibouti lawyer Aref Mohamed Aref has acquired around 20% of the capital in the publisher of the French satirical [...]
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The animosity between the minister for transport and his permanent secretary is nothing new. But this time, their conflict is more serious because the stakes are higher.
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Attempts to renovate the government party were blocked during the recent internal elections.
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The government is working at promoting Tigrayans – and not only in the army and the security organisations.
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The new President of Somaliland is confronted with his first serious security crisis barely two months into his presidency, which began on 27 July.
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The gap has been widening between the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina and his Minister of Transport, Rolland Ranjatoelina.
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The number of members of the President’s side that are candidates is growing rapidly, both for the presidency of the Union and for the governors of the islands.
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The businessman Abdourahman Boreh gathered the leaders of the opposition at his apartment in Paris.
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Eighteen foreign companies now own mining permits in Eritrea and the Asmara authorities constantly have to respond to new requests [...]
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The Luxemburg-based company SRDI will take over security services for Madagascar's international airports, beginning mid-October.
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Two well-known Mauritian economists have joined the board of the Port Louis subsidiary of State Bank of India.
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In spite of its managing director's denials, Keroche Industries is finding it difficult to make ends meet.
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In spite of claiming to be a protégé of the President, the CEO of the Tanzania National Roads Agency will have to leave his post by November.
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Ibrahim Mze, the head of the national IT regulation authority, is very angry with the general director of the national telephone company.
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The Brazilian company Vale has acquired the stake the Mozambican firm Insitec held in the railways.
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Building work on the Hotel Coco de Mare has been put on hold. The builder is in conflict with the project’s Hungarian promoter.
The first Consul General of France in South Sudan, Christian Bader, who is now only waiting for his visa before [...]
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The Chinese magnate Hui Chi Ming, 46, who heads the Banque Industrielle & Commerciale de Madagascar (BICM), as well as [...]
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Observing how reluctant banks are to lend money to Madagascan companies during the current political crisis, Franck Fohine, 39, has [...]
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The Chinese businessman Yanlin Liu, who is at the head of the Guangdong Chuanhui Group that owns a cement works [...]
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The new Vice President of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, ruling coalition), Haile Mariam Desalegn, is a loyal [...]
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General Benoît Puga, 57, who has been President Nicolas Sarkozy’s [...]
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Some leaders of Kenyan Muslim religious organisations have asked the [...]
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The expenditure undertaken by the authorities for the national conference [...]
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The third phase of negotiations to revise the defence agreement [...]
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The timetable of the elections for the President of the [...]
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The French authorities are working on the possibility that President [...]
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During his visit to Madrid last week, President James Michel [...]
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The reason given out officially that the Mozambican President Armando [...]
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The Canadian fish farming specialist, Jean Pierre Réville, last month [...]
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Chinese companies frequently bid rock-bottom prices on road contracts in [...]
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The Kenyan catering company NAS Airport Services was in a [...]
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The American company General Electric (GE) had great ambitions when [...]
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The airline Precision Air, which is owned jointly by Michael [...]
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The British company Stratex International, listed on the London Alternative [...]
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The only two American companies in the running, Symbion Power [...]
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This company owned by the Indian family JSW Steel headed [...]
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The Indian company Ascon, whose workers were responsible for pollution [...]
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The Indian consulting company Gitpac, a subsidiary of Air Travel [...]
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