Spotlight | Madagascar
Paris Seized with Doubt
President Marc Ravalomanana's official visit to Paris next week will give new momentum to France's relations with the new Malagasy regime
President Marc Ravalomanana's official visit to Paris next week will give new momentum to France's relations with the new Malagasy regime
On the eve of the third joint commission of economic cooperation between Iran and Ethiopia, which will take place in [...]
The UMP (French presidential majority) MP from Mayotte, Mansour Kamardine, has just completed a week-long trip to the Comoros Islands [...]
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's official three-day visit to Saudi Arabia this week, part of a tour of several Arab countries, [...]
The South African State company Mintek, in partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), plans to create a new manufacturing [...]
A world conference on wind energy and a fair/exhibition on renewable energy will take place in Cape Town from November [...]
Most of the archipelago's banks, including the State Nouvobanq, are balking at accepting long-term bank deposits from their clients. With [...]
The second phase of renovation work at the Seewoogasur Ramgoolam international airport in Mauritius, financed by the European Investment Bank [...]
Most of Madagascar's businesses haven't bounced back from last year's crisis, and their financial needs are enormous.
Despite efforts to diversify the industry, the clothing sector remains at the center of government's diplomatic concerns.
The South African affiliate of an international firm is advising Maputo on everything concerning Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa.
The South African firm Net Group Solutions (NGS), which last year obtained a contract to manage the Tanzania Electric Supply [...]
The Bank of Scotland landed a two-year management-support contract for the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE, State-owned).
A mission of German businessmen will visit Antananarivo to take advantage of Madagascar's diplomatic openness toward their country.
James Magara, an MP from the Ford People opposition party (which is directed by the former finance minister Simon Nyachae), [...]
The first Somaliland president to be elected in a universal election runs a high risk of being strongly contested from [...]
The executive head of the South African parastatal telecommunications group Telkom just resigned from his duties to take the chief [...]
A dealer from Singapore who exported new and used cars to the Seychelles and other countries for 15 years was [...]
In anticipation of the legislative elections for the parliaments of the autonomous islands and the Union of Comoros, which are [...]
The Kenyan vice-president runs the risk of being tarnished by the saga of businessman Ketan Somaia, who was recently arrested in Nairobi.
At 57, Moeletsi Mbeki no longer keeps his gloves on when criticizing his big brother, President Thabo Mbeki, who is three years older than him.
A State secretary was discreetly put on leave by his minister after repeated complaints from employees in his ministry.
President Robert Mugabe recently warned his ministers against the low-priced privatization of unprofitable State companies.
The Forum francophone des affaires (FFA), is organizing an afternoon [...]
The representative of the World Islamic Trade Organisation (Wito), an [...]
The Afrika-Verein association, which groups German firms active in Africa, [...]
The Portuguese company Ideia Certa Comunicaçao has been awarded a [...]
The American biotechnology trust is interested in a trial in [...]
A new small airline company might see the light of [...]
The Australian company Sub-Sahara Resources began drilling on its diamantiferous [...]
In the beginning of April, Leonard McCarthy replaced Percy Sonn [...]
Eloi Maxime Dovo, the new Malagasy ambassador to Russia, has [...]
Two new ambassadors just presented their credentials to Djiboutian President [...]
A handful of ministers were named to the Coordination Council [...]
Colonel Goshu Wolde and his partisans have just created a [...]
There was a row between the minister of information, Bereket [...]
One of the few police officers with a degree, Mathew [...]