This week has seen the anti-government riots replaced by a political arm-wrestling match between head of state Daniel arap Moi and the National Convention Executive Committee, the new body which heads opposition mobilization for constitutional reforms and wants to push [.
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The Presidential Commission on Leadership Ethics at the end of June gave five Tanzanian MPs a new deadline of two [...]
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Mouvement Populaire Anjouanais, which now consolidates all separatist formations on Anjouan Island, announced on July 19 the creation of a [...]
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The Uganda People's Defence Force (government armed forces) department of transport and logistics is believed to have discreetly moved several [...]
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Incoming French Socialist foreign minister Hubert Védrine is expected to make an official visit to the Republic of South Africa [...]
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Head of state France Albert René has appointed the former secretary general (for the past four years) of the Indian [...]
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South African police investigating traffic in forged Mozambican passports last week carried out searches in the Mozambican consulate in Johannesburg [...]
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The French government reaffirmed on July 23 its attachment to the territorial integrity of the Comoros Islands and condemned the [...]
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One of the daughters of head of state Didier Ratsiraka, Annick, who is a junior official working on sponsoring for [...]
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The manager of the Caribou hotel-restaurant on Mayotte Island, Luc [...]
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USAID is financing a report on northern Uganda which will [...]
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Tanzanian police seized one kilogramme of heroin worth an estimated [...]
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USAID administrator Brian Atwood awarded stars and black marks for [...]
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Portugal's director general of national defence, general Gonçalves Ribeiro, was [...]
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Air Comores, Air France, Air Madagascar, Air Mauritius and Air Seychelles signed a letter of intent on Mauritius on July [...]
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A contract authorizing Salmiyah Technical Services International, a Lebanese offshore company, to dump 200,000 tons of industrial waste from Europe [...]
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South Africa's deputy ministers of trade and industry (Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka) and agriculture (Ms. A. Thoko Didiza) headed a trade [...]
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Saudi Aramco is still negotiating a participation of at least 27.5 percent in the capital of the Portuguese state-owned company [...]
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Greek national Ms. Georgia Papassinos, who inherited some real estate in Ethiopia which was nationalized in 1975 and which her [...]
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Since the arrival in power of head of state Didier Ratsiraka, nominations are falling fast at Air Madagascar, which has [...]
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The installations of the old US satellite tracking station on La Misère Mountain, at Mahe, are to be recycled into [...]
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South African telecommunications utility Telkom this week awarded a major contract for wireless access telephone network (cellular telephone) equipment to [...]
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Djibouti businessman Said Ali Coubeche wrote to The Indian Ocean [...]
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It is not the World Trade Organization agreement which the [...]
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The closure from August 1 of the Assab refinery in [...]
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Issa Mohamed, Zanzibar's minister of information, culture and youth, speaking [...]
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Ugandan finance minister Mayanja Nkangi has announced fresh nominations within the management of the state's Uganda Revenue Authority. The present [...]
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Amos Masondo, currently head of health affairs in Gauteng Province, is expected to succeed Mosima "Tokyo" Sexwale as prime minister [...]
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A situation fairly unusual in Mauritian diplomacy: it is Ms. Ghislaine Henry, member of the political bureau of Parti Mauricien [...]
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No surprises for the management of Kenya Tea Development Authority: the parastatal organism's board has just renewed Stephen M. M'Imanyara [...]
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