The anti-corruption platform that led to Jakaya Kikwete’s easy win in the presidential election last year was more than just lip service. The new President was quick off the mark in taking decisions to clean up standards in the government [.
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The Ethiopian Minister of Industry and Trade, Girma Biru, and the head of the Ethiopian Investment Authority (EIA), Abdi Wolde [...]
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King Mohamed VI of Morocco intends to "make up for lost time" in the diplomatic relations between his country and [...]
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The honorary consul of the Seychelles in Hong Kong, Samuel Chan Wing-sun, the owner of the firm YGM Trading, left [...]
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The European development commissioner, Louis Michel, will not be able to go to Baidoa in Somalia on 12 July on [...]
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The parliamentary elections (originally scheduled for the end of 2007) will most probably be held at the same time as [...]
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The Alliance for Freedom and Democracy has been created in a hurry by various groups of Ethiopian opponents, with support from Eritrea.
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An authorisation to shoot a documentary film is at the centre of a dispute between the minister of telecommunications and his culture colleague.
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An agreement is on track between the Member States of the Nile Basin Initiative, but Ethiopia still has a major disagreement with Egypt.
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Former Mau Mau members have banded into three rival groups to claim compensation ahead of the trial against the British authorities.
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The Office Malgache de l'Hydrocarbure (OMH) and the Office National de l'Environnement have just approved the plans of the firm [...]
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The finance minister is putting his contacts into play ahead of his first budget presentation on 9 June.
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The smallest island in the St Anne Marine National Park has been rented to some businessmen who are planning to build a hotel project on it.
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The cost of the project to generate electricity from gas initiated by the firm Artumas has tripled since the estimate made in 2003.
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An American agricultural company is fighting back the onslaught from certain NGOs with a vast advertising campaign.
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The British magnate Nicholas van Hoogstraten has quietly increased his stake in the Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) bringing it to just over 30%.
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A small Canadian mining company has taken out an option to buy six permits to explore for gold in the centre of the country.
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The Kenyan company Panari Centre, which owns the Panari Sky Centre in Nairobi, has requested aid from the International Finance [...]
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A French entrepreneur, Gilles Fontova, a qualified naval architect, has an ambitious wind energy project in Madagascar. Via the firm [...]
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The firm Amalgamated Motor Corporation (AMC), owned by the chairman of ZANU-PF (governing party) for the Mashonaland region, Ray Kaukonde, [...]
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As from 5 July, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) airline Etihad Airways will provide a passenger flight service between Khartoum [...]
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A young lawyer, the only son of Prime Minister Jacques Sylla, recently decided to move his practice to Toamasina (east). [...]
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The first leader of the opposition in Parliament in Kampala following the first multi-party elections for decades in Uganda, will [...]
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As expected (ION 1176), the former chairman of the board of the State company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) was appointed [...]
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Manuel Tomas Lubisse, who had been Ambassador of Mozambique to Germany from 1994 to 1999, has just been appointed Ambassador [...]
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The international branch of the French employers’ association Mouvement des [...]
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The International Development Association (IDA, part of the World Bank) [...]
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A three day international fair will be held from 10 [...]
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Henri Lecacheur, an advisor to President Marc Ravalomanana, has a [...]
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The French Minister of Defence, Michèle Alliot-Marie, replied to a [...]
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The Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) kicked off activity in South [...]
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Sociedade de Industria, Comercio e Serviços Lda (SICS, consultants) underwent [...]
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The new Malagasy Ambassador to Brussels, Jeannot Rakotomalala, is to [...]
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President Jakaya Kikwete appointed Issac Mruma to the post of [...]
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The present Minister-Counsellor in charge of political affairs at the [...]
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The former chair of the Wegagen Bank (1997-2002) has been [...]
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