The South African government has just pulled off the finest ever "guns for jobs" deal in industrial compensation for military contracts. For an order (of submarines, corvettes, helicopters, jet fighters, training planes) worth a total of 30 billion rand, it [.
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Central Bank of Kenya has injected US$33.3 million into National Bank of Kenya (in which the state holds capital) to [...]
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A junior manager at the World Bank who has been seconded to the Eritrean government as economic adviser, Woldai Futur [...]
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The head of the Sudanese external security service Qutbi Al Mahdi is eagerly awaited by Sudanese opponents in Canada where [...]
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A brother-in-law of the late Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, Seraphin Rwabukumba has recycled his activities into selling vehicles on Madagascar. [...]
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Named prime minister on October 22, the leader of Forum pour le Redressement National (ex-opposition) Abbas Djoussouf did not manage [...]
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Following the recent attacks by rebels of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) headed by [...]
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A new political review should appear soon in Ethiopia on the initiative of a group of moderate political opponents mostly [...]
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Europe's Green political parties will gather in Nairobi from December 2 to 6 in their first Euro-African conference, part of [...]
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A delegation of the Sudanese government met in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), in mid-November, the chairman of National Democratic Alliance (NDA, [...]
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Just before flying out of Moroni for Paris on November [...]
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The nomination of this gendarmerie general to be director general [...]
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Complete removal of landmines in the area between Maputo and [...]
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The publisher of the Ethiopian publication Tobia, who had been [...]
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Three opposition formations called on November 25 for the establishment [...]
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About twenty Russian pilots arrived in Asmara on November 25 [...]
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Although Madagascar's BTM has had trouble finding a buyer since the Canadian group Desjardins declared forfeit in June, two French [...]
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Although an Iranian official in Maputo this week confirmed his country's support in building a new petroleum refinery in Mozambique, [...]
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Several airlines (Air Malaysia, British Airways, Lufthansa, Swissair, Virgin Atlantic) are interested in the project to privatize South African Airways, [...]
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The recent decision of Mauritian prime minister Navin Ramgoolam to get rid of the Banque de Maurice (central bank) governor [...]
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General Salim Saleh, a brother and military adviser to head of state general Yoweri Museveni who served as a go-between [...]
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Mystery surrounded the arrival in Victoria this week of a luxury yacht consigned to the new telecommunications company Airtel, which [...]
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The Kenyan government will be compelled to complete establishing the three units (Telkom Kenya, Postal Corporation of Kenya, Communications Commission [...]
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Djibouti finance minister Yacin Elmi Bouh has presented a 1999 finance bill to the current session of parliament which includes [...]
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East African Corporation (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) is to organize [...]
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Although the Malagasy parliament's budget session has been open for [...]
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Agence Française de Développement (ex-Caisse Française de Développement) is due [...]
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The 6,000 Ugandan officers and men stationed in Democratic Republic of Congo are reported to lack assault rifles and munitions, [...]
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Early 1999 will be heavy for Serge Arnaud, France's interministerial secretary for the Indian Ocean named at mid-1998 to this [...]
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The organizers of the negotiations in Rome, last week (ION 834), between the Sudanese government and Sudan People's Liberation Movement [...]
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South African group Safren has decided to sell all its [...]
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Portuguese group Visabeira has set up an association with Italy's [...]
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Stedic, founded in 1987 by ex-prime minister Herizo Razafimahaleo, has [...]
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British publishers Macmillan have signed up with the Ethiopian firm [...]
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