Spotlight | Ethiopia
Storm warning for Meles Zenawi
The storm clouds are gathering above the head of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
The storm clouds are gathering above the head of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
The mission to Antananarivo from 19 to 22 May led by the deputy director general for Africa of the Israeli [...]
President George W. Bush has recently appointed a new United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher William Dell, a seasoned career [...]
Mario Elilda dos Santos, the nun from the Servants of Mary congregation, has gone back to her native Brazil, where [...]
A new controversy prevented the inauguration on 27 May of the new legislative assembly of the Union of the Comoros.
The opposition MPs fear that the government is trying to deliberately cut the National Assembly's role to little more than a rubber stamp.
4The boss of De Beers, Nicky Oppenheimer, has organised things so that his son gets a rival to the future accession to the top post.
4Little by little, all of the South African banks are leaving their home base in southern Africa to set up in the rest of the continent.
A major Israeli private company, particularly active in the construction industry, is negotiating a large contract with a Malagasy state firm.
A delegation comprising representatives from three international electricity companies (Electricité de France, Hydro Québec and RWE from Germany), a delegate [...]
One of the biggest advertising agencies in South Africa, Lobedu Leo Burnett will have to replace its director Africa, the [...]
The general meeting of shareholders in State Investment Corporation (SIC) ratified last week the appointment of Deshmuk Kowlessur in the [...]
As well as being the daughter of Ntatho Motlana, a veteran of the fight against apartheid, Nelson Mandela's personal doctor [...]
A young French woman, Anne Van Boxel, who has been since February a partner in the consultants FTHM Conseils founded [...]
The current Deputy High Commissioner of Great Britain to South [...]
The Malagasy property company First Immo which is owned by [...]
The US Department of Commerce has just found in favour [...]
The international credit rating agency Standard and Poor's has just [...]
A black South African has just been appointed for the [...]
The former chief executive of Eskom Enterprise who resigned from [...]
Abdinur Elmi Mahamoud, the interim president of Puntland, wrote to the NGO and to the Somalia Aid Coordination Body (SACB, [...]
A note issued recently by the British embassy in Ethiopia has informed its Ethiopian employees that they can no longer [...]
4The plan by the government coalition to launch a daily newspaper has failed due to the reticence of the Kenyan banks they contacted.
The Reunionese entrepreneur J. C. Pech was not able to meet the President of the General Council of Mayotte during his recent visit to the island.
In spite of competition from the South African company MTN, it was finally Celtel International which bought Vivendi's share of Kencell.
A new five star hotel, comprising around a hundred bungalows by the sea, has just opened its doors in Zanzibar. [...]
Wardi Basbaas is one of the advisors of Equitable Life Investment Company, the Canadian company which has just acquired the [...]
A small firm from Ontario (Canada), Equitable Life Investment Company, has just acquired the rights from Somapetroleum LLC (USA) for [...]
4The five firms short listed for the construction of the Bujugali hydro-electric dam will now have to present their proposals.
4The costly Waterfront project in Dar es Salaam initiated spectacularly three years ago without ever taking off, could be relaunched in 2005.
The International Development Association (IDA, part of the World Bank) [...]
The first international trade fair of the member countries of [...]
A group of Canadians and Djiboutians has just set up [...]
Unable to settle its internal conflicts, including the dispute on [...]
The Djibouti council of ministers has this week approved a [...]
The United Nations Common Air Services (UNCAS) has decided to [...]
For the last few weeks several African Heads of State [...]
A general from the US Air Force has taken over [...]