The approaching World Bank consultative group on Mozambique has relaunched the debate on cleaning up Mozambique's state-owned companies. International fund donors are expected to use the Paris meeting (April 17 and 18) to jog the Maputo authorities over their failure [.
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Head of state Benjamin Mkapa recently decided to dissolve the boards of nineteen state-owned enterprises and bodies with a view [...]
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It was aboard a Falcon-50 jet named Laurent Bouillet that Fernand Wibaux, the personal diplomatic adviser to French head of [...]
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Head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon gave in to pressure from his nephew (and chef de cabinet) Ismail Omar Gelleh [...]
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Hanfareh Ali Mirah, the chairman of regional council Number Two (Afar) who is the son of sultan Ali Mirah and [...]
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The announcement by colonel John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army on March 25 of the capture of two frontier towns [...]
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British anger is not cooling in the face of the Economic Development Act, the controversial new Seychelles law which guarantees [...]
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During his visit to Harare this week, chancellor of the exchequer Kenneth Clarke pledged a British government grant of £10 [...]
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Solomon Kabede Tafesse, a former Ethiopian army captain who fled his country at the time of former president Haile Mariam [...]
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Head of state Joaquim Chissano had a long and difficult [...]
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Diplomats of European Union member-countries stationed in Kampala are to [...]
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Tanzania's Civic united Front (opposition) would like to persuade foreign [...]
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After seeing more than 120,000 tourists pour onto the Seychelles in 1995 (10 percent more than the previous year), the [...]
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The Kenyan government has put its full weight behind efforts to convince international fund donors attending the World Bank consultative [...]
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South African executive deputy president Thabo Mbeki is to make an official visit to Portugal in April to meet the [...]
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Private-sector operators on Mauritius are looking longingly across at Madagascar and Mozambique for investment or delocalization. The chances were weighed [...]
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After a long investigation, police in Moshi, a town in the region of Kilimanjaro, have arrested a businessman on charges [...]
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Ugandan natural resources minister Henry Kajura announced on March 25 that the government in Kampala had decided to put an [...]
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The French mercenaries who formed the backbone of late president Ahmed Abdallah's presidential guard on the Comoros Islands in the [...]
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Djibouti's finance and economy minister Mohamed Ali Mohamed has returned home reassured after his recent visit to the International Monetary [...]
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Italian businessman Gian Battista Totaro, who lives at Via G. [...]
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The consortium Songas has launched a preselection operation for the [...]
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On recommendations of the commission for privatization, the previous Comoros [...]
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Comoros head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim has followed the advice of those among his French friends who advised [...]
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The Seychelles representative of the British telecommunications multinational Cable and Wireless, Albert Payet, was recently elected unopposed as chairman of [...]
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The present cultural attache at the French embassy in Dakar, Guy Serieys, has been named head of the cooperation and [...]
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French head of state Jacques Chirac on March 11 named Marcel Surbiguet as ambassador to The Seychelles, replacing Pierre Viaux. [...]
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Incoming head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim chose March 26, the day after his own inauguration, to name a [...]
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Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim has chosen a [...]
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Portuguese foreign minister Jaime Gama outlined his idea of a [...]
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Madagascar's finance minister welcomed a Libyan government delegation in Antananarivo [...]
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The leader of Forces Vives Rasalama (president's majority) stormed out [...]
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