Some fifty senior army officers and civil servants from South Africa's defence headquarters began talks on military cooperation with their French opposite numbers in Paris this week. Held on the sidelines of a symposium jointly organized by France's Institut des [.
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In the rush of the dismissal of deputy agriculture minister Kipruto arap Kirwa (see "Government minister dismissed" in this issue), [...]
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New minister of finance in the Ugandan government formed on May 15, where he replaces Jehoash Mayanja Nkangi who had [...]
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The rector of Eduardo Mondiane University in Maputo, Brazao Mazula, is still denying having any idea at the back of [...]
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For the first time in its history, South Africa's ministry of foreign affairs is to be headed by a Black [...]
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US mediators David Dunn (head of the Africa Desk in the US State Department) and Robert Houdek (former US ambassador [...]
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The World Bank mission which went to Antananarivo in April to study institutional changes induced by Madagascar's constitutional reform drafted [...]
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"Cohabitation" did not last long between head of state Daniel arap Moi and his deputy minister for agriculture, the KANU [...]
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The ruling Seychelles People's Progressive Front congress held on May 24 scrapped its policy of "Free education to all at [...]
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Ex-prime minister Anerood Jugnauth's ex-finance minister Rana Sithanen, now in opposition to incumbent prime minister Navin Ramgoolam, is on a [...]
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The chairman of Southern Sudan Coordination Committee (SSCC, structure capping the ten states of Southern Sudan) and former rebel who [...]
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The recent eviction by Somaliland president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal of the interior minister (Mohamed Ahmed Samatar) and deputy foreign minister [...]
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The Public Service Association, a Zimbabwean civil servants' trade union, called on May 26 for salary increases of 30 percent [...]
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Belgian cooperation and development minister Reginald Moreels will make a [...]
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The present head of the Indian Ocean Desk in the [...]
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The foreign ministry civil servant of the Democratic Republic of [...]
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The Mauritian prime minister is expected to make a private [...]
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Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, opposition) held a special congress in [...]
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The Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners (SCEPP) has asked [...]
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The victory of Alliance pour la Rénovation de Madagascar (AREMA), [...]
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On the occasion of the World Soccer match between France and the Republic of South Africa in Marseilles on June [...]
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The International Monetary Fund mission led by Jerry Johnson (a deputy manager on the Africa Desk) which went to Dar [...]
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Without commenting the hypothesis that the next chairman of Portugal's state-owned Hidroeléctrica de Cabora Bassa (HCB, which administers the hydroelectric [...]
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Mozambican company Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) and the government in Maputo have signed an agreement with an international consortium [...]
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The Mtibwa sugar refinery in the region of Morogoro which is to be privatized (ION N° 800), is facing a [...]
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The trade ban Saudi Arabia slapped on imports of livestock from the Horn of Africa at the beginning of February [...]
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Cambridge Chemicals International (CCI) of Great Britain, which used to recover offal from abattoirs in East Africa for processing into [...]
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Cargo Handling Corporation, which manages all maintenance in Mauritius' main port, has signed an agreement with France's Port Autonome du [...]
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A representative of Netter Madagascar has been on mission on [...]
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Newly-formed Seychelles Telecom Ltd, which was recently granted an operating [...]
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Rehabilitation work on Tanzania's Mwanza airport is due to commence [...]
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Britain's Reginald Service, picked by the Tanzanian government to supply [...]
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The British firm Biotec Laboratories Ltd, which specializes in medical [...]
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