Since he came to power in 2002, President Marc Ravalomanana has had all the time he needs to set up a vast network of accomplices enabling him to keep close control of the members of the government and the top [.
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While Thales (formerly Thomson CSF) managed to avoid at the last minute (ION 1100) being included among the accused in [...]
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Last week, the Members of Parliament of the countries of the Great Lakes region designated Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki as chairman [...]
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Nebiyou Dires Gessese, third secretary of the Ethiopian embassy in Cairo, has defected and taken refuge in the United States. [...]
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Zenani Mandela, daughter of former President Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela, has divorced her husband, a financier and Swazi prince [...]
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Norway's diplomatic initiatives to foster an agreement between the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the hard core faction of [...]
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Ernest-Antoine Seillière, head of the French employers' federation Mouvement Des Entreprises de France (MEDEF), will personally lead his organisation's delegation [...]
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Two American firms, DynCorp and Pacific Architects & Engineers (PAE), are already preparing the arrival in Darfur (Sudan) of a [...]
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A new stand-off has arisen in the last week, opposing the government of the Union of the Comoros under President [...]
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After the American and German ambassadors, the representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation has in his turn warned President Museveni.
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The divisions between the two ruling factions couple with internal competition within the LDP in the run up to the presidential election in 2007.
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The Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture refused to attend the presentation of a report by the anti-corruption commission concerning his ministry.
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While the international community is applying pressure for negotiations to be held on Darfur and the resumption of those between Khartoum and the SPLA, new rebel groups are making their appearance.
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The new CEO of Ethiopian Airlines (EAL), Girma Wake, who is highly popular with the staff since he agreed a [...]
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A new private FM radio station, Madagascar World Radio (MWR) should start broadcasting World Christian Broadcasting (WCB) programmes in January [...]
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In-fighting at Air Tanzania
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Air Bourbon not doing well in Reunion Island
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The transfer of the running of Jirama, the Madagascan national water and electricity utility, to a foreign company, originally planned [...]
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The Norwegian firm SNPI has lost interest in funding a hydro-electric dam at Bujagali, but is now looking to that of Karuma.
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The South African railway company is to study the possibility of multiplying South African exports of magnetite via the port of Maputo tenfold.
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The government efforts to make the island into a seafood hub are beginning to bear fruit.
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A new oil distribution company has been set up in Addis Ababa, bringing their number to three since the sector was privatised.
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Mining companies are testing the government's resolve to implement the black economic empowerment charter in this sector.
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An Italian with links to a security company registered in the Seychelles has been accused by the tribunal in Bari of recruiting mercenaries for Iraq.
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The industrial confectionary company Candico wants to set up in African countries so that it can then take on the market in developed countries.
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The new political attaché at the United States embassy in [...]
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President Mwai Kibaki appointed, on 27 October, the chairmen of [...]
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The major retail chain in Nairobi, Uchumi Supermarket, has a [...]
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As from 1st November, the North West Housing Corporation (NWHC) [...]
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The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, based in Brussels, [...]
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Gunter Karish, a German businessman on a mission to Ethiopia [...]
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The free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and [...]
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The international subsidiary of the South African company Pam Golding [...]
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Although the members of the South African committee to organise [...]
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The consortium which signed a memorandum of understanding in January [...]
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Colonel Alain Jenin, who was a defence attaché to the [...]
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Jocelyne Paka-Chaubo, a French former diplomat, strongly lobbied the Mozambican [...]
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