Little more than four years after the bombings at the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es-Salaam, on November 28 Kenya was again the target of a double terrorist attack in Mombasa. Fifteen people died and many more were wounded [.
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President Thabo Mbeki could take advantage of the ruling party's convention to propel the minister of foreign affairs to the head of the ANC.
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In addition to its candidates in the legislative elections, KANU has enlisted representatives to work on Uhuru Kenyatta's presidential campaign.
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During a colloquium on the Horn of Africa in Paris on November 27, the assistant director for East Africa at [...]
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After four weeks of suspension, the peace negotiations on Somalia will be taken up again in Eldoret (Kenya) next week
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The expulsion of Malagasy lieutenant colonel Balbine - who was imprisoned for supporting the Ratsiraka regime - prompts a lively controversy
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The general consul for Madagascar in South Africa since 1997, Bruno Ranarivelo has just been named ambassador to Mauritius. This [...]
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During a recent extraordinary general meeting of member's, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), the most significant employers' organization in [...]
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A Tanzanian career diplomat, Muhammad Ali Foum, has just been designated as a special envoy to Somalia by the African [...]
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One of the judges dismissed by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, government coalition) before being reinstated in October [...]
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The 78th annual East African Breweries Ltd (EABL) shareholder meeting, which will take place next week in Nairobi, could be [...]
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According to an official September 2002 report, the 16 oil distribution firms active in Uganda will soon be under stricter [...]
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Portuguese authorities had a new idea for how to organize negotiations on electricity rates sold to South Africa by the [...]
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A good part of European aid for the next five years will serve to rehabilitate the infrastructures destroyed by the war with Ethiopia.
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A large gift from the Cyprus Orthodox Church, meant to help orphans and widows in Tanzania, was embezzled for personal gain.
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Even though it was chosen by a technical committee, Galana Petroleum's purchase offer for a hydrocarbon department wasn't unanimously approved
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The transfer of 30% of the Zimbabwean government's stock in TelOne (fixed telephone) and NetOne (mobile telephone) to a strategic [...]
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The implosion of a Kenyan-Ugandan joint venture is threatening to delay a World Bank program for the Kampala government.
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A foreign telephone company in Anjouan prompts a counterattack from the Société nationale des postes et telecommunications (SNPT)
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As Zimbabwe has just opened an embassy in Iran, the relationship is getting closer between these two countries. Teheran granted [...]
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The former United States ambassador to Ethiopia (1996-99), David H. Shinn, who is now an associate professor at George Washington [...]
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The Asmara government has replaced its ambassador to China, Mohamed Nur Ahmed, who was increasingly critical of the Eritrean army's [...]
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A small Lithuanian company that specializes in repairing and selling Russian-made helicopters is suspected of violating the embargo on selling [...]
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Standard Bank, the largest bank in South Africa, is looking [...]
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The only French bank in Kenya is at risk of [...]
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In late October, a group of investors founded Djibouti Marina [...]
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The company Pentasoft Technologies Ltd confirmed its intention to invest [...]
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The British company African Lakes Corporation named a new managing [...]
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A new ambassador from South Korea presented his credentials to [...]
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The first advisor to the Madagascar embassy in Paris has [...]
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Vidula Nababsing, the wife of Prem Nababsing (an advisor to [...]
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The PNUD office in Addis Ababa is in the process [...]
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Representatives of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC, Kenyan opposition) will [...]
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The prime minister of Mozambique, Pascoal Mocumbi, made it on [...]
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