Dignitaries and their families of the ousted regime in former Zaire seem to be laying back enjoying the sunshine in the Republic of South Africa, where ex-president Mobutu Sese Seko and some of his close relatives reportedly stashed some of [.
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Despite a slight rise in Mauritian satisfaction rating for its government's performance (30 percent, up from 27 percent in February), [...]
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Tanzanian ex-president Julius Nyerere has just made a mission to Brussels, before going on to London, to lay the foundations [...]
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After a faction of Parti de la Rénovation Démocratique (opposition) held its congress on May 23 and designated Abdillahi Hamareiteh [...]
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Ms. Honorine Ravony, the estranged wife of former Malagasy prime minister Francisque Ravony and daughter of the late president Philibert [...]
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France has axed a FFr.6 million "priority" development programme for French and South African NGOs because of official "reservations" on [...]
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Reacting to the article ""Keep it French" in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N° 764), Dr. Jean Baptiste Richardier, head [...]
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The military situation is confused in the southern Sudanese province of Bahr El Ghazal with fighting at several points between [...]
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Incumbent MP Henry Jean Baptiste topped the Mayotte Island poll in the first round of the French general election, but [...]
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US president Bill Clinton's adviser for Africa Susan Rice has [...]
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After his visit to Egypt, where he signed a peace [...]
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France's professor Christian Cabrol, who is an MEP for RPR [...]
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The former operations manager of National Shipping Agencies Company has [...]
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Djibouti national Ali Chechem Ali, who works with the United [...]
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Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim left Moroni on [...]
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Following attempts by the Sudanese government to persuade head of [...]
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The Boullosa group took advantage of the recent visit to Maputo by Portuguese head of state Jorge Sampaio to launch [...]
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Calls for bids for the privatization of thirty state-owned companies will be issued over the coming months (nine have already [...]
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South African Chamber of Business played to a full house on May 29 to hear Ugandan deputy prime minister Eriya [...]
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Tanzania's petroleum imports may be turned off, unless the government pays its bills with National Bank of Commerce, which says [...]
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Again this year (ION N° 727) Eastern Africa Association, a British company federation, has interrogated its members in Kenya on [...]
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Encouraged by its investments in the banking and insurance sectors of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and lately Mauritius, the Aga Khan [...]
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Electricity utility Eskom has been invited to be the leader of a group of South African state-owned companies which are [...]
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In the framework of a six-month economic watchdog programme for the Comoros Islands, which was initiated by the International Monetary [...]
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The Seychelles' trade deficit flourished in 1996 to exceed 1.1 [...]
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On the initiative of Centre pour le Développement Industriel ACP-EU [...]
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The recently formed consortium (China National Petroleum Corporation, Petronas Carigali [...]
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According statistics from the Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority and Zanzibar's [...]
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A nephew of the Reverend Philippe Gabboush who since the 1960s has been defending the cause of the Nuba people [...]
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Chairman since 1990 of South African Breweries, the country's leading brewery (and fourth ranked in the world), Meyer Kahn has [...]
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Military sources in Kampala claim that the Kenyan government has offered a Ugandan rebel, Herbert Itongwa, the job of training [...]
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Two days after complaining in a press release published in local media of the Tanzanian government's failure since 1993 to [...]
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