After tightening the screws on the opposition ahead of the 2010 general election (ION 1256), Prime Minister Meles Zenawi now wants to bring to heel any private operators who do not apply his directives to the letter.
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Alain Joyandet, the French Minister of State for Cooperation and [...]
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The African Union (AU) emissary to Madagascar, Ablassé Ouedraogo, would [...]
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Andry Rajoelina, the President of the Haute Autorité de Transition (HAT), is beginning to find the servicemen of the Corps [...]
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The transition ministers are appointing men they can trust to their offices, because they are fully aware that the ministries are packed full of people harping back to the previous regime.
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The Addax and Oryx Group (AOG), whose chairman is Jean-Claude Gandur, already operates in West Africa, Tanzania and Kenya. It [...]
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The Indian-born businessman with Seychelles nationality has just lost his permit to build a tourist resort on the west coast of Mahé.
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Marc Ravalomanana had put a spanner in the works of the Brink's company. The firm is now taking advantage of the change in the country's regime.
The governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), whom certain consider to be the real prime minister, is now completely on his own.
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The ADB is soon going to give budgetary aid to the Seychelles. This comes after many years of conflict over repayment arrears.
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The head of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius has not swallowed the Financial Services Commission’s refusal to allow the sale of 49% of the SEM to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).
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Mialy Rajoelina, the young wife of the President of the Haute Autorité de la Transition (H.A.T), is running the family [...]
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The President of the Haute Autorité de transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina known as TGV has taken on Zaza Ramandimbiarison as [...]
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The recently appointed Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Plutarchos Sakellaris, is to go to Maputo at the [...]
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The former sales manager of Air Madagascar, Roland Ranjatoelina, who is a member of the Leader Fanilo party, is accustomed [...]
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The French Ambassador to the Seychelles, Michel Trétout, will soon [...]
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N’naiti Joaquim Chissano, the son of the former Mozambican President, [...]
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When he attended the FJKM (Protestant) service on 29 March, [...]
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Father Jocelyn Grégoire, the president of the Fédération des Créoles [...]
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The European Union (EU) representative to Madagascar, Jean-Claude Boidin, pointed [...]
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This year Radio Plus– one of the island’s three private [...]
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The political prisoners who were set free by the President [...]
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The negotiations between the Reunion Island entrepreneur Abdul Cadjee and [...]
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the General Manager of Imperial Tobacco in Madagascar, Jean Claude [...]
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The company Financière Océor (part of Groupe Caisse d’Epargne) and [...]
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The Frenchman Bruno Pardigon has been given the task of vetting licence requests from marine security companies wanting to be based in Djibouti.
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Harrison Mwakyembe will have to choose between sitting on a parliamentary committee on energy and the stake he owns in a private company in the sector.
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The government has put a bill before Parliament that would authorise service providers to monitor communications. But the cost makes them reticent.
Raila Odinga and Martha Karua want the head of chief justice Evan Gicheru. They are at the same time trying to oust him and pushing a candidate for his replacement.
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Already highly influential in the National Résistance Movement (NRM, governing party), the Bakiga community is also flourishing in business.
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The special advisor to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Public Organisation and Participation, Abay Tsehaye, has more than one string [...]
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The former Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Development and former chairman of the Democratic Party (DP, the formation created by [...]
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Senator Louis Duvernois sent an email to The Indian Ocean [...]
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The diplomats in the Somalian embassy in Kenya have found [...]
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Some soldiers from the Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) did [...]
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The first stone was laid last week on the site [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank [...]
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The Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) has awarded the contract to [...]
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The American company Maple Indian Ocean Resources (MIOR) has just [...]
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The French businessman from Corsica based in Djibouti, Alain Romani [...]
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After taking an interest in the Tanzania coal mines last [...]
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