Head of state Robert Mugabe has decided not to bother with delicate negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over the coming months. He knows only too well that he'll need somewhat unorthodox financial and political methods if he is to [.
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Canada's new ambassador to Mozambique James C. Wall, who is actually based in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, has just presented [...]
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The former editor of the South African daily Cape Times was named on February first by the cabinet of South [...]
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The director general in the ministry of public enterprises, named in September to this post by minister Jeff Radebe, for [...]
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Chief justice Francis Nyalali retired last week after 23 years of service in that post, and was replaced by Barnabas [...]
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French senator Paul Vergès has been charged with 'tax evasion and the use of forgeries' by the examining judge of [...]
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As Mayotte Island's elected representatives officially signed, along with the secretary of state for overseas territories Jean Jack Queyranne in [...]
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A French national who was once Madagascar's consul in Lyons (France) was detained in Moroni on February 2 and declared [...]
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The very day he was named 'Chevalier de l'Ordre National', the head of Madagascar-state owned television network TVM, Mamy Rafenomanantsoa [...]
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The director general of the state-owned sugar plant Sirama, Rachidy Mohamed, was detained for 48 hours this week following a [...]
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Even as Tanzanian defence minister Edgar Majogo Maokola was meeting [...]
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One of the Khartoum government's southern allies has just announced [...]
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Sudan's central bank, the Bank of Sudan, has withdrawn operating authorization from Safa Credit and Investment Bank, a privately-owned investment [...]
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The head of Banco Comercial Português (BCP, principal shareholder in Banco Internacional de Moçambique) Jardim Gonçalves went to Maputo this [...]
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Official Ethiopian statistics for the period 1998-1999 indicate revenue from exports of khat, a mild hallucinogenic drug, showed the sharpest [...]
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An audit of Tanzania's public finances has revealed a deficit of 70 billion Tanzanian shillings (US$1 = 750 T.shiilings) in [...]
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Passing in review Kenya's trade policy during a meeting in Geneva from January 26 to 28, World Trade Organization officials [...]
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Mauritius Freeport Authority (MFA) is to submit to the finance ministry at the end of February its programme for the [...]
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Denmark's official development aid to Mozambique is to be switched out of the fishery and drinking water supply sectors and [...]
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A sect which practices transcendental meditation, worships 'his holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi', whose adepts include head of state Joaquim Chissano [...]
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A Djibouti government decree has slapped a 20-percent increase on [...]
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United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) is preparing to [...]
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Head of state Didier Ratsiraka took advantage of a trip [...]
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Activities of the London-based employers' federation The Eastern Africa Association (EAA) are beginning to take shape in Uganda. EAA, which [...]
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Mauritian prime minister Navin Ramgoolam arrived in Washington on February first for a lightning visit to try to persuade US [...]
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The Sudanese dossier has become the subject of a veritable slugging match inside the US State Department. Backed by the [...]
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Thierry Saussez, head of the French communication company Image & [...]
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WebLtd, a company based on Mauritius since 1995, has opened [...]
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Van A. Brink, chairman of First International Bank of Grenada [...]
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The group chief executive of Nation Media Group, publisher of [...]
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US president Bill Clinton announced on February 2 that he [...]
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