The prospect that conditions conducive to searching for oil in Somalia are returning has resulted in a variety of initiatives. And this despite the fact that the civil war against the Al Shabaab Islamists has not yet been won, even [.
The head of the European Union External Action Service (EEAS), Catherine Ashton, is scheduled to make a trip around southern [...]
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Weary of having the opposition boycott the elections, President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) promised to introduce a degree of proportional [...]
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The advisors to Prime Minister Raila Odinga want to persuade him to take action so that the elections are held in December 2012 instead of March 2013.
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A number of Al Shabaab militia who left Mogadishu including one, Portuguese man, have been arrested in Somaliland. Another one, the son of a Hargeisa government minister, went back without difficulty.
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Prime Minister Jean Omer Beriziky discreetly supports the United Nations position for joint elections in May or June 2013. Andry Rajoelina does not agree.
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Two leaders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) were in Paris this week to make the French socialist leaders aware of their cause.
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The French defence ministry has invited a number of Somalian dignitaries to its next high level seminar on maritime piracy.
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The United Kingdom is applying pressure on Brussels for the European Union to finance the wages of the Amisom contingent. This could be done using money earmarked for Madagascar.
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The Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC) recently launched in the United States is no counter to the fragmentation of the Ethiopian opposition in exile.
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During his trip to Brussels from 29 June to 3 July, the Malagasy Prime Minister Jean-Omer Beriziky discussed with the [...]
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The construction of a new port in Tadjourah and a railway line from there to Ethiopia has hit against certain problems for a variety of reasons.
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The small British-Kenyan security company Salama Fikira has changed its name to regain its youth.
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The State-owned insurance company Sicom will finally have a new onscreen branding.
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The Malagasy Prime Minister persuaded the European Commission to make some concessions – provided that the elections are held in May or June 2013 in keeping with the wishes of the UN.
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The two energy groups, one Saudi and the other Sudanese, in competition to revive Ma-Mwe, will not keep their respective short term promises.
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The problems of the Nairobi town council will get worse if it does not repay Equity Bank the loan it contracted under the previous Town Clerk, Philip Kisia.
Zynmat, a Kenyan trading group with strong ties to Turkish businesses has just gained a foothold in Maputo by allying with two former government officials.
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The French-Somalian Abshir Sylvain Aden has major political ambitions in his home country and has an influential international network of [...]
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The pastor André Christian Dieudonné Mailhol, who believes he has a mission to head Madagascar from 2013, is not completely [...]
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The computer scientist Jean-Luc Fidy Rajaona, 42, is now running the PVC doors and windows retail company Millennium Industries Madagascar [...]
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There is little likelihood that the businessman Peter Kenneth will take his political ambition through to completion. According to our [...]
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Jules Le Clezio, the head of the mining company Toliara Sands, has given his assistant in charge of land issues, [...]
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The Speaker of the National Assembly, Hamidou Bourhane, whose appointment has been contested by the MPs for many months, ended [...]
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After launching the company Djibouti Air last year in partnership [...]
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The President of the High Authority for the Transition (HAT), [...]
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The MP under the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM, opposition) banner [...]
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. President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) is furious that his [...]
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A bill has been laid before the federal parliament to [...]
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. The prospect of designating a new president in Somalia [...]
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. Prime Minister Raila Odinga may have to pick up [...]
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. Nathalie Rabe, who was minister for communication until May [...]
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A new small company to search for and work natural [...]
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The Swiss raw materials trading company Glencore International, which already [...]
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The Thai company PTT Asia Pacific Mining recently transferred the [...]
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The electric equipment supply company Cometech Industrie has not been [...]
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The electronic publication of the La Sentinelle press group will [...]
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Turkish businessmen in their turn have been won over by [...]
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Jean Raymond Boulle, the head of Boulle Mining Group (BMG), [...]
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The American computer company International Business Machines (IBM) has just [...]
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