Just about a year from Madagascar's presidential election, the country's political scene is looking more and more like that in 1991, prior to the overthrow of a regime, then as today, led by head of state Didier Ratsiraka.
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A member of deputy prime minister Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) party is being tipped as chairman of Sicom, [...]
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In the framework of the Kenyan government's efforts to slash corruption within National Social Security Fund (NSSF), a representative from [...]
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European Commissioner Poul Nielson on October 3 began a fresh tour of the Horn of Africa to collect firsthand information [...]
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The World Bank's new director for Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland knows southern Africa well. Fayez Omar is [...]
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Western fund donors are slowly coming round to adopting much tougher follow-through methods for financing they supply to Kenyan NGOs. [...]
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Swiss examining magistrate Marc Tappolet is expected to fly to Port Louis as soon as the Mauritian authorities have responded [...]
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The Ugandan government intends to embark on a more commercial foreign policy by training its diplomats in this direction. Each [...]
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At the end of a conference held in Asmara from September 16 to 20, six Ethiopian Oromo opponents' organizations set [...]
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The African National Congress national executive council (NEC) on October 4 gave unconditional backing to the position defended by president [...]
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Leonard H. Robinson Jnr, chairman and managing director of The [...]
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Saudi-Ethiopian millionaire Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi got married in Washington [...]
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As the gold mines in Zimbabwe know grave difficulties (three of them closed this year and First Quantum Minerals has [...]
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According to a report for the September meeting of economy and finance ministers of franc zone countries, the Comoros’ vanilla [...]
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According to information recovered by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Madagascar's transport and meteorology minister, colonel Charles Rasolonay, and the director [...]
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Trade tension between Djibouti and Ethiopia rose in recent weeks after a small incident turned out to be the proverbial [...]
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The company ZakSat of Dubai on October 4 had the Seychelles supreme court recognize its majority participation in Global Direct, [...]
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An NGO is suing one of the Dar es Salaam branches of Cooperative and Rural Development Bank (CRDB) for one [...]
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Although Madagascar only appears on the supplementary list of countries that might be accepted next year for inclusion in the [...]
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A breakdown of Comoran exports by geographical region in first-half [...]
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The Swiss charity La Chaine du Bonheur (The Chain of [...]
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The European Union will envisage allocating 15 million euro for [...]
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The Mozambican authorities are not stopping with just one lobbyist in Washington, Bruce Cameron, whose six-month contract last year brought [...]
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After a manic visit to the United States, particularly in the city of Los Angeles where demonstrations by Ethiopian opponents [...]
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The Netherlands government is hesitating to authorize a contingent of 700 Dutch infantry soldiers to join 4,200 other military making [...]
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Groupe Bourbon pre-tax profits for first-half 2000 are not good. [...]
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Seychelles National Oil Co (SNOC) is still trying to interest [...]
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After the failed rehabilitation of the Comoros' Ylang hotel by [...]
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The Vancouver (Canada) based mining company Uganda Gold Mining Ltd, [...]
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More than four years after leaving Air Mauritius, its former [...]
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The Eritrean head of state arrived in Khartoum on October [...]
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