One year after being elected, the President of the Republic and head of Frelimo (ruling party) Armando Guebuza has all the cards in his hand to press on the accelerator pedal on the route to setting up his cherished plan [.
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The Afican Union (AU) is to send a team to Darfur to evaluate the needs for funding and equipment of [...]
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The new Malagasy minister of commerce was only in his country for a short time after he was appointed to [...]
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The Ethiopian Diaspora in Europe and the United States is generally in support of the positions of the Ethiopian opposition. [...]
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The new government team President Mwai Kibaki appointed on 7 December is likely to do little to calm the political [...]
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Even before the President sacked the whole Kenyan government, the office of ethics and governance, once headed by John Githongo, had been discreetly dismantled.
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The government party finally accepted this week the election of three opposition candidates to the head of Parliament in Hargeisa.
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As election time is drawing close, the government has adopted a number of measures likely to put the government in a more appealing light to the electorate.
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The minister of communication wanted to personally verify the independence of the promoter of budding new private radio station.
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The plan to restructure the shareholding of Tourist Promotion Services Limited (TPS Ltd) which operates the Serena hotels in Kenya, [...]
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A consortium of Irish businessmen has made a failed attempt to take control of the Mauritian group Harel Mallac.
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An interdepartmental committee is to be set up in the near future to fight against tax fraud through the working of precious stones in the south of the country.
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The former minister of transport has just bought a failed pharmaceuticals company and is opening a Shell petrol station in its premises.
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The Dutch government is subsidising a project to set up a plant to assemble Fiat 131s by an Ethiopian-Dutch consortium.
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The Head of State has just revoked a concession for a plot land attributed to the Djibouti chamber of commerce and handed it to a Saudi.
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The Kuwaiti mobile operator MTC, which acquired Celtel at the beginning of the year, is planning to acquire Madacom à Antananarivo.
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The presidential hospitality villas will be managed by the French group Accor during the African Union (AU) and Arab summits [...]
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The need for offshore capital pushes firms based in South Africa but with interests in Zimbabwe to turn to the [...]
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The award of a contract to the firm Kudumba Ltd on 24 October has left the other contenders flabbergasted. This [...]
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The president of the brand new court of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Luis Mondlane, is a Mozambican legal [...]
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The chief of staff to the chairman of the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de la Réunion (CCIR) Eric Magamootoo [...]
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During his ministerial reshuffle this week, President Mwai Kibaki promoted his former Minister of Information, Rafael Tuju, to the post [...]
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One of the newcomers in the new government of President Mwai Kibaki is Mutahi Kagwe. An MP since 2002, he [...]
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The United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) is continuing [...]
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The World Bank is planning to attribute a credit line [...]
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A research unit on the Indian Ocean, the Observatoire géopolitique [...]
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The appearance before the Paris court last month of the [...]
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The Speaker of the Seychelles National Assembly, Francis MacGregor, intervened [...]
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Having been recently abandoned by its South African partner Implats [...]
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The firm Shanta Gold has designated Chris Picken as the [...]
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The Petroleum India International (PII) consortium has just got a [...]
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The West Nile Rural Electrification Company (Wenreco), a subsidiary of [...]
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The Belgian ambassador to Nairobi has just presented her credentials [...]
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The elderly Cardinal Armand Gaétan Razafindratandra was replaced this week [...]
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The new ambassador of Mauritius to Pretoria presented his credentials [...]
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President Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir this week issued a decree [...]
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