Anxious about United States backing for the coalition of the governments of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda which support the National Democratic Alliance (Sudanese opposition) preparations for a military offensive against the regime of Khartoum, Egypt has just operated a tactical [.
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Official results of Kenya's general election of December 29 and 30 published this week give a very narrow majority to [...]
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Ethiopian-Saudi millionaire Mohamed Al Amoudi, who owns the holding company Midroc and is Ethiopia's leading foreign investor, is brushing up [...]
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The public prosecutor of Pemba (Cabo Delgado Province), Anastagio Muhelole, died in mysterious circumstances on December 24 and was buried [...]
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Preparing to face up to all possible degradation of the situation in Djibouti, notably in the perspective of a presidential [...]
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Head of state Didier Ratsiraka was due to announce, late this week, the date for the constitutional referendum. It is [...]
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The Ugandan government has recently been closing down a number of Sudanese NGOs which are suspected of having assisted Ugandan [...]
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The secretary general of Organization of African Unity's cabinet director, Said Djinit, made a working visit to the Comoros Islands [...]
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Head of state Yoweri Museveni proceeded on January 4 with a reorganization of Uganda's military high command, relieving Uganda People's [...]
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Former army chief of staff general Chefe Ali (see "Shifting [...]
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The national chairman of MCDM resigned his position as adviser [...]
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Head of state Robert Mugabe has named a new director [...]
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Mohamed Hussein Abdullahi, an official of one faction of Somali [...]
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Samuel Kivuitu, chairman of Kenya's national electoral commission, has blamed [...]
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Police prevented Civic United Front (opposition) officials holding a meeting [...]
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The Mozambican government may remove the board directors of Hidroélectrica de Cabora Bassa (HCB) who are Mozambican nationals in a [...]
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Coming in sixth place of US exports to Sub-Sahara Africa, the sale by the United States of used clothing to [...]
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After having developed its transshipment activity with the other islands of the region (particularly with Madagascar) and the countries of [...]
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Mechanical breakdown has halted Tamatave refinery, owned by the state company Solima, for a bit more than a week. In [...]
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Madagascar's Service Central des Stupéfiants (SCS) has evaluated last year production of rongony (Malagasy marijuana) at one thousand tons, compared [...]
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The government in Moroni took delivery, at end-December, of four secondhand electricity generators which have been given by Kuwait. It [...]
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The European Union is to finance to a level of 2.5 million ecus drawn on the 8th European Development Fund [...]
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If a study by consultants Coopers and Lybrand Ltd is to be believed, it will be very difficult to recover [...]
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The Eritrean government has decided to slash port fees in [...]
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The government in Djibouti awarded several prospecting and exploitation permits [...]
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The European Union has authorized a contribution of 8.9 million [...]
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Uganda's new army commander, major general Jeje Abubaker Odongo, is an Iteso from the eastern part of the country (see [...]
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It is a diplomat of experience, who was since last year head of the Chinese Centre for South African Studies [...]
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The former agriculture minister in the government of ex-prime minister Anerood Jugnauth, Kailash Ruhee, has been named secretary general of [...]
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A former journalist and trade unionist who was a militant member of Azanian People's Organization (Azapo, a radical movement inspired [...]
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