Since the beginning of the year, the Comoros have been under the surveillance of a programme signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This is a one year programme whose "road map" was ceremoniously handed to the Finance Minister, Amadi [.
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The green light given by the government of the Walloon region for the firm New Lachaussée to install a munitions [...]
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President Marc Ravalomanana wants the summit of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), to be held in Madagascar on 22 and [...]
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Facing a spate of suicides (500 in 2004) by over-indebted peasants, the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh has for some [...]
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According to information received by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from an official of a human rights defence organisation in Nairobi, [...]
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Before the recent burst of political violence in Zanzibar, the principal opposition party had predicted attempts at intimidation by government partisans.
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The choice of which candidate to support as Director General of the WTO has put the government in Antananarivo in an awkward position.
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After the death of the former South African president's son from AIDS, his daughter could now be sick.
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Without waiting for IGAD's final decision, the Ugandan army is already preparing 800 men to take part in a peace-keeping force in Somalia.
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Several private sector organisations are to renew their executive directors in March
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A decree waiving certain taxes for telemarketing firms has stimulated several budding call centre projects.
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The brother of a former tourism minister has been entrusted to attract investors to the pilot sites of the future integrated growth poles.
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The Djibouti government has just rescinded the concession awarded to the firm Midroc, owned by the Saudi-Ethiopian magnate Mohamed Hussein [...]
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More Kenyan companies, besides those specialised in tea, are looking towards Sudan since the signing of the peace agreement.
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The announcement by President James Michel of his intention to privatise several State firms has already aroused interest from surprising quarters.
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A Malaysian company is to take over from another Malaysian company as the main shareholder in Independent Power Tanzania (IPTL), [...]
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Two new mining companies were created in London last month and at the beginning of March filed to go on [...]
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The Israeli company Skyvision Global Networks Ltd has just won its first contract in Mozambique. This contract, funded by the [...]
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The firm Azel Pharmaceutical Plant, set up in Eritrea last year, has the ambition of supplying medicines not only for [...]
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The new Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Diogo Freitas do Amaral is an independent Christian democrat but is not a [...]
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Bernard Garancher, the former representative of France in Pristina (Kosovo) is expected to replace Jean-Bernard Thiant as ambassador to Uganda. [...]
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Since the beginning of the month, the Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce (AACC) has a woman Semunesh Demetros as its [...]
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Freddy Mahazoasy, brother of former tourist minister, Roger Mahazoasy, who was entrusted to attract investors to the pilot sites of [...]
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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Since the beginning of March, John Rumet Kaputin, 64, from [...]
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The International Financial Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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While the political executive of Frelimo, the governing party in [...]
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Whereas the recently deceased Daoud Chehem Daoud, had been one [...]
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The Seychelles National Party (SNP) MP for the Bel Air [...]
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Finally it was the firm CMM Automobiles, subsidiary of the [...]
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The group Johnnic Holding (media, leisure, entertainment) has just appointed [...]
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The Indian company, Jaisu Shipping Company Pvt Ltd, is going [...]
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The director general of Secren (ship repairs), Hilaire Solohery and [...]
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The new Portuguese Minister of Defence, Luis Amado, is well [...]
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The Ethiopian top model Liya Kebede has been appointed goodwill [...]
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Enrico Geraldo De Maio, the new ambassador of Italy, presented [...]
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Phil Mjwara, the director of the National Laser Centre (NLC) [...]
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