After forcing a government largely dominated by his own UNDD party on prime minister Norbert Ratsirahonana (ION 721) President Albert Zafy finds himself facing an ever more hostile parliament. Since he was dropped successively by Alain Ramaroson of Forces Vives [.
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The Saudi Arabian tycoon Mohamed Hussein al Amoudi is already Ethiopia's leading investor with 15 companies worth over $200 million [...]
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The International Development Association (IDA), affiliate of the World Bank, is expected this week to grant the Tanzanian government a [...]
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The government has embarked on a major campaign to promote Tanzania in Britain in what seems an effort to compensate [...]
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A group of small air charter companies registered in Kenya and run by Somali owners recently wrote to the European [...]
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The decision to consider sending a "military cooperation" mission to Burundi that was taken at the regional summit meeting in [...]
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Britain will offer Ethiopia assistance for projects worth £6 million in 1996-97 but is to wait until a meeting of [...]
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An opinion poll conducted earlier this year by The Eastern Africa Association (EAA) among its members provides some clear insight [...]
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Victim of a gun attack on July 8 that cost the life of policeman and a sentry at his ministry, [...]
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In a speech on his own radio station that was picked up by the BBC, Mohamed Farah Aideed, leader of [...]
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Last week's announcement by the Southern Sudan Independence Movement's former head, Riek Machar, that the SSIM had recaptured the city [...]
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President Yoweri Museveni confirmed Ms. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe as the [...]
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Following an agreement between the Djibouti authorities and the IMF [...]
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The Eritrean government has inaugurated a work project for the [...]
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World Bank). After helping to handle the World Bank's affairs [...]
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Nearly 10,000 municipal employees staged a demonstration in Nairobi on [...]
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Officials from Yemen and Eritrea met for a working session [...]
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Two French companies, BFC and Dumez, are expected to be [...]
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The Seychelles appeals court has awarded 125,000 rupies ($25,000) in damages and interest to Kathleen Pillay, an opponent of president [...]
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President France Albert René's appointment of his young wife, Sarah René, as member and vice chairman of the board of [...]
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The Portuguese oil company Petrogal and the Mozambique government are set to begin negotiations in September on the marketing of [...]
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The Mauritius government is seeking a partner for Mauritius Telecom, the state-owned company that sees to telecommunications on the island. [...]
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Aged 37, Maria Ramos is the first woman to be named director general of South Africa's finance ministry. She replaced [...]
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The former French ambassador to Equatorial Guinea (1989-1994), Jacques Gazon, is being tipped in some official circles in Madagascar as [...]
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Chief editor of the Mauritius weekly Le Mag, Alain Gordon-Gentil has been on leave for the past month and is [...]
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After he takes part in the Organization of African Unity summit in Cameroon in early July, Mozambican president Jaoquim Chissano [...]
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The private radio station Tropic-FM owned by Sheikh Ali Bacar Kassim, a former member of parliament for the MDP party [...]
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A new power station running on sugar cane waste and [...]
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The Mauritius sugar company Flacq United Estates Limited (FUEL) is [...]
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The Caisse Francaise de Développement (CFD) has just approved a [...]
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The Seychelles president will pay an official two day visit [...]
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President Nelson Mandela was scheduled to arrive in Paris on [...]
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The Paris-based examining magistrate Chantal Perdrix transmitted the case of [...]
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The head of the brokerage Newton Securities could be named [...]
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