A small frontier brushfire has degenerated into armed conflict between Eritrean and Ethiopian government army units, pouring oil on a fire that has been smouldering for months between the countries. Whilst negotiations were under way on Eritrean claims to a [.
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In the framework of a vast reshuffle at the head of the Kenyan military hierarchy last week (see "Tonje closes [...]
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After serving a first term as governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Leonard Tsumba has been re-appointed to the [...]
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A new director general has been named for Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Ethiopien (CDE) to take over from Bouh Hussein Omar [...]
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Kenya's December general election has refuelled public debate on "The Big Question": who will succeed head of state Daniel arap [...]
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Several countries of East Africa and the Indian Ocean still owe contribution arrears to the general secretariat of ACP (Africa, [...]
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Somaliland president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal was on an official visit to Addis Ababa last week. The Ethiopian authorities indicated their [...]
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An important reshuffle in the military hierarchy last week has come along to reinforce partisans of professionalization of the Kenyan [...]
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A group of 46 Ethiopian police officers and security operatives are on training courses in the United States. They have [...]
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The Seychelles government will abandon in December the very controversial National Youth Service (NYS) instituted in 1981 after a voyage [...]
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The new round of negotiations between the Sudanese government and a delegation from colonel John Garang's Sudanese People's Liberation Army [...]
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An uneasy calm was floating over Moroni on May 13 after two days of anti-government rioting which saw demonstrators put [...]
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The former minister of justice (and current leader of one [...]
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Archbishop Philippos of the Eritrean Orthodox Church has been appointed [...]
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The executive director of South African Airways (SAA) is expected [...]
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Several public buildings including the Seychelles Supreme Court and the [...]
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The US embassy in Maputo announced on May 13 the [...]
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The Comoros Islands government has rapidly disavowed the terms of [...]
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South African minister of trade and industry (and former Communist trade unionist) Alec Erwin will turn himself into a travelling [...]
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International Monetary Fund deputy director for Africa, Jerry Johnson and Tanzanian finance minister Daniel Yona signed a Letter of Intent [...]
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Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres has taken up the problem of the future of the Portuguese utility Hidroeléctrica de Cabora [...]
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Namibian head of state Sam Nujoma and foreign minister Theo Ben Guirab last week undertook two lightning visits, to Luanda [...]
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The International Monetary Fund mission led by Ms. Lelde Schmitz which was to have gone to Antananarivo at the end [...]
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Saudi Arabian magnate Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi is beginning to feel hedged around in Ethiopia, where he is the principal [...]
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Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris (CCIP) is to organize a seminar on May 29 on the macro-economic situation [...]
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Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) general manager Tesfa Alem Gebre Iyesus hasn't an idea what to do next to interest [...]
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Under this title, the parastatal Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur [...]
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A representative of the French group Grands Magasins Printemps, Bruce [...]
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France's SAUR International has outswum competitors in the Call for [...]
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Following a proposal by European Commissioner (external relations with ACP [...]
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Decontrolling the distribution sector of some petroleum products in Kenya [...]
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