Mohammed Yusef, the chairman of the London based company Invicta Capital and well-known for his expertise in investing in successful films, has been taking an interest in his country of origin, Somaliland, for a number of years.
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter in Port Louis, the firm CIM Financial Services, a subsidiary of [...]
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By the end of the afternoon of 21 June, none of the imprisoned opponents to the regime had yet signed [...]
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The newly re-elected President of the autonomous island of Anjouan Mohamed Bacar has just appointed his new government as if [...]
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Mohamed Abdoulwahab, the candidate backed by the President of Union, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, is well placed to carry off the [...]
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President Marc Ravalomanana is in favour of starting direct flights between Antananarivo and Guangzhou, the Chinese town where many Madagascan [...]
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The Eastern Africa Association (EAA), whose members comprise the main foreign companies operating in East Africa, has just completed its [...]
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As he goes into his second mandate, President Marc Ravalomanana has decided to completely revamp the presidential services. The post [...]
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The task of selecting candidates for the posts of secretary general for the various Malagasy ministries went to Dean Williams, [...]
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Since 2006 the chairman of the Association Karana Malagasy (Akama) is Shelly Oukabay, a lady from the small local Hindu [...]
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After the membership card of the Lyons Club or of the Rotary, joining a Masonic Lodge has now become a [...]
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Many businessmen and women born in the 1970s have started to carve their niche in Antananarivo. Johanne Rasamoely, 32, runs [...]
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The rich resources in the ground in Madagascar have attracted large international companies and also a few well-connected local businessmen. [...]
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Lalao Rakotonirainy and her husband Marc Ravalomanana have managed to [...]
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Hanitra Ramahavalisoa, 42, is the new chief of staff of [...]
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Ivohasina Razafimahefa, 45, is in charge of the presidency’s economics [...]
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The new governor of the Banque Centrale (BCM) is one [...]
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The new secretary general of the ministry of communication, culture [...]
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The discreet Speaker of the Senate is one of President [...]
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Lydia Boarlaza née Rafidinarivo has been the executive director of [...]
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Hery Ranaivosoa, the general manager of Madprint print works and [...]
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Frédéric Rabesahala, the head of the new Madagascan airline ATTR, [...]
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Interior Minister under Jacques Sylla's government, Charles Rabemananjara became Prime [...]
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Minister for agriculture under the previous government, Harison Randriarimanana inherited [...]
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Removed last year from the national assembly, Jean Lahiniriko is [...]
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After his third failure to win the presidency in December [...]
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Nephew of ex-president Didier Ratsiraka, and husband to ex-minister’s daughter [...]
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The future of the Madagascan Minister for Foreign Affairs has [...]
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The outcome of the first round of voting in the presidential election in Ngazidja reversed the trend of the preliminary counting of votes.
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Le Mauricien is looking for new shareholders to help it get over its finanical difficulties.
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The brother of the minister for foreign affairs is in no hurry to go back to Antananarivo, where he is involved in an affair of misappropriation of funds.
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The high tech scanner installed by China in the port of Mauritius in 2005 broke down at the end of [...]
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The Court decision condemning BIC to pay several million euros to a local firm, recently confirmed on appeal, has put this bank's director general in a delicate position.
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The two latest projects planned by the CEO of the Mon Loisir group are a bank and a fund to invest in Africa.
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Foreign firms are beginning to withdraw from companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.
The Portuguese electrical engineering company’s Mozambican subsidiary has good contacts in the government in Maputo.
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President Ravalomanana is not at all worried about mixing genres. He is about to inaugurate one of his Tiko group's new companies in Toamasina.
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The American government has just given its agreement for the accreditation of Mohamed Toihiri as Ambassador of the Union of [...]
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The new general secretary of the ministry of energy, Andriamiarinarivo Rajaonarison is somebody well known to the international donors, particularly [...]
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Three Frenchmen went to Moroni from 7 to 14 June [...]
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The managing director of the Mozambican company SAL Consultoria e [...]
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Now that the contract between Société Générale des Services (SGS) [...]
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Lieutenant-colonel Fidèle Rasolofo, head of the Malagasy gendarmerie’s international relations [...]
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The candidates for chairman of the Constitutional Appointments Authority (CCA, [...]
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Bailey Partridge, the Vice President Marketing of this American telecoms [...]
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The acquisition of Radio et télévision Analamanga (RTA) by Edgard [...]
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The Galawa Beach tourist resort in Ngazidja will finally be [...]
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The split last month of the assets of late President Hassan Gouled Aptidon among his inheritors, consisting of just one [...]
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We do the rounds of the advisors, whether official or not, whose opinions are heeded by the Ugandan President.
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The Islamist opponent takes a devilish delight in systematically wrong-footing the government of Khartoum.
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The millennium committee preparing the 11 September festivities has been taken under the wing of the TPLF.
Several directors of the Kenya Power & Lighting Co, including one who wants to stand for Parliament, risk being at the heart of a new scandal.
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A Tanzanian company has asked the courts to put Independent Power Tanzania into receivership in order to protect the interests of its shareholders.
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The Save Darfur Coalition (SDC), a coalition of 150 groups in the United States combating the massacres of the population [...]
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The new American chargé d'affaires in Khartoum is a seasoned diplomat who speaks fluent Arabic. Alberto M. Fernandez was born [...]
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The designation of Yvonne Khamati as Kenyan deputy representative to the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa was the outcome [...]
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The son of a white South African physicist living in the United States, Mark Green 47, has just been designated [...]
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President Ismaël Omar Guelleh went discreetly on a private visit [...]
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The interview of a leader of the governing party broadcast [...]
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Since the head of the Mungiki sect, John Maina Njenga [...]
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The company Horn of Africa Investment Brokers (HOAIB) was created [...]
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Two large studies have just begun concerning Kenya Power & [...]
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The firm Oryx Oil & Gas sent a letter on [...]
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This South African company is negotiating a contract with the [...]
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The consulting contract for the Nile Basin Power Forum project [...]
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