The confrontation between head of state Albert Zafy and his prime minister Francisque Ravony (ION N° 676) is bringing old "affairs" back into public view and implicating some of the two men's close collaborators. Zafy's opponents were the first to [.
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Kenya's delegations to the international fund donors conference in Paris last week (ION N° 684) presented the Kenya Power and [...]
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Mauritian tourism, industry and technology minister Xavier Luc Duval headed a trade mission to Kenya and Zimbabwe last week and [...]
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Visiting Madagascar last week, the World Bank's newly appointed head of its Central Africa and Indian Ocean department, Andrew Rogerson, [...]
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Ethiopia's mining and energy ministry and Bill Boberg, vice president of Canyon Resources Africa Ltd, signed an agreement last week [...]
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Wolde Guiorguis, the general manager of Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Ethiopien (CDE), and François Rivière, head of the Djibouti regional office [...]
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A report published at end-August by Organisation Patronale des Comores (OPACO, the Comoros employers' federation) has pronounced an extremely severe [...]
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France's state-owned Bureau de Recherche Géolo-giques et Minières is to submit to a September 19-20 meeting of interested international fund [...]
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Continued growth in violent crime has developed into a major problem for South African companies. A car is stolen every [...]
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Head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon took advantage of his [...]
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Italian flag carrier Alitalia is scheduled to inaugurate its Rome-Asmara [...]
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An agreement signed in Maputo last week covered British financing [...]
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Head of state Said Mohamed Djohar called the government and the national committee of the government party Rassemblement pour la [...]
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The proposal put up by head of state Joaquim Chissano for his country to seek membership of the Commonwealth has [...]
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The arm-wrestling match with the government begun last week by Union Générale des Travailleurs Djiboutiens and Union Djiboutienne du Travail, [...]
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South African executive deputy president Thabo Mbeki is expected to carry out his first official visit to France from October [...]
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The capture of Oraba, a small town on northern Uganda's frontier with Sudan, on September 3 by Ugandan rebels of [...]
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Al Mesh chairman (and shareholder) Meshesha Betemariam was arrested on unspecified charges on his return from a business trip to [...]
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The 17th session of the Inter-State Defence and Security Committee (ISDSC), meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, on September 7 [...]
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The Seychelles' United Opposition party held its first convention on September 10 and elected the party's sole MP, Rev. Wavel [...]
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The Sudanese government piled up more problems this week. As [...]
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Tanzania's National Electoral Commission on September 8 validated the two [...]
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Unidentified armed militiamen assassinated six imams on September 12 south [...]
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A member of the Conseil Economique et Social through his status as a French national living abroad, Jacqui Lucien Marlin [...]
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A young woman of 35 has succeeded in throwing a spanner in the well-oiled wheels of Zimbabwe's powerful ZANU-PF government [...]
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Ethiopian head of state Negasso Gidada, who was elected by the federal assembly on August 22 (ION N° 683), is [...]
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Air France's new Nairobi-based regional delegate for East Africa, Michel [...]
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The head of the American Bar Association's Office of International [...]
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The Australian foreign minister will be the guest of honour [...]
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Britain's minister for overseas development, baroness Chalker of Wallasey, began [...]
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