Like Eskom in the electricity sector, South African rail transport utility Spoornet, a subsidiary of the state-owned Transnet, is weaving a spider's web across the African continent in partnership with SCAC-Delmas Vieljeux (SDV) of the French group Vincent Bolloré.
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ZANU-PF has undertaken backroom manoeuvres to get back the thirty or so party members who had been expelled after deciding [...]
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In a recent report presented to Parliament, the Inspectorate General of Government (IGG) has revealed that only 28 percent of [...]
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The atmosphere wasn't really too joyful during the gala dinner African National Congress (governmental) organized on June 10 to raise [...]
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Madagascar's PTT minister Ny Hasina Andriamanjato is furious with media which implicated him in two recent affairs. One was a [...]
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A Malagasy officer serving in the presidency has been charged with undermining the security of head of state Didier Ratsiraka [...]
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South Africa is to open diplomatic representation in Rwanda and [...]
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The Angolan authorities seem reluctant over the idea that Mozambican [...]
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The long-running competition of Japanese 4x4 vehicles in Ethiopia last month forced US auto sellers to go back to square [...]
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Boycotted by a number of small-scale tea planters, the June 19-26 election of directors of the 45 tea processing plants [...]
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The June 9 choice by government party Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) of the eldest son of Abeid Amaan Karume, the [...]
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Kenya's new High Commissioner to Great Britain, who is also ambassador to Ireland and Switzerland, turned 43 this month. Born [...]
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A senior Portuguese air force officer is to become military attaché in the embassy in Maputo, taking over from marine [...]
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The new director of South Africa's Electrotechnical Export Council (EEC) is a former official of the US computer giant IBM. [...]
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A mission from the World Bank department of energy is due to go to Nairobi next week to spell out [...]
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The top management of Mauritius Telecom (MT) led by board chairman Milan Meetarbhan has been mobilized to stymie formation of [...]
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Rivalry between Rwanda and Uganda is expected to stiffen Rwanda's growing tendency to use the so-called Isaka Corridor, from Kigali [...]
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The World Bank is preparing a huge project known as the Mining Resources Management Project to improve the country's geological [...]
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After a meeting at the end of the February (ION 891) in Washington at the seat of the International Monetary [...]
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The shortage of foreign currency to pay imports has brought [...]
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A bill due for discussion by the US House Committee [...]
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Tension rose another notch this week between Western countries which want to send observers to cover Zimbabwe's general election (June [...]
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The procedures for granting Mozambican nationals Portuguese entry visas has slowed considerably, even for urgent applications. They now require a [...]
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The government in Khartoum has asked the United Nations Security Council to lift the sanctions imposed on their country following [...]
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British property agents Knight Frank, who already have offices in [...]
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The new airline Comores Air International (CAI) which Swiss national [...]
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Lega Dembi mine, near Shakiso and some 250 km south [...]
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The chairman of the Molope group convened a meeting of [...]
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The senator of France's overseas possession Mayotte Island wrote to [...]
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