The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) conference in Midrand on 16 to 19 June will parade a whole new generation of black executives who adhere to populist declarations and are imbibed with predatory culture in business.
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It should not be long before the American owners of Réunibail, a subsidiary of the French branch of the General [...]
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The President of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo, acting at the behest of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, [...]
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United States Africa Command (Africom) is now waiting only for the official request from President Salva Kiir after the South [...]
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Addis Ababa is alarmed by the contacts between Ethiopian opponents and Sudanese officials. Khartoum, for its part, does not appreciate Ethiopian military aid for South Sudan.
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A document purporting to be from the presidency reveals the extent that the Head of State’s team was worried about the outcome of the presidential election in April.
President Yoweri Museveni has given his new minister for security a set of written instructions. The Indian Ocean Newsletter lifts the veil on some of them.
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Well aware of his lack of regular contact with the other Heads of State in the region, Raila Odinga sent a delegation in his name to meet Yoweri Museveni and Jakaya Kikwete.
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The idea that John Githongo could be the new inspector general of police, being mooted by local NGOs, has thrown President Mwai Kibaki’s partisans into a spin.
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The National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) wants to improve its ability to intercept mobile telephone conversations. It therefore entered into [...]
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Kampala wants the oil companies to import their fuel via Dar es Salaam rather than Mombasa. But this path is fraught with problems.
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Groupe Bernard Hayot is well placed to take over the assets of Groupe Caillé in Mayotte. But other candidates are also at the starting blocks.
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The officers who work for a construction company linked to the defence ministry will have to leave this job if they want to stay in the army.
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Martha Karua, who is fully intending to run in the presidential election in 2012, will try to win votes from [...]
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In early July, the company secretary of East Africa Breweries (EABL), Agnes Murgor, will be the eighth executive to leave [...]
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Reverend Mutava Musyimi has been an MP under the PNU (President Mwai Kibaki’s party) banner since 2008, but is now [...]
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The head of the French economic mission in Kenya and [...]
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The Dutch former minister for development aid, Agnes van Ardenne, [...]
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The three former ministers, Yacin Elmi Bouh, Abdi Ibrahim Absieh [...]
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When they arrived for a press conference organised at the [...]
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The elderly leader of the legal opposition, Hailu Shawel, was [...]
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The Canadian Trevor Lee Oseen is a keen marathon runner. [...]
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The board of the engineering company operating in several different [...]
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The Somalian airline Jubba Airways, headed by Abdillahi Warsame and [...]
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The businessman Mohamed Saïd Guedi (MSG) has purchased the old [...]
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. The South Korean public property developer LH Corporation inked [...]
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The company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in [...]
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The leader of the parliamentary opposition decided to leave the leadership of his party, the SNP following his defeat in the presidential election on 21 May.
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Led by Jacob Zuma, the SADC countries want Ravalomanana to go to Madagasdar before the elections.
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Local hotel owners are irritated by water shortages, poor security and competition from foreign house-owners.
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The editor of L’Express Raj Meetharban has rebelled against J-C de L’Estrac, with whom he is in disagreement.
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John William Kachamila created two new companies in Maputo jointly with a Chinese construction company.
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Ibrahim Mzé can no longer play the public prosecutor about the way Comores Telecom is run. He is now himself one of the accused.
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The former Comorian foreign relations minister, Fahmi Said Ibrahim, sent us an email on 13 June in response to our [...]
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The architect Mamy Rajaobelina is a man who likes to think ahead: the date of the next local elections has [...]
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The International Crisis Group (ICG) has lost a number of [...]
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After imposing a fixed retail price for oil products, the [...]
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The managing partner of Ernst & Young in Madagascar, Yann [...]
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The boom in mining activity in Mozambique is beginning to [...]
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Edouard Jaquemet, The export director of the firm Sterling Fluid [...]
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After the negotiations with British American Investment (BAI) fell through, [...]
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