Few members of the opposition can eclipse President Marc Ravalomanana, whose regime is thoroughly bolted. And yet, a fault appeared during the local elections in December, when a potential rival won the post of mayor of Antananarivo.
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Shamir Kamoula was released on bail on 25 January after [...]
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President Jakaya Kikwete will be the guest of honour at [...]
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The South African government has just announced the appointment of [...]
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According to the count carried out by the web site [...]
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A group of Ethiopian opponents in exile close to Berhanu [...]
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A good many African potentates will be jealous of President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh who has just reinvented the poll with [...]
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The split has been consummated between the Al-Shabaab group and the partisans of the old Islamic Courts who joined the opposition alliance based in Asmara.
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One of the Prime Minister's advisors who was vehement last year against the regime's opponents, has been very discreet since then.
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Several members of the staff of former President Ratsiraka’s Prime Minister now have choice positions in Ravalomanana’s regime.
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Three ministers and two of President Kibaki’s advisors have made a point of scuppering the various attempts at mediation to solve the post-election conflict.
The minister of education wants to depoliticize the administration. This has put him into an awkward position with certain members of the presidential party.
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A serious conflict has pitted the President of the Union against his Vice President over the last few weeks.
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The EmergentAsset Management (EAML), a British company whose shareholders include the Toronto Dominion Bank, is to launch a new investment [...]
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A foundation is to mount complex financial machinery to help fund an Ethiopian hydro-electric dam.
After the troubles of the main motor insurance company, United Assurance, it is now Directline Insurance’s turn to go into cold sweat.
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The firm by Chris Kirubi has raised the level of its stake in a firm owned by the former Minister Simeon Nyachae.
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The probable nomination of Ashvin Ramdin to the post of Executive Vice President of Air Mauritius is being contested even before it has become official.
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The government has ordered the largest hotel in the islands to close its doors at the end of the month.
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The government organism has just won one of the arbitration procedures in the dispute that has pitted it against the British company for many years.
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The new general manager of the Malagasy national police force, on post since 5 January, is a staunch ally of [...]
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The President of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, was invited on 5 January by the South African Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nkosazama [...]
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The arrest in Kenya on 27 December of Hakeem Asiimwe Lukenge, a Ugandan who in the past has worked for [...]
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The Djibouti government has just attributed a plot of land at PK 20 to the Seedorf Champions Academy to set [...]
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Maryse Berlouis, the wife of the former Minister for Defence Ogilvy Berlouis, has been appointed CEO of the Seychelles Health [...]
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s wife has in her turn called [...]
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The Mozambican Minister for fisheries, Cadmiel Filiane Mutemba, wrote to [...]
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The authorities have found another way of applying pressure on [...]
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The new executive director of the Save Darfur Coalition in [...]
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The Portuguese former First Lady is to publish a book [...]
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President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi appeared satisfied with the logistic preparations [...]
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is about to go back on [...]
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The Lebanese Catholic businessman Marcel Abi Chedid, the Honorary Consul [...]
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( ) This international law firm has sewn up part [...]
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( ) an old trade dispute between the Kenyan subsidiary [...]
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( ) the Swedish company which is planning to sink [...]
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The Egyptian firm Asek Co for Mining (Ascom), a subsidiary [...]
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An Indian company specialised in mining is currently prospecting the [...]
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This Australian junior has just created a new mining exploration [...]
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( ) The government in Dar es Salaam may decide [...]
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( ) The company owned by the former Mozambican President [...]
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The Canadian mining company IBI Corp is in a legal [...]
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( ) The London branch of this firm of chartered [...]
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