On the eve of the forthcoming presidential election on 8 April, boycotted by the opposition and so he will be the sole candidate, President Ismaël Omar Guelleh's touchiness has become increasingly apparent. Already, a few months ago (ION 1120) he [.
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The Madagascan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcel Ranjeva and his counterpart at Economy and Finance, Radavidson Andriamparany, asked the European [...]
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The Order of Mohéli has come to the surface again. The event took place in Paris at the end of February, in the presence of a number of French dignitaries...
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Berhane Gebremedhin, an American businessman native of Eritrea, who is in dispute with the Ethiopian government, has decidedly long arms [...]
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The Madagascan bible society is organising a conference in Antananarivo on 14 April on the Biblical principles of financial management.
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The Prime Minister of Mauritius has expressed his concerns to the President of the Seychelles about a project for a luxury cruise in the Chagos Islands organised by a British operator from Port Victoria.
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In the run up to the election in May, the political discussion between the government and the opposition is getting strained.
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Zanu-PF will have to face up to opposition and dissidents standing as independent candidates in the legislative elections on 31 March.
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One of the Madagascan President's nieces rules the Malagasy mutual assurance with a rod of iron.
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A bill that would allow KenGen to sell electricity to the consumer has caused a split in Mwai Kibaki's government.
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The government in Dar es Salaam has waited until the last minute before changing the rules for the call for tenders to privatise the railways.
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The Ugandan civil aviation has drawn up a report asking the government to support the revival of a national airline.
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The Kenyan supermarket chain Uchumi has not succeeded in finding a foreign strategic partner to invest in the company, which [...]
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Leo Africa, the African subsidiary of Leo Burnett, won the contract for Western Union's significant advertising budget on 16 March. [...]
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The future of the management of the Cahora Bassa hydro-electric dam owned by Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB, majority Portuguese [...]
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The process to privatise the Djibouti-Ehiopia railway, (CDE), should be significantly accelerated in the coming months (ION 1114). At the [...]
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Vijay Poonoosamy has just been obliged to leave his post at the head of this State company following his conflict with its head of operations.
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The first public conference of Reunion Island's economic intelligence centre did not convince its audience of businessmen.
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If the Labour Party (LP) wins the legislative elections that will probably be held in the United Kingdom in the [...]
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The new Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Development, Joao Gomes Cravinho, 40, is an academic. He [...]
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The present ambassador of Slovakia to South Africa is this country's first diplomat to be accredited in Antananarivo. Drawing up [...]
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The Nigerian ambassador to Mozambique has just been appointed ambassador to Antananarivo resident in Maputo. Born on 28 March 1952 [...]
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Two representatives of Mayotte and Reunion Island have just been [...]
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Ubifrance, the organisation for the promotion of French exports, is [...]
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The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan should [...]
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Mamod Taky, the Indo-Pakistani businessman expelled from Antananarivo and who [...]
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The Grand Master of the Freemasons Grande Loge de France [...]
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The fortnightly African satirical magazine published in Paris, Le Gri [...]
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Following the violent events these last few weeks in the [...]
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The United Arab Emirates firm Aggreko International Power Projects Ltd, [...]
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The Central African Mining and Exploration Company (Camec) has just [...]
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The employees of the airline Air Seychelles have called the [...]
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A former minister of health (1997-2002) during the government of [...]
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The Seychelles National Assembly has recently approved the appointment of [...]
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A number of Ethiopians of Tigray origin living in the [...]
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The South African company Telkom has designated a team of [...]
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