Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is going to work at putting the EPRDF (ruling coalition) into battle order ahead of the general election in 2010. But he has learnt his lesson from the 2005 poll, when his government came within a [.
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No doubt because he is finding it difficult to get [...]
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It’s tough falling into disgrace in Djibouti, because then nothing [...]
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Jean-Marc Châtaigner, the former chief of staff to the Secretary [...]
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While he opens his arms to Italian investors who mount [...]
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Two groups of high-ranking officers have come onto the scene to try and find a political outcome to the crisis [...]
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The Christian churches in Madagascar no longer play centre stage as they did in 2002. The protagonists pay no heed to their calls for reconciliation.
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The President of the Seychelles has just launched a youth organisation that is officially apolitical and open to everybody. It will nevertheless be very useful to him in the 2011 presidential election.
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The foreign diplomats in Moroni are worried by the rise in tension since President Sambi announced his intention of extending his mandate beyond 2010.
The rumour was doing the rounds for the last few days and published in the daily Le Quotidien de la [...]
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At the outcome of delicate negotiations, the Seychelles Fishing Authority (FSA) won extra money from Brussels for undeclared catches in its waters by European trawlers.
William Bourdon is giving nightmares to African presidents holding "ill-gotten gains". And yet this criminal lawyer also has a thriving business law practice.
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The Syrian born Belgian Albert Karaziwan has just been appointed the Comoros Ambassador at Large for the Gulf countries and [...]
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There has been little positive feedback for the scenario for a way out of the crisis that the former Minister [...]
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The current political crisis in Antananarivo has revealed that the Minister for Finance and the Budget, Haja Nirina Razafinjatovo, no [...]
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The son of the late General Sebastiao Mabote, who died [...]
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The director of air transport of Aviation Civile de Madagascar [...]
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The Chambre de commerce franco-comorienne, whose chairman is Saïd Ahamada, [...]
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With the approval of President Marc Ravalomanana, the Malagasy ministry [...]
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Unless there is a last minute upset, Jacob Zuma and [...]
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Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has already taken on [...]
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The temperature is rising in intercommunity relations in Mauritius because [...]
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The executives of the New York based Tanza group, specialised [...]
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When the firm Minsec SA put its mining project on [...]
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The Mauritius-based distilling company Grays & Co, owned by the [...]
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The Chinese company Yuxiao Group Co of Jinan has found [...]
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The Indian company Varun International situated in Mumbai and already [...]
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Jean-Michel Giraud, the director of the largest producer of building [...]
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Two Frenchman have just gone to live in Antsiranana (ex [...]
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The Djibouti authorities are making a great many contacts with Iran in the hope that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit their country.
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The MP Bonny Khalwale did not succeed in getting a censure motion passed against William Ruto. He will try to fare better against Kiraitu Murungi.
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The intense lobbying campaign to designate the new Commissioner of Police before April has called ethnic rivalry into play as much as it has political confrontation.
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Italian companies get special support from President Isaias Afwerki to set up in Eritrea. They can therefore stand up to the Asian onslaught.
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The Insurance Regulatory Authority has not taken any measures against Blue Shield Insurance, which defaulted on some of its clients. The matter is rather delicate since the company is owned by Uhuru Kenyatta’s family.
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The French company Sagem Sécurité is right in the middle of a fierce debate that could lead to a scandal. At stake is a juicy contract for the manufacture of identity cards.
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Since he purchased Prisunic for a nominal price of 1 franc in 1999, subsequently transforming it into the Nougaprix supermarket, [...]
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After two unsuccessful attempts to win the presidential election against President Yoweri Museveni, the leader of Forum For Democratic Change [...]
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Barclays Bank may have decided to close the account of [...]
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The Kenyan mining company Swensson & Simonet Minerals, headed by [...]
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The American Billy E. Wright, currently the Djibouti manager of [...]
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The Turkish businessman Fatih Volkan Kazova, the head of the [...]
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The British company Monitise founded by Alastair Lukies and Steven [...]
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