Head of state Joaquim Chissano executed a delicate exercise in political tightrope walking this week when he designated a new government composed entirely of FRELIMO government party members. He had earlier formally excluded the idea of offering ministerial portfolios to [.
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On April 11, Ms. Luisa Dias Diogo will celebrate 42 years as Mozambique's minister of finance, the post to which [...]
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Although theoretically under the minister for intelligence Joe Nhlanhla since his nomination as director general of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) [...]
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Zimbabwe's international civil servant who has a job-share as vice-chairman of the Bank's Africa Region with French national Jean Louis [...]
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The Comoros authorities have given French national Daniel Montalban, the manager and principal shareholder of Madagascar's PMU (a pari-mutuel betting [...]
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State Bank of Mauritius (SBM Ltd), the second bank in the country with a turnover of more than 25 billion [...]
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State Investment Corporation chaired by Rajiv Beeharry is to chop up a plot of 117 arpents (about as many acres, [...]
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An advance on expenses of about US$5,000 that energy ministry principal secretary Patrick Rutahazibwa took when he was to accompany [...]
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The World Bank vice chairman for Africa Region Callisto Madavo was in Nairobi this week to meet head of state [...]
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Shooting at Kakirongo (Kasese District) on January 6 between two groups of Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF, Ugandan army) military [...]
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After having heard the viewpoint of representatives of Mozambican communities abroad, head of state Joaquim Chissano is believed to have [...]
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After International Democratic Union, a federation of conservative parties (ION 886), now it's the turn of RENAMO's ex-allies who served [...]
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The expression which has come into fashion to describe the [...]
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The Ethiopian government's decision to impose compulsorily a new language [...]
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The Comoros president, colonel Assumani Azzali, carried out a slight [...]
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The Malagasy national assembly's major overspending of its budget allowance has forced head of state Didier Ratsiraka to order an [...]
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In a recent telex message to the Comoros authorities, the World Bank acknowledged the country's repayment of arrears due to [...]
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A joint mission of representatives of the delegations of the European Union in Nairobi and Addis Ababa has just gone [...]
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Since the beginning of the month, a motor fuel shortage has been strangling Zimbabwe's motorists, farmers, businessmen, leaving them to [...]
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Negotiations between the Malagasy government and the World Bank over a reform of the system of attributing prawn fishing licences [...]
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French firms are still trying to get established in Sudan [...]
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After Placer Dome in gold and Southern Era in diamonds, [...]
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Since anti-American terrorist attacks in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998, the American authorities are seeking to make [...]
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Ministers of the 21 member-countries of Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) are scheduled to hold their first [...]
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The Sudan dossier is again at the centre of bitter debate within the US State Department. This time it is [...]
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France's secretary of state for overseas territories announced on January [...]
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Although he was planning to spend very little time in [...]
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Groupe d'Initiative pour le Redressement du Mouvement Anjouanais (GIRMA), which [...]
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The former energy and mines minister whose administration had been [...]
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South Africa's Africa Life Insurance is to take up a [...]
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Strangely, Financiere d'Investissements ARO (FIARO), created on Madagascar in 1989 [...]
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Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB), which already has a majority holding [...]
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The British firm Regional Services Ltd has won a lawsuit [...]
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