It was only at the price of the resignation of Cassam Uteem and Angidi Chettiar from the island's presidency and vice-presidency that the government of Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth this week managed to pass its prevention of terrorism act, drawn [.
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Mauritius's new president
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Mauritius's new vice-president started his professional career as a public assistant officer in 1976 before turning to teaching. Aged 65, [...]
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The minister of women's rights in the office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been named ambassador to the [...]
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A Nairobi lawyer has been chosen by the Boston NGO defending indigenous peoples to carry through a lawsuit, in the [...]
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The first mobile telephone operator to have settled in Tanzania, as early as 1994, Mobitel is considering going before the [...]
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Following the collapse of Continental Wings and the failure to relaunch the national Comores Airlines, a new aeronautical project is [...]
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The contribution of the country's mining sector to its GNP has fallen from 4.5% in 1996 to 3.9% in 2001, [...]
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A sponsor arguing for the presence of international observers in the presidential election of Madagascar in the interest of fairness and harmony, the OAU's secretary general inexplicably seems to see little need for same in Zimbabwe.
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The Asmara visit of an Israeli delegation headed by a government minister illustrates Tel Aviv's diplomatic and commercial rapprochement with Eritrea.
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Worried about the opposition's plans to contest his wielding of power, President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal expulsed an official of the United Nations he judged to be excessively nosey.
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Currently in the World Bank's cash pipeline to Addis Ababa are close to $500 million in credits split among five [...]
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The American firm AES has been working steadfastly to ensure that the Tanzanian authorities retract their decision not to renew the work permit of the Songas firm head, whom they expulsed in December.
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Having been promised a reward by Citibank's insurance company for giving information to recover money lost from a theft in Dar Es Salaam, two informers are threatening to go to court to get their just dues.
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Granting of the management of Maputo's railroad to South Africa's Spoornet company signals the go-ahead signal for the renovation of the Mozambican harbor.
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The practices of Uganda's electoral commission are put into doubt by a confidential report of the Inspector General of Government.
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A Several companies of the Endowment Fund for Rehabilitation of [...]
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Assoumani Azali has put all the chances on his side for the primary of the presidential election that takes place [...]
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After initial signs of hope of an end to the island's political crisis, a week of negotiations has led to a dead end in the negotiations between Madagascar's outgoing president and the mayor of Antananarivo.
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Since the internal crisis of the ruling Tigray People's Liberation Front, the tradition of fund raising for the families of martyrs evokes ever more resentment.
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A brand-new investigation is underway in the effort to probe the circumstances of the strange death of a French judge in Djibouti six years ago.
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This week may see the outcome, tragic or otherwise, of the opposition's resistance to the one-year extension of Mohamed Ibrahim Egal's presidential term.
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Presided by information minister Bereket Simeon, the ruling EPRDF coalition's [...]
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When voting in the presidential election starts on March 9, [...]
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After attending a ministerial summit of the Commission de l'Océan [...]
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The head of the Eritrean coordination commission with the United [...]
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Arrested on February 19 and condemned for outrage on the [...]
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In the wake of its presence in the cell phone [...]
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According to information obtained by Africa Energy Intelligence (Indigo Publications), [...]
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With the support of the South African government, Gauteng province's [...]
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