Since New Labour came to power and Tony Blair Prime Minister, the Department For International Development (DFID), which he created in 1997, has assumed the role of spearhead of British policy on Africa. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has [.
Subscribers only
A Czech-Somalia Joint Chamber of Commerce has recently been created in Prague at the initiative of the ministry of trade [...]
Subscribers only
The European Parliament (EP) gave its go-ahead on 15 December for the fishing agreement between the European Union (EU) and [...]
Subscribers only
A group of seven American Congressmen, including Tom Tancredo and Dan Burton, wrote to President George W. Bush, on 13 [...]
Subscribers only
The lack of unity in the Ugandan opposition will give President Yoweri Museveni a good chance of getting another term [...]
Subscribers only
Having been elected with a considerable majority, the new President Kikwete has substantial margin of manoeuvre in his choice of new Prime Minister.
Subscribers only
The Zanu-PF convention has increased the power of the Vice President to ready her to take over from President Robert Mugabe.
Subscribers only
The Malagasy minister of labour has had the idea of launching a radio station to inform public and private sector employees about social legislation.
Subscribers only
To restore its image with donors, the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International has just ousted two directors close to Kibaki.
Subscribers only
The rumour that has been doing the rounds in the Malagasy ministry of energy and mining has been confirmed: Rodrigue [...]
Subscribers only
Only a handful of sellers from Madagascar will be present at the precious stones fair in Tucson, Arizona, in February 2006.
Subscribers only
The State Bank of Mauritius could terminate its partnership with the South African Nedbank.
Subscribers only
An Indian company is planning to create a factory for making automobile spare parts in KwazuluNatal.
Subscribers only
The Kenyan businessman Chris Kirubi is slowly but surely metamorphosing into a new media magnate.
Subscribers only
As well as the movement of populations situated on the site of the project, an American firm is confronted with an onslaught by an ecology NGO.
Subscribers only
The authorities of the Union of the Comoros are applying pressure on certain companies in Moroni to pay their taxes.
Subscribers only
The government of Mozambique has awarded exclusive rights to exploit the timber on an area of almost 30,000 hectares for [...]
Subscribers only
The rapidly expanding Kenyan supermarket chain Nakumatt Ltd is to open two subsidiaries in February 2006, in Kampala and Dar [...]
Subscribers only
The Programme for Cooperation with Emerging Markets (PSOM), of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs is providing funding for a [...]
Subscribers only
Criticised in an open letter published last July, Andy Chakrabarti, the head of Rova Energy Corporation Ltd (REC), which has [...]
Subscribers only
At just 46, James Bevan has been at the head of the African department of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office [...]
Subscribers only
The general manager of Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL), Chris House has just yielded his position to his assistant, John [...]
Subscribers only
The Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Alcinda Abreu has just formed a partnership with a businessman to set [...]
Subscribers only
The highly controversial opponent and head of the defunct Ethiopiawinet Radio which broadcast in Amharic in Washington, Mirchaw Sinishaw, has [...]
Subscribers only
The murder of a Madagascan consultant to the United Nations [...]
Subscribers only
The French Senate together with the French employers’ federation Mouvement [...]
Subscribers only
A veteran of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF, opposition), Taha [...]
Subscribers only
The former President of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano has been taken [...]
Subscribers only
The recent retirement of Cardinal Le Armand Razafindratandra has thrown [...]
Subscribers only
According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter in [...]
Subscribers only
The mining company Helio Resource Corp. based in Windhoek (Namibia) [...]
Subscribers only
The governments of the United States and Saudi Arabia have [...]
Subscribers only
The Madagascan Prime Minister has appointed Boris Déchen Seheno to [...]
Subscribers only
The CEO of the press company La Sentinelle is preparing [...]
Subscribers only
The death on 19 December of the Kenyan Asian businessman [...]
Subscribers only