Tax exemptions the Djibouti authorities so generously dished out to attract foreign investors are already annoying companies on the spot (such as France's Total, whose Djibouti subsidiary is facing setbacks) and they won't be slow in coming forward to complain.
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The financial markets department of Belgolaise, a subsidiary of the Belgian-Dutch group Fortis, is to trade in Kenya shillings. The [...]
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Banque de la Solidarité Malgache (BSM) board chairman ex-prime minister Pascal Rakotomavo has been negotiating in Paris since March 5 [...]
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After losing 460 million shillings (US$1 = 73.5 shillings) worth of advances made to tobacco producers which were not repaid [...]
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The family of the late Comoro Islands president Ahmed Abdallah owns land on the French possession of Mayotte Island which [...]
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Worried by the stagnation of fiscal revenue, the Ugandan government is going to set up a committee to examine a [...]
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Apart from privatization of the Kilimanjaro hotel in Dar es Salaam, six other hotels (Lake Manyara hotel, Lobo lodge, Mafia [...]
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Rations for Ugandan military fighting rebels in western Uganda are not getting through and the military have to buy and [...]
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UMMA, the opposition party of Sudanese ex-prime minister Sadiq al Mahdi, suspended its membership of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) the [...]
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Zanzibar's decision to expel Kenyan national Ahmed Yasin Ali Samantar at the beginning of this month following a dispute with [...]
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Parallel with the present Democrat administration, several experts in African affairs have attached themselves to Al Gore, incumbent US vice [...]
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If French head of state Jacques Chirac does indeed go [...]
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Sadiq Al Mahdi is seeking allies for his strategy of [...]
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A delegation of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et [...]
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Guma Olako, administrator of the town of Gedeb, in Gedeo [...]
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The chairman of Ethiopian Air Traffic Controllers Association (EATCA) wrote [...]
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Eight local companies have been pre-selected for the government's Smart Identity Card (SMICA) project which will require 200 million rupees [...]
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The Seychelles government has promised to grant foreign airlines a small allocation of foreign currency so they can repatriate some [...]
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The government bill on reorganization for French overseas territories tabled recently by overseas minister Jean Jack Queyranne has been very [...]
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Several Comoran army officers led a mini-invasion of a number of official buildings in Moroni in the night of March [...]
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The new ambassador of France to The Comoros was hardly named than he was confronted this week with an attempted [...]
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The former Mauritian secretary for finance has added a string to his bow. Dev Manraj was already an independent financial [...]
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The privately-owned firm Mabor de Moçambique with 70 billion meticais (about US$4.6 million) of capital has three more Mozambican private [...]
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The man who was once the all-powerful civil service head on Mauritius during ex-prime minister Anerood Jugnauth's time will next [...]
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Finally it wasn't Mamy Rabenja (ION 893) but a technical [...]
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The planned takeover of shares held by Malaysian partners in [...]
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The cabinet director to the Malagasy fisheries minister Christophe Veloson [...]
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Ian Phillips, special adviser to South African minister of public [...]
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The World Bank has about half a dozen new projects in the pipeline for each belligerent in the Eritrea-Ethiopia border [...]
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A resumption of tension is foreseeable between Maputo and Lisbon over the negotiations on the future of Portugal's Hidroeléctrica de [...]
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The Seychelles and the Comoro Islands are among the eight member-countries of Organization of African Unity (OAU) which have their [...]
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Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) last week approved setting up [...]
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American company Enron has found five new partners for its [...]
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An on-line bookmaker who set up service on the Seychelles [...]
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