The start of a third presidential mandate by Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) proves that the time for change has not yet come. It is true that IOG has dropped a number of the ministers he did not like and brought [.
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The family group Fraise, which has had the monopoly to brew beer in Madagascar for decades, was unable to stand [...]
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A second meeting between Somaliland and Ethiopian security officials is planned this week, to follow the one held in Dire [...]
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The Prime Minister told the MPs who came to tell him what they thought of the head of the Kenya Ports Authority to wait until after the 2012 election.
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Several Darfur rebel groups that have still not signed the peace agreement with Khartoum met recently in Uganda to discuss a joint strategy.
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The morale of soldiers on post on the Eritrean border is at low ebb. Some recent desertions have been announced.
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The magistrate who interviewed four members of the security forces under caution on drugs charges does not want to let go. But he could be removed from the case.
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The project to build a new Kenyan commercial port at Lamu could become bone of contention for both the American [...]
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The two establishments – a Novotel and an Ibis – that the French hotel group Accor planned to open in the Ethiopian capital this year have not yet got off the ground.
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The head of SouthWest Energy wanted to get hold of the gas permits abandoned by Petronas in the Ogaden. But he lost out to someone with deeper pockets.
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The two rival factions fighting in court for the leadership of the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce & Industry now have to deal with a new competitor.
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It is now the turn of the chairman of the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), Philip Okundi to be in [...]
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Disappointed at not being selected to sit on the Supreme Court, the lawyer Kathurima M'Inoti, 48, the sitting chairman of [...]
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The Ethiopian Minister for Justice, Berhanu Hailu, recently lost a member of his delegation during a trip to the United [...]
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The president of the Oromo National Congress (ONC, a legal [...]
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On 23 July President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud, known as Silanyo, [...]
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While searching the immigration office of the Mayotte prefectureon 26 [...]
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The Norwegian Hilde Frafjord Johnson, the Juba representative of the [...]
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The British national Sarah Hermitage took advantage of the 19 [...]
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The Italian businessman Pier Gianni Prosperini was once again imprisoned [...]
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Already confronted with constant sniping from critics on another matter, [...]
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A company dependent on the Ethiopian ministry of defence but [...]
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The mining subsidiary of the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation [...]
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Peter Muthoka, one of the main contributors to the election [...]
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The trench warfare the opposition leader is waging against the governing alliance has borne fruit. The LP/MSM coalition is a hair’s breadth from imploding.
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A lawyer’s complaints against the nomination of Judge Nourdine Abodo as a presidential advisor will be battled out in court.
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The presence of a Malagasy dignitary at a golf tournament in Mauritius next week almost provoked a diplomatic incident between the two countries.
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Not a quarter goes by without one or other member of the families of former Presidents Samora Machel and Joaquim Chissano creating a new company in Maputo.
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Ahmed Saeed has been at the head of the State-owned bank for twenty years and is resisting certain government directives. This could cost him his job.
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The new company Air Mohéli International has still not found its market on the Moroni-Dubai route.
Lantosoa Razafimahaleo can count on the discreet support of Solofo Ralamboarison in the conflict pitting him against Edgard Razafindravahy to take control of Sitram.
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At the moment, the head of the Beachcomber group and major shareholder in Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB), Herbert Couacaud is [...]
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The general secretary of the Groupement Pétrolier de Madagascar (GPM), Alain Soumoudronga, whose mandate was renewed at the end of [...]
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The Morocco born French businessman Christophe Stimbre, 50, is pulling [...]
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The Mauritian group Food and Allied (FAIL) headed by Michel [...]
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The leading bank in Mauritius is to embark on a [...]
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The conflict between the State-owned company Electricite d’Anjouan (EDA) and [...]
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The head of the Beachcomber hotel group Herbert Couacaud, is [...]
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