Since the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) came to power in Addis Ababa almost two decades ago, the local private banks have grown like mushrooms, protected by the ban on foreign banks from opening up shop in Ethiopia.
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Beaten by Frelimo and President Armando Guebuza in the general [...]
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The MPs from the Central Province (from the Kikuyuand related ethnic groups) who are members of the Party of National [...]
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Three officials in the Addis Ababa Islamic Council who were sacked last week feel they were victims of a political purge.
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The Kenyan Prime Minister wants French help to build a nuclear reactor, so he tried a charm offensive during his official visit to Paris this month.
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The head of the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) will be the target of MPs in the new Parliamentary session that begins this week.
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The race has already started for the 2010 presidential election in Zanzibar. There is a plethora of CCM candidates because Amani Abeid Karume cannot run.
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A group of Kikuyu businessmen wants to buy 80% of the Kenya Planters Cooperative Union, a large coffee producer currently in liquidation.
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The International Finance Corp is to fund Southern Sudan Beverages' plans to expand in Juba.
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The port of Doraleh has become too expensive for the French shipping company. It is moving its container transhipment service to Oman.
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The Abune (patriarch) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), Paulos Gebre Yohannes, may well have good reason to believe that [...]
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The Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has proved this week to [...]
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Officially speaking, the post of National Intelligence Officer for Africa [...]
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The Honorary Consul of Djibouti in Singapore, Ho Leng Woon, [...]
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Although they have not yet been constituted into a distinct [...]
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The local NGO Land Mine Action, which provides help for [...]
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The Joint Assessment Framework (JAF), adopted jointly at the beginning [...]
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The African Union (AU) High Level Panel of the on [...]
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The American company CSS Global, a subsidiary of CSS Alliance [...]
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The Export Trading Group (ETG), owned by three East African [...]
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Based in Naples, Florida and headed by Flavia L. Hauser, [...]
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The shadow of the French oil company has turned up [...]
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The trial of the former Minister for Transport, Antonio Munguambe, for embezzlement, is set to start in mid November.
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The four political movements are preparing for battle this week ahead of the next round of negotiations, scheduled to be held in Addis Ababa on 4 and 5 November.
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In addition to the family firm Focus 21 and President Armando Guebuza's stakes in various companies (including Intelec), the Head [...]
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Several Chinese investors are interested in the Madagascan medication market.
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The activity of Somalian pirates is handicapping cruise tourism. But it is attracting warships into the port of Victoria. One way or the other, the State is earning income.
Galana Distribution Petrolière SA’s capital increase agreed in December 2008 is taking much longer to go through than had been originally expected.
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The book by Maria Barroso, the wife of the Socialist former President of Portugal Mario Soares, will finally be published [...]
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The US Congress Member for Oregon, Earl Blumenauer, (Democrat) filed a draft motion n°839 on 15 October, "condemning the illegal [...]
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Frédéric Hammel, one of the French friends of outgoing Prime Minister Roindefo Monja (ION 1271), is preparing to launch a [...]
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Since 2005 Euan Alastair Kay has been the director of the maize production company Desenvolvimento e Comercializaçao Agricola (DECA), based [...]
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The former Voice of America (VOA) correspondent in Madagascar, Hery [...]
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The new economic advisor to the daily newspaper L’Express, Pierrick [...]
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Never have the French authorities transported the former Malagasy President [...]
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The former general manager of Société Malgache de Transport Maritime [...]
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The new general manager of Total Madagascar, Thierry Gautier, who [...]
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The company registered in Port Louis, Green Power Mauritius, has [...]
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Some Indian entrepreneurs have just created the company Sasty in [...]
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During his recent visit to Mauritius, Roland Ratsiraka, the nephew [...]
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The firm Rogers Aviation has just had some bad news. [...]
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