The trade department at the French embassy in Nouakchott recently published a survey on the big family groups that corner most of Mauritania's economy. Top dog is the MAOA group (owned by Mohamed ...

With Sophie Ranaivo, the younger daughter of head of state Didier Ratsiraka, Justin Randrianasolo is one of the two administrators representing the largest shareholders of Banque de la Solidarité ...

The deputy secretary for publicity and information of the Zimbabwean government party ZANU-PF, Chen Chimutengwende, has demanded the indictment of the leader of the Forum Party, Enoch Dumbutshena, on ...

Kefagn Patriotic Front (KPF, see also ION N° 571), an armed group which opposes the government Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), recently named five generals to its executive ...

After having been a former official of a rival political movement to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front which took power in Asmara, Mohamed Nour Ahmed rallied to their cause and has now become ...

In a January 2 letter, the Tanzania Communications Commission (TCC) informed the company TriTelecommunications (Tritel) that it had suspended Tritel's GSM cellphone license beginning January 31.

Ethiopian businessman Yemeru Nega (who is of the Gurage tribe) has set his company, Yencomad Inc. Pvt. Ltd Co, to putting up a twelve-floor building of 4,000 sq.m in Addis Ababa, at an estimated cost ...

Germany's new ambassador to Madagascar Hubert Beemelmans, who has just presented his Letters of Credence, has spent his whole career in diplomacy. Born in Cologne in 1932, he studied law at Hamburg ...

Personal secretary to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Innocent Bisangwa-Mbuguje was arrested in the United States last month, along with two former officers from Egypt and an local consultant for ...

The Netherlands' honorary consul to the Seychelles, who owns a hotel on the archipelago, is reported to be negotiating with International Finance Corporation (a World Bank subsidiary) for a loan of ...

Mauritius' next prime minister Navin Ramgoolam, who is leader of the Labour Party and a partner in the victorious alliance with Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien, came late in life to ...

The former minister for industrial development Yekoyada Francis Omoto Masakhalia has inherited the finance portfolio, taking over from outgoing Simeon Nyachae, who was moved to another ministerial ...