The main mobile money companies in Madagascar consider a new tax bill to be 'inefficient' and 'dangerous' and are calling ...

The Congolese president is expected to travel to Tripoli and Benghazi in early December in his capacity as chairman of the African Union's high-level committee on the Libyan crisis.

With no consensus among its members, it is the head of state Joaquim Chissano who has named Jamisse Taimo chairman of Comissao Nacional de Eleiçoes charged with organizing the general election in ...

The special adviser to the late Seychelles foreign, planning and environment minister Ms. Danielle De St Jorre (who died in Paris this week, see ION N° 748), Alain Butler-Payette has just been ...

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 ...

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...

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 ...

After waiting since last July, the Algerian government has finally named Amine Kherbi rather than Mohamed Salah Dembri as Algeria's ambassador to Washington. The Bush administration reportedly ...

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 ...

The new trade counsellor at the French embassy in Tripoli, Jean-Louis Fontenille, won't suffer cultural shock in the byzantime atmosphere in Tripoli. He has just spent four years in Damascus and had ...

Privatization of Soa Hill Timber Mill is the centre of a controversy in Dar-Es-Salaam. When George Mbowe, chairman of the Parastatal Sector Reform Commission (PSRC, which supervises privatizations), ...