French companies working in the defence sector approached Mohammed Badaru Abubakar when he came to Paris in November as part ...

Andry Rajoelina, who has been president of Madagascar's High Transitional Authority since March 2009, is Africa's youngest head of state. The controversial circumstances of his accession to high ...

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is due to take a private trip to France around 15 January. In addition to a stay in a villa in Mougins, in the south of France, he is due to spend several days in ...

Now that its joint venture partnership with Toyota Tshusho Corp on the Achmach tin project in Morocco has been completed (talks are underway to finance construction of a mine) Kasbah Resources has ...

The director general (since 1996) of the Institut Geographique et Hydrographique National Malgache (FTM in its Malagasy initials) is chairman of the destiny of a new association which aims to ...

Two rival chambers of commerce, the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and Seychelles Chamber of Commerce decided last week to merge. The chairman of the new SCCI is Micky Mason, ...

Returning home on June 18 from Tunis (where he attended the Organization of African Unity summit) and from Paris (where he met his French opposite number Edouard Balladur), Mauritian prime minister ...

For the first time in the history of the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), the oldest farming organization of the country has elected a woman managing director, following the departure of ...

Former Tanzanian ambassador to France Weidi Mwasakafyuka, now retired, was questioned by Dar es Salaam police for three hours on November first about newspaper articles he wrote for the ...

Just four weeks before Kenya's general elections on December 29, head of state Daniel arap Moi has named the chairman of the national electoral commission, justice Zaccheus Chesoni, 61, to be Kenyan ...

It is his former deputy Teklewold Atnafu who replaces the governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Dubale Jale since the beginning of March. Dubale was at the head of the Ethiopian central ...

A handful of French military veterans, ex-employees of the private security company EPEE, provided training to around 20 ...