According to documents obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the former Comoros minister for Equipment, Energy, Post and Telecommunications, sent three letters simultaneously on September 20 to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...