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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parliament this week approved the nomination of Ben Okello Luwum as auditor general and of John Kisembo as inspector general of police. The first-named replaces James Kahooza who has held the post ...

The young (36) KANU MP for the Cherangani constituency in Uasin Gishu District who made his mark for outspoken comments on head of state Daniel arap Moi in March 1996 (ION N° 713) was this week named ...