Former secretary of state for foreign affairs Mustafa Osman Ismail is to take over from Ali Osman Mohamed Taha as foreign minister as Taha moves to replace the late Sudanese first vice president ...

A professional statistician has been appointed Ethiopian ambassador to Kenya. Teshome Toga Chanaka, who is a member of the small Wolayta tribe and was born in southern Ethiopia in 1959, is a BSc ...

Businessman Joseph Lusse and three other Ugandan nationals were arrested on May 9 on charges of treason. They are suspected of working since August 1994 to overthrow the regime of head of state Yoweri ...

A financial expert who was elected to parliament on the MSM/MMM's winning electoral list, Sushil Kushiram was given the wide-ranging ministerial portfolio for financial services, corporate affairs and ...

The chairman and managing director of the leading industrial and sugar refining company on Reunion Island, the French group Quartier Français, Xavier Thiéblin, is trying to recycle himself into a job ...

Antonio Palange, leader of Mozambique's parliamentary opposition, has criticized a proposal by FRELIMO (government) for Mozambique to become a member of the Commonwealth. Palange claims that ...

The MDP-NGDC (political opposition) MP for Mutsamudu, Ahmed Fuad ben Mohamed, aka Kokignon, is still in detention in Moroni prison after having been transferred from Anjouan on January 10, with his ...

SOFREMINES has joined forces with the U.S. firm Booz Allen & Hamilton to conduct a ?strategic diagnostic study? of the Algerian firm Ferphos which operates the Djebel Onk mine.

Ethiopia's sole tractor assembly line, the state-owned Nazareth Tractor Assembly located in Nazareth, 100 km south-east of Addis Ababa, should be privatized next year. It has already received requests ...

The new Mauritian ambassador to Paris is expected to present her credentials soon to the French authorities. A long-standing member of the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM), part of the current ...

Former health minister in Djibouti, Mohamed Djama Elabe formed the Mouvement pour la Paix and Reconciliation before taking over at the head of the Front Uni de l'Opposition Djiboutienne (FUOD) in ...

The firm Greenstone Mining - a company based in Swaziland but with British shareholders - has found a well-known local partner in order to give impetus to its grandiose projects in Mozambique. These ...