His association with TGV has boosted the activities of the Sodiat group he set up in May 1990 and which today counts a dozen or so companies in different fields of activity. In return, Ravatomanga ...

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 ...

As a member of the Nigerian delegation led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Paris in November, Defence Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar was approached by a handful of French companies. Some of the ...

Killed, along with his two bodyguards, last week in a hotel in Beni (Democratic Republic of Congo) where he had just arrived, major Reuben Ikondere, the second-in-command of the UPDF force in DRC, may ...

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 vice-chancellor of Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, handed his resignation to head of state Joaquim Chissano this week to protest against the tough police repression turned on striking ...

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 ...