Spotlight | South Africa
A Journey to Nepad's Secretariat
Since its launch in October 2001, the Nepad has few accomplishments to its credit
Since its launch in October 2001, the Nepad has few accomplishments to its credit
The former vice-president of the national assembly (1998-2002), who was briefly president of the assembly under Marc Ravalomanana's regime (May [...]
Neva Makgetla, an economist with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Consatu) who is of Swedish origin and lived [...]
The senior officer in charge of the Iron Fist operation (the fight against the rebels of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance [...]
Three new Mauritian ambassadors have been named: Usha Dwarka-Canabady, Shree Baboo Chekitan Servansing, and Somduth Soborun. Servansing and Soboruns' promotions [...]
A new round of discussions on security opened between Kenya and Uganda this week in Turkana (Kenya). The goal of [...]
In the beginning of the year, the Ethiopian minister of information, Bereket Simeon, had criticized Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two [...]
The Malagasy minister of home affairs and of administrative reform, Jean Seth Rambeloarijaona, completed a private visit to France this [...]
In late May, the British parliament's Select Committee on Foreign Affairs wrote a report on Zimbabwe that proposed fifteen recommendations [...]
At the same time that he named a new head of the army (see p.8), President Yoweri Museveni created the [...]
Two years after their first agreement, Hassan al Turabi's Islamist party and John Garang's rebels have found common ground.
In the 2005 legislative elections, Meles Zenawi could run in the capital, and not in the regional state of Tigray like before.
The Portuguese ambassador upset the Mozambican presidency by inviting Afonso Dlakhama to a dinner with Portuguese entrepreneurs.
Depending on whether he speaks in French or in Comorian, Azali gives different remarks on the mediation of the Organisation internationale de la francophonie.
Large international companies that distribute oil products in Zimbabwe sent a letter of complaint to the minister of energy and [...]
The granting of the Pre-Shipment Inspection contract is imminent, but the two losing companies attempted a last-minute appeal.
The government's policy of selling State-owned housing to its employees provokes abuse of power and criticism.
The creditors of a brewery that ceased to operate in the north of the country plan to file a lawsuit against its Portuguese shareholders for fraudulent bankruptcy.
Ethiopian Airlines was just the target of two incidents, one right after the other, that could damage its image.
The government will subject draft bills to parliament offering other advantages to offshore firms that want to benefit from tax havens.
The Ethiopian Privatization Authority (EPA) could cancel the second tender, launched early this year, for the sale of three State [...]
The Méridien Barbarons Beach hotel, which belongs to the Seychelles government, has apparently been sold to a consortium directed by [...]
When the tender closed on May 30, the Malagasy authorities had received four proposals to lease/manage the State sugar company, [...]
The opposition leader, Uhuru Kenyatta, named his ?shadow cabinet? this [...]
The Tunisian ambassador to Yemen, Abdouljalil Azzouz, was just accredited [...]
After a long meeting, the Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (ELF-RC, [...]
As part of changes made last week at the top [...]
The International Finance Company (IFC, branch of the World Bank) [...]
The European Union (EU) delegation in Uganda directed by Sigurd [...]
The Chambre de commerce et d'industrie France-Madagascar (CCIFM) will be [...]
The British company Virgin Atlantic Airlines opened high-level negotiations to [...]
Beatrice Kubheka, the managing director of African Response, the top [...]
The American company Digimarc ID Systems, based in Burlington (Massachusetts), [...]
Radio France Internationale's (RFI, finance by the French government) managing [...]
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The publisher of the independent Seychelles weekly Regar was invited [...]