The former diplomat and education ministry official Benjamin Kipkulei has been appointed by president Daniel arap Moi to be permanent secretary to the finance ministry. He takes over from Karuga ...

In accordance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), Washington reserves the right to block any sale that involves American components. The effectiveness of the TB2, which was designed ...

For the past ten days, Ivorian police have been trying to locate an Italian and two Lebanese men, who are suspected of being the instigators of the vast network dismantled after the record seizure of ...

A French national born in Madagascar to which he returned in 1991, Bruno De Foucault was this week named vice-chairman of Groupement des Entreprises Malgaches (GEM). This Zanatany born at Antananarivo ...

The former deputy secretary general for communications (June 1994) of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebel movement), Ibrahim Chehem Daoud, who had ...

The former defence minister of ex-president Milton Obote has created an anti-government guerrilla movement, the Uganda Popular Freedom Movement, at Tororo. Aged about fifty and from the Iteso tribe, ...

The former policeman, who had handed in his resignation from the police service on January 3, has been sworn in as a barrister to the Supreme Court of Mauritius. Married, with two children, Premnath ...

The elder son of Joaquim Chissano is continuously in the limelight, and the Mozambique president’s reputation may not survive unscathed (ION 940). Already two years ago, the Chissano family had felt ...

The company Jubilee Platinum, quoted on the London Stock Exchange, has recently set up a subsidiary in Antananarivo, called Mineral Resources of Madagascar (MRM). 15% of MRM shares are owned by local ...

French ambassador to Djibouti Jean Marie Momal (ION N° 635) signed an official advisory note on February first for public information announcing his decision to "forbid French nationals to move ...

The conflict with NNPC dates to 2011. In 2014, a special arbitration tribunal ordered the national oil firm to pay ExxonMobil and Shell $2.5bn for having overpaid itself in revenue from OML 133. This ...

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