The businessman who has been accused of embezzling US$350 million of Kenyan public funds was released on bail of $100,000 on January 9. Kamlesh Pattni, who is Indo-Pakistani origin, is suspected of ...

Head of state Robert Mugabe has named a new director general of Zimbabwe's secret service, the Central Intelligence Organization, to replace Elleck Mashingaidze, who retired in November on health ...

With no consensus among its members, it is the head of state Joaquim Chissano who has named Jamisse Taimo chairman of Comissao Nacional de Eleiçoes charged with organizing the general election in ...

In a January 2 letter, the Tanzania Communications Commission (TCC) informed the company TriTelecommunications (Tritel) that it had suspended Tritel's GSM cellphone license beginning January 31.

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 ...

The honorary consuls active in the country are in the process of creating an association to better coordinate their ...

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 ...

Ever since 23 December, when a man bound for Dubai via Addis Ababa was arrested at Antananarivo's Ivato airport with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien ...

Moulay Idriss Filali, whose mother is King Mohammed VI's elder sister, is gradually expanding his economic empire. With help from the Anglo-Israeli Schimmel family, he now plans to strengthen his ...

Italian businessman Luciano Fragola who runs the Eldo group has dropped his project for an industrial zone specializing in clothing textiles, " Carthage Fashion City, " that was to have opened in the ...

Located 550 km south-west of Addis Ababa in the regional state of Oromia, the Yayu coal field was discovered in 1996 by the Ethiopian Institute for Geological Surveys (EIGS). Late last year, four ...