The Ivorian president will head to France on 15 January for personal reasons on a visit that coincides with his Angolan ...

Moulay Idriss Filali, whose mother is King Mohammed VI's elder sister, is gradually expanding his economic empire. With help ...

Veolia and Gabon held a closed-door meeting in Paris from July 28 to 29 after the French group was stripped of its water and power concession in February.

Since the arrest of a man with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien Fanambinana Soananata.

Tema LNG Terminal Co (TLTC), the company which owns Ghana's Tema LNG import terminal, was over-optimistic in its forecast of the date for Shell's first LNG delivery to the terminal. The delivery, ...

A former Mauritian ambassador to France is to be chairman of Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and is expected to try to make the state-owned radio and television service less anchored to ...

It is a specialist of money laundering questions, French magistrate Patrick Fiévet, who is to occupy shortly the post of technical adviser to Djibouti justice minister Mohamed Dini Farah. This post ...

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 Malagasy republic's mediator, who has just attended in Paris the first meeting of mediators and ombudsmen from Africa, Europe, and the Indian Ocean (see "Mediator gets support" on page 3 of this ...

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 ...

Just four weeks before Kenya's general elections on December 29, head of state Daniel arap Moi has named the chairman of the national electoral commission, justice Zaccheus Chesoni, 61, to be Kenyan ...

Returning home on June 18 from Tunis (where he attended the Organization of African Unity summit) and from Paris (where he met his French opposite number Edouard Balladur), Mauritian prime minister ...