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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...