The main mobile money companies in Madagascar consider a new tax bill to be 'inefficient' and 'dangerous' and are calling ...

Mauritius' next prime minister Navin Ramgoolam, who is leader of the Labour Party and a partner in the victorious alliance with Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien, came late in life to ...

After waiting since last July, the Algerian government has finally named Amine Kherbi rather than Mohamed Salah Dembri as Algeria's ambassador to Washington. The Bush administration reportedly ...

The former minister for industrial development Yekoyada Francis Omoto Masakhalia has inherited the finance portfolio, taking over from outgoing Simeon Nyachae, who was moved to another ministerial ...

The new trade counsellor at the French embassy in Tripoli, Jean-Louis Fontenille, won't suffer cultural shock in the byzantime atmosphere in Tripoli. He has just spent four years in Damascus and had ...

Privatization of Soa Hill Timber Mill is the centre of a controversy in Dar-Es-Salaam. When George Mbowe, chairman of the Parastatal Sector Reform Commission (PSRC, which supervises privatizations), ...

A financial expert who was elected to parliament on the MSM/MMM's winning electoral list, Sushil Kushiram was given the wide-ranging ministerial portfolio for financial services, corporate affairs and ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

The Congolese president is expected to travel to Tripoli and Benghazi in early December in his capacity as chairman of the African Union's high-level committee on the Libyan crisis.

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...