Two rival chambers of commerce, the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and Seychelles Chamber of Commerce decided last week to merge. The chairman of the new SCCI is Micky Mason, ...

The director general (since 1996) of the Institut Geographique et Hydrographique National Malgache (FTM in its Malagasy initials) is chairman of the destiny of a new association which aims to ...

For the first time in the history of the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), the oldest farming organization of the country has elected a woman managing director, following the departure of ...

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 ...

Former Tanzanian ambassador to France Weidi Mwasakafyuka, now retired, was questioned by Dar es Salaam police for three hours on November first about newspaper articles he wrote for the ...

It is his former deputy Teklewold Atnafu who replaces the governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Dubale Jale since the beginning of March. Dubale was at the head of the Ethiopian central ...

The young (36) KANU MP for the Cherangani constituency in Uasin Gishu District who made his mark for outspoken comments on head of state Daniel arap Moi in March 1996 (ION N° 713) was this week named ...

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

A handful of French military veterans gave training to around 20 Senegalese officers in November. The officers who received the training are active in a range of services, from the gendarmerie to ...

Andry Rajoelina, who has been president of Madagascar's High Transitional Authority since March 2009, is Africa's youngest head of state. The controversial circumstances of his accession to high ...

Now that its joint venture partnership with Toyota Tshusho Corp on the Achmach tin project in Morocco has been completed (talks are underway to finance construction of a mine) Kasbah Resources has ...

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is due to take a private trip to France around 15 January. In addition to a stay in a villa in Mougins, in the south of France, he is due to spend several days in ...