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

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 ...

The Mauritius council of ministers last week finally named Ghislaine Henry as the country's new ambassador to Madagascar, more than a year after having earmarked her for the post (ION 775). Ms. Henry ...

The current professor of sociology at Addis Ababa University, Andargachew Tesfaye, has been appointed chairman of Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO). This human rights organization set up in 1991 ...

One of the rare Luo leaders of an opposition party other than National Democratic Party (NDP, Luo domination), Joe Aketch Donde who battles for months against the increase in interest rates knew his ...

Kenya's former secretary to the government and head of the Kenyan civil service (until unexpectedly replaced by Dr. Richard Leakey in July) took up his new functions this week as Kenyan permanent ...

Last year, the head of state ordered the arrest of a Congolese businessman who was involved in a dispute with a Chinese gold ...

To counter the terrorist groups operating in the northeast of the country, Brigadier-General Adebayo Adekola has been ...

The four Belgian military personnel who were still working in Niger returned home in December. Brussels had maintained a ...

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 ...

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries has elected its first-ever lady president in the person of Ms. Jonee Blanchfield. She will replace Jonah Wakatama, who in his time was CZI's first-ever Black ...