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, ex-employees of the private security company EPEE, provided training to around 20 ...

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 ...

According to the government of Zanzibar, the international court of arbitration of the Paris International Chamber of Commerce (ICCP) found in its favour in its dispute with the Italian construction ...

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

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

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 ...

Kefagn Patriotic Front (KPF, see also ION N° 571), an armed group which opposes the government Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), recently named five generals to its executive ...

According to documents obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the former Comoros minister for Equipment, Energy, Post and Telecommunications, sent three letters simultaneously on September 20 to ...

President France Albert René's appointment of his young wife, Sarah René, as member and vice chairman of the board of the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) has stirred fresh criticism of the ...