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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASCO, Libya's National Supply Corporation, no longer holds a monopoly on wheat sales in Libya. The government has deregulated the sector and done away with subsidized prices. As a result, ...

For the past ten days, Ivorian police have been trying to locate an Italian and two Lebanese men, who are suspected of being the instigators of the vast network dismantled after the record seizure of ...

Ronak Pratap Madhvani, generally known as Roni Madhvani, is becoming the most widely known member of this powerful Asian family. He has just been appointed chairman of the board of the powerful Uganda ...

A veritable new broom swept out the existing management of flag carrier Ethiopian Airlines on July 11. Chaired by Seye Abraha (a member of Tigray People's Liberation Front, an ex-defence minister, and ...

A decree dated 9 July from President Ismaël Omar Guelleh authorised Mohamed Idriss Nour "to exercise the activity of distribution and sale of kerosene with exclusive rights" in Djibouti. To do this, ...

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 defence minister of ex-president Milton Obote has created an anti-government guerrilla movement, the Uganda Popular Freedom Movement, at Tororo. Aged about fifty and from the Iteso tribe, ...

The former deputy secretary general for communications (June 1994) of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebel movement), Ibrahim Chehem Daoud, who had ...

The elder son of Joaquim Chissano is continuously in the limelight, and the Mozambique president’s reputation may not survive unscathed (ION 940). Already two years ago, the Chissano family had felt ...