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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Located 550 km south-west of Addis Ababa in the regional state of Oromia, the Yayu coal field was discovered in 1996 by the Ethiopian Institute for Geological Surveys (EIGS). Late last year, four ...

A lot of changes at the top have occurred at the West African Portland Cement Company Plc (WAPCO) since it was taken over by Lafarge when the French group bought its parent company, Blue Circle ...

The former commandant of the Comoros Islands gendarmerie and head of the utility Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures Mahamoud Mradabi has just founded a new political party in Moroni called Mouvement ...

The first infrastructures of Djibouti dry port, valued at US$12 million, have been completed (tarmacked central area, parking, offices, 7,000 sq.m of warehousing, etc). Djibouti Dry Port (DPP) ...