SOFREMINES has joined forces with the U.S. firm Booz Allen & Hamilton to conduct a ?strategic diagnostic study? of the Algerian firm Ferphos which operates the Djebel Onk mine.

Former health minister in Djibouti, Mohamed Djama Elabe formed the Mouvement pour la Paix and Reconciliation before taking over at the head of the Front Uni de l'Opposition Djiboutienne (FUOD) in ...

Killed, along with his two bodyguards, last week in a hotel in Beni (Democratic Republic of Congo) where he had just arrived, major Reuben Ikondere, the second-in-command of the UPDF force in DRC, may ...

The vice-chancellor of Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, handed his resignation to head of state Joaquim Chissano this week to protest against the tough police repression turned on striking ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

The manager of Association des Hoteliers et Restaurateurs de l'Ile Maurice (AHRIM) has been named board chairman of Ecole Hoteliere de Maurice, which in another nomination, now has Harmon Chellen as ...

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 ...

Sunergy Inc will begin doing the rounds of potential investors and banks in coming weeks to drum up finance for its new operations in Sierra Leone. The American junior, based in Arizona, has just ...

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

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 ...

Since the victory of the Labour Party/Mouvement Militant Mauricien coalition in December's general election, Marie France Roussety has been trying to become the Mauritian ambassador to France. Her ...

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 ...