The Congolese president is expected to travel to Tripoli and Benghazi in early December in his capacity as chairman of the African Union's high-level committee on the Libyan crisis.

Two representatives of the US giant Heinz Foods are currently in The Seychelles finalizing negotiations to take over the state-owned tuna canning plant Conserveries de l'Océan Indien (ION N° 649).

The cabinet director of Madagascar's prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo is a woman, Ms. Ramisandrazana Rakotoarintseheno. Born in 1958 and now bringing up an adopted child as a single mother, ...

Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam on November 24 suspended Raj Dayal as police commissioner after a long-running dispute (ION N° 787) and appointed a special inquiry commission headed by former chief ...

The corporate brand and communication manager (since 1995) of Shell on Mauritius has been chosen by the government as board chairman of Export Processing Zones Development Authority (EPZDA), taking ...

Since October, on several occasions, US nationals have been stopped by border police at Bangui-M'Poko airport upon attempting to enter the Central African Republic. In late November, three American ...

As a potential funder of the upgrading of the railway between Dakar and Bamako, the World Bank is supporting the two capitals in the structuring of this project, estimated to cost $830m. Thanks to a ...

The cancellation last week of the decree appointing Armand Ralaidovy to be coordinator of the World Bank health project known as Cresan was not enough to pacify the Bretton Woods institutions. Two ...

Increasingly concerned about the advance of the M23 rebels in the east of the country, DRC president Felix Tshisekedi has been scouring for help abroad to push his case. For several weeks now, ...

In just one year, the Pan-African Youth Union will have had no less than three executive directors. The most recent appointment, which was made a few weeks ago, was that of Imane Ibn El Melih, a ...

Amid continuing tensions between France and Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou has chosen a new ambassador to take over its embassy in Paris.