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 ...

Former Tanzanian ambassador to France Weidi Mwasakafyuka, now retired, was questioned by Dar es Salaam police for three hours on November first about newspaper articles he wrote for the ...

Just four weeks before Kenya's general elections on December 29, head of state Daniel arap Moi has named the chairman of the national electoral commission, justice Zaccheus Chesoni, 61, to be Kenyan ...

The president of France's Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE) was questioned as "witness" on Reunion Island on September 21 and asked to explain the terms under which his company obtained the water ...

For the first time in the history of the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), the oldest farming organization of the country has elected a woman managing director, following the departure of ...

Renamed Hadin Kai, the military operation fighting terrorism in northern Nigeria welcomed its new intelligence director this week. Brigadier General Adebayo Adekola took up the post in Maiduguri, the ...

Aziza Kulsum, alias Madame Gulamali, owner of the cigarette-manufacturing company Uzabuco at Bukavu, is the only private partner in a company that buys and sells columbo-tantalite (coltan) which the ...

As people in the Central African Republic prepare to vote in Sunday's referendum on constitutional changes, the country's armed groups appear not to be in a position to repeat the disruption they ...

Andry Rajoelina, who has been president of Madagascar's High Transitional Authority since March 2009, is Africa's youngest head of state. The controversial circumstances of his accession to high ...

Just as international companies are preparing to invest colossal sums of money in gas reserves in the province of Cabo Delgado, a handful of retired generals, who come from this northern region and ...

After having begun his career as a modest seller of foodstuffs, 63-year-old Mohamed Ould Bouamatou has gradually established himself as a major business figure in Mauritania. His BSA group is present ...

Paris has been working for several weeks on sending additional military equipment to Kyiv, but negotiations are still stumbling over how to pay for the operation. The financing should come from a new ...