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 ...

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 four Belgian military personnel who were still working in Niger returned home in December. Brussels had maintained a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MAROCINVEST FINANCE GROUP has just started up business as a new investment consultant. It has a registered venture/development capital of $20 million. Its shareholders include the World Bank affiliate ...

ODEP, the agency that manages Morocco's ports, has announced a 114 million DH program to upgrade the port of Safi with the acquisition of new cranes and a tug. The program is aimed at increasing the ...

It is not a new ambassador, but a chargé d’affaires who has just been appointed to London by the Ethiopian government. Born in 1955 at Fitche in the present Oromia Regional State, Fisseha Adugna ...

The son of the late general Raveloson Mahasampo and of Ms. Hortense Raveloson (MP and head of state Didier Ratsiraka's sister-in-law) dreams of becoming governor of Toliara Province, in southern ...

The appearance before the Paris court last month of the former doyen of examining magistrates in Nice, Jean-Paul Renard, curiously raked up an old Seychelles history. Renard, who had been ousted from ...

A former Mauritian ambassador to France is to be chairman of Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and is expected to try to make the state-owned radio and television service less anchored to ...