The honorary consuls active in the country are in the process of creating an association to better coordinate their ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Italian businessman Luciano Fragola who runs the Eldo group has dropped his project for an industrial zone specializing in clothing textiles, " Carthage Fashion City, " that was to have opened in the ...

After waiting since last July, the Algerian government has finally named Amine Kherbi rather than Mohamed Salah Dembri as Algeria's ambassador to Washington. The Bush administration reportedly ...

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 ...

The new trade counsellor at the French embassy in Tripoli, Jean-Louis Fontenille, won't suffer cultural shock in the byzantime atmosphere in Tripoli. He has just spent four years in Damascus and had ...