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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The directorate of Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), which heads up Zimbabwe's secret service and the presidential security service, has for the first time been handed over to the military.

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 ...

An experienced professional banker, Tekalign Gedamu, who worked for the African Development Bank (ADB) for more than sixteen years, has been named director general of the Bank of Abyssinia. Set up in ...

The South African businessman Tony Teixeira has just pulled off a major coup. Otterbea International, which is 80.1% owned by Teixeira's company Diamond-Works, has just won an exclusive contract to ...

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 ...