The vice-chancellor of Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, handed his resignation to head of state Joaquim Chissano this week to protest against the tough police repression turned on striking ...

The manager of Association des Hoteliers et Restaurateurs de l'Ile Maurice (AHRIM) has been named board chairman of Ecole Hoteliere de Maurice, which in another nomination, now has Harmon Chellen as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since 23 December, when a man bound for Dubai via Addis Ababa was arrested at Antananarivo's Ivato airport with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien ...

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 ...

French companies working in the defence sector approached Mohammed Badaru Abubakar when he came to Paris in November as part ...

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 ...

Wife of the Seychelles Consul in Germany who died last year, Maryse Eichler is to take over her late husband's post. Manageress of Hotel Northolme, she is the sister of the Seychelles external ...

According to certain information, the Ethiopian education minister is again ill at ease in government. The impression that she is isolated inside the Ethiopian leaders' team was perceptible, according ...

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 former boss of the Societe Comorienne des Hydrocarbures (SCH) Colonel Mahamoud Mradabi, today leader of the Chawiri party, is placing his pawns around president Assoumani Azzali. His son captain ...