A handful of French military veterans, ex-employees of the private security company EPEE, provided training to around 20 ...

The Ivorian president will head to France on 15 January for personal reasons on a visit that coincides with his Angolan ...

Moulay Idriss Filali, whose mother is King Mohammed VI's elder sister, is gradually expanding his economic empire. With help ...

BROWN & ROOT-CONDOR, a joint engineering venture between Sonatrach and the U.S. firm Brown & Root, an affiliate of Halliburton, posted net earnings of 1.9 billion dinar in 2001. Headed by Abdelmoumen ...

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 first infrastructures of Djibouti dry port, valued at US$12 million, have been completed (tarmacked central area, parking, offices, 7,000 sq.m of warehousing, etc). Djibouti Dry Port (DPP) ...

After having been a former official of a rival political movement to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front which took power in Asmara, Mohamed Nour Ahmed rallied to their cause and has now become ...

Since the arrest of a man with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien Fanambinana Soananata.

Ethiopia's sole tractor assembly line, the state-owned Nazareth Tractor Assembly located in Nazareth, 100 km south-east of Addis Ababa, should be privatized next year. It has already received requests ...

A former member of the now defunct Federal Democratic Movement and today leader of a group of anti-government rebels based inside Uganda (see "Museveni plays it carefully", page 2 in this issue), Fred ...