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 ...

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is due to take a private trip to France around 15 January. In addition to a stay in a villa in Mougins, in the south of France, he is due to spend several days in ...

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

Jimnah Mbaru has been head of the Dyer & Blair investment bank, which today is highly prosperous, since 1983. He also has a substantial portfolio of shares in other flourishing companies. Born in 1947 ...

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) ...

A whole raft of Madagascar's business elite, some of them well over sixty, are in the process of organising their succession. These founding owners of major companies, most of whom are French ...

In the meantime, Rajaonarimampianina had been bold and far-seeing enough to stand in the presidential election under the colours of his own political movement, the Hery Vaovao hoan'i Madagasikara ...

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 ...

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