The main mobile money companies in Madagascar consider a new tax bill to be 'inefficient' and 'dangerous' and are calling ...

With no consensus among its members, it is the head of state Joaquim Chissano who has named Jamisse Taimo chairman of Comissao Nacional de Eleiçoes charged with organizing the general election in ...

The Congolese president is expected to travel to Tripoli and Benghazi in early December in his capacity as chairman of the African Union's high-level committee on the Libyan crisis.

The special adviser to the late Seychelles foreign, planning and environment minister Ms. Danielle De St Jorre (who died in Paris this week, see ION N° 748), Alain Butler-Payette has just been ...

The trade department at the French embassy in Nouakchott recently published a survey on the big family groups that corner most of Mauritania's economy. Top dog is the MAOA group (owned by Mohamed ...

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 ...

US oil major ExxonMobil is cautiously moving forward in the Angolan part of the Namibe Basin. On 6 November, it obtained permission from the authorities to extend the initial exploration period on its ...

Mauritius' next prime minister Navin Ramgoolam, who is leader of the Labour Party and a partner in the victorious alliance with Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien, came late in life to ...

A consortium made up of French firms Colas and Poma has begun talks with the authorities on the construction of Antananarivo's cable car's second line. But uncertainties over its route and budget are ...

Tema LNG Terminal Co (TLTC), the company which owns Ghana's Tema LNG import terminal, was over-optimistic in its forecast of the date for Shell's first LNG delivery to the terminal. The delivery, ...

The cancellation last week of the decree appointing Armand Ralaidovy to be coordinator of the World Bank health project known as Cresan was not enough to pacify the Bretton Woods institutions. Two ...