The honorary consuls active in the country are in the process of creating an association to better coordinate their ...

Italian businessman Luciano Fragola who runs the Eldo group has dropped his project for an industrial zone specializing in clothing textiles, " Carthage Fashion City, " that was to have opened in the ...

Located 550 km south-west of Addis Ababa in the regional state of Oromia, the Yayu coal field was discovered in 1996 by the Ethiopian Institute for Geological Surveys (EIGS). Late last year, four ...

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 ...

The current professor of sociology at Addis Ababa University, Andargachew Tesfaye, has been appointed chairman of Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO). This human rights organization set up in 1991 ...

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 ...

Kenya's former secretary to the government and head of the Kenyan civil service (until unexpectedly replaced by Dr. Richard Leakey in July) took up his new functions this week as Kenyan permanent ...

After waiting since last July, the Algerian government has finally named Amine Kherbi rather than Mohamed Salah Dembri as Algeria's ambassador to Washington. The Bush administration reportedly ...

The new trade counsellor at the French embassy in Tripoli, Jean-Louis Fontenille, won't suffer cultural shock in the byzantime atmosphere in Tripoli. He has just spent four years in Damascus and had ...

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries has elected its first-ever lady president in the person of Ms. Jonee Blanchfield. She will replace Jonah Wakatama, who in his time was CZI's first-ever Black ...

A lot of changes at the top have occurred at the West African Portland Cement Company Plc (WAPCO) since it was taken over by Lafarge when the French group bought its parent company, Blue Circle ...

The former commandant of the Comoros Islands gendarmerie and head of the utility Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures Mahamoud Mradabi has just founded a new political party in Moroni called Mouvement ...