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 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 ...

US president Bill Clinton announced on May 13 he had nominated Stanley Schrager of Chicago (Illinois), a career diplomat with minister-councillor ranking, to be the next US ambassador to Djibouti, ...

The Rio Tinto representative arrived in Conakry a few days ago to discuss with Winning Consortium potential collaborations on the Simandou iron project's infrastructures.

Dyck first became involved in the conflict in early April and in early May dispatched his teams to Nacala, 200km south of the operations where Russian paramilitaries have also set up a support base ...

The Senegalese air force wants to boost its paltry ground attack capabilities. It has just four single-engine KA-1S attack aircraft it can use on offensive missions, notably against separatist ...

The second matter being kept off the agenda is even more fraught. The lengthy DSSI document uses wordy diplomatic turns of phase and has some deliberately ambiguous passages that could leave room for ...

The construction of the port of Enfidha also appears to have slid down the list of priorities now that Washington has offered to donate $324m via its Millennium Challenge Corp (MCC) foreign aid agency ...

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

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 ...

When the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meets at its next ordinary summit in Abuja, the commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, Abdel-Fatau Musah, will present his ...