The Netherlands' honorary consul to the Seychelles, who owns a hotel on the archipelago, is reported to be negotiating with International Finance Corporation (a World Bank subsidiary) for a loan of ...

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) ...

Ethiopian businessman Yemeru Nega (who is of the Gurage tribe) has set his company, Yencomad Inc. Pvt. Ltd Co, to putting up a twelve-floor building of 4,000 sq.m in Addis Ababa, at an estimated cost ...

The four Belgian military personnel who were still working in Niger returned home in December. Brussels had maintained a ...

A handful of French military veterans gave training to around 20 Senegalese officers in November. The officers who received the training are active in a range of services, from the gendarmerie to ...

As a member of the Nigerian delegation led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Paris in November, Defence Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar was approached by a handful of French companies. Some of the ...

Ever since 23 December, when a man bound for Dubai via Addis Ababa was arrested at Antananarivo's Ivato airport with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien ...

A financial expert who was elected to parliament on the MSM/MMM's winning electoral list, Sushil Kushiram was given the wide-ranging ministerial portfolio for financial services, corporate affairs and ...

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...

The chairman and managing director of the leading industrial and sugar refining company on Reunion Island, the French group Quartier Français, Xavier Thiéblin, is trying to recycle himself into a job ...

The new Mauritian ambassador to Paris is expected to present her credentials soon to the French authorities. A long-standing member of the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM), part of the current ...