The cabinet director of Madagascar's prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo is a woman, Ms. Ramisandrazana Rakotoarintseheno. Born in 1958 and now bringing up an adopted child as a single mother, ...

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 ...

Development works for the Mbalam-Nabeba cross-border iron ore mining project may soon commence. An official ceremony to mark the handover of equipment required to launch operations is due to be held ...

Since the victory of the Labour Party/Mouvement Militant Mauricien coalition in December's general election, Marie France Roussety has been trying to become the Mauritian ambassador to France. Her ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

Killed, along with his two bodyguards, last week in a hotel in Beni (Democratic Republic of Congo) where he had just arrived, major Reuben Ikondere, the second-in-command of the UPDF force in DRC, may ...

ODEP, the agency that manages Morocco's ports, has announced a 114 million DH program to upgrade the port of Safi with the acquisition of new cranes and a tug. The program is aimed at increasing the ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

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.

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, ...

JOANNOU & PARASKEVAIDES J&P OVERSEAS (Greece) has won a contract to build a 120 km-long gas pipeline between Melitah and Tripoli.