A long-time militant of Eritrean People's Liberation Front has been named ambassador to Ethiopia and permanent representative to the Organization of African Unity. Girma Asmerom Tesfay replaces Haile ...

A French national born in Madagascar to which he returned in 1991, Bruno De Foucault was this week named vice-chairman of Groupement des Entreprises Malgaches (GEM). This Zanatany born at Antananarivo ...

The former diplomat and education ministry official Benjamin Kipkulei has been appointed by president Daniel arap Moi to be permanent secretary to the finance ministry. He takes over from Karuga ...

The chairman of Southern Ethiopia Peoples' Democratic Coalition (SEPDC) and National Democratic Coalition (NDC) was elected chairman of the conference for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia, held in ...

The leaders of the ruling Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) who are faithful to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi are seeking to use the same legal weapon against the party's current dissidents that ...

As people in the Central African Republic prepare to vote in Sunday's referendum on constitutional changes, the country's armed groups appear not to be in a position to repeat the disruption they ...

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

Total Gabon has reached agreement with its personnel at the Cap Lopez oil terminal on the terms of their departure from the company and transfer to Perenco. The Franco-British group announced at the ...

Though the war in Ukraine has slowed some of their activity on the continent (AI, 06/07/22, 09/06/22), Russian oil and oil services companies are poised and ready to negotiate new deals in Africa.

The Algerian public electricity utility Sonelgaz is due to select by November companies or consortia for a $2bn project to construct solar power plants with a combined capacity of 2,000MW, mainly in ...

The next meeting between Darfur fighters in Libya and the Sudanese army is set to take place in Doha in early March. Following two previous meetings between fighters from the so-called "Democratic ...

After 30 years at the State House, President Yoweri Museveni, or "M7" to use his campaign nickname, is aiming at the age of 71 to obtain a fifth mandate, which he hopes to win thanks to his hold on ...