Last year, the head of state ordered the arrest of a Congolese businessman who was involved in a dispute with a Chinese gold ...

To counter the terrorist groups operating in the northeast of the country, Brigadier-General Adebayo Adekola has been ...

According to documents obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the former Comoros minister for Equipment, Energy, Post and Telecommunications, sent three letters simultaneously on September 20 to ...

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

The former minister for industrial development Yekoyada Francis Omoto Masakhalia has inherited the finance portfolio, taking over from outgoing Simeon Nyachae, who was moved to another ministerial ...

The deputy secretary for publicity and information of the Zimbabwean government party ZANU-PF, Chen Chimutengwende, has demanded the indictment of the leader of the Forum Party, Enoch Dumbutshena, on ...

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 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 ...

After having been a former official of a rival political movement to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front which took power in Asmara, Mohamed Nour Ahmed rallied to their cause and has now become ...

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) ...

Kefagn Patriotic Front (KPF, see also ION N° 571), an armed group which opposes the government Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), recently named five generals to its executive ...