His association with TGV has boosted the activities of the Sodiat group he set up in May 1990 and which today counts a dozen or so companies in different fields of activity. In return, Ravatomanga ...

Moulay Idriss Filali, whose mother is King Mohammed VI's elder sister, is gradually expanding his economic empire. With help ...

Since the arrest of a man with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien Fanambinana Soananata.

The Ivorian president will head to France on 15 January for personal reasons on a visit that coincides with his Angolan ...

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 ...

Just four weeks before Kenya's general elections on December 29, head of state Daniel arap Moi has named the chairman of the national electoral commission, justice Zaccheus Chesoni, 61, to be Kenyan ...

Returning home on June 18 from Tunis (where he attended the Organization of African Unity summit) and from Paris (where he met his French opposite number Edouard Balladur), Mauritian prime minister ...

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 policeman, who had handed in his resignation from the police service on January 3, has been sworn in as a barrister to the Supreme Court of Mauritius. Married, with two children, Premnath ...

Former health minister in Djibouti, Mohamed Djama Elabe formed the Mouvement pour la Paix and Reconciliation before taking over at the head of the Front Uni de l'Opposition Djiboutienne (FUOD) in ...

Despite having suffered setbacks in the parliamentary and presidential elections of 1997 and 2002, he has little by little established himself as one of the central figures in Kenyan political life.

He also serves as the interface between the regime and the Brazzaville business community and as a travelling salesman for the country abroad. Sassou calls on him readily when there is a major ...