Brown & Root - Condor Algerie (BRC Algerie), an Algerian affiliate of Haliburton, was the target of an attack in Algiers on Dec.10. A bus carrying the firm’s employees came under gun fire, and one ...

The current professor of sociology at Addis Ababa University, Andargachew Tesfaye, has been appointed chairman of Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO). This human rights organization set up in 1991 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First in the line of this new generation of businessmen born in the age of President Marc Ravalomanana, is his son Tojo, 28, who has been the manager of IrtoTrading since the end of 2004 jointly with ...

The request should land on the desk of African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye before the end of the week: Somalia, which is seeking to replace the ...

Independent deputy for Chlef from 2002 to 2007, M’hamed Meddah Araibi has switched successfully to project management assistance for public sector bodies. His company, Genie Mauresque, has just ...

An ethnic Ndau like the head of RENAMO, Afonso Dhlakama, and the archbishop of Beira, Jaime Gonçalves, the governor of Beira insisted again last week on the need for RENAMO and Frelimo to form a ...

Last month's announcement that the Central Bank of Seychelles governor Aboo Aumeeruddy would be on medical leave until further notice for treatment in France was an advance sign of his forthcoming ...

A former member of the now defunct Federal Democratic Movement and today leader of a group of anti-government rebels based inside Uganda (see "Museveni plays it carefully", page 2 in this issue), Fred ...

The new director general of Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), Etherton Mpisaunga who replaces Joseph F. Chigwedere in this post, will have a lot to do if he wants to pull up the management of this ...

Businessman Chedly Zouten, who ran for president during the era of Habib Bourguiba, is working on a project to build a Formula 1 car racing circuit not far from the new airport at Enfidha. On Nov. 7, ...