Former Tanzanian ambassador to France Weidi Mwasakafyuka, now retired, was questioned by Dar es Salaam police for three hours on November first about newspaper articles he wrote for the ...

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 ...

It is his former deputy Teklewold Atnafu who replaces the governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Dubale Jale since the beginning of March. Dubale was at the head of the Ethiopian central ...

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 ...

Aziza Kulsum, alias Madame Gulamali, owner of the cigarette-manufacturing company Uzabuco at Bukavu, is the only private partner in a company that buys and sells columbo-tantalite (coltan) which the ...

The director general (since 1996) of the Institut Geographique et Hydrographique National Malgache (FTM in its Malagasy initials) is chairman of the destiny of a new association which aims to ...

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

The new Djibouti ambassador to Ethiopia, Dileita Mohamed Dileita, recently presented his Letters of Credence to the Ethiopian head of state. Born in Tadjurah on March 12, 1958, he went to high school ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...