Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam on November 24 suspended Raj Dayal as police commissioner after a long-running dispute (ION N° 787) and appointed a special inquiry commission headed by former chief ...

It is not a new ambassador, but a chargé d’affaires who has just been appointed to London by the Ethiopian government. Born in 1955 at Fitche in the present Oromia Regional State, Fisseha Adugna ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A former Mauritian ambassador to France is to be chairman of Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and is expected to try to make the state-owned radio and television service less anchored to ...

The directorate of Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), which heads up Zimbabwe's secret service and the presidential security service, has for the first time been handed over to the military.

The appearance before the Paris court last month of the former doyen of examining magistrates in Nice, Jean-Paul Renard, curiously raked up an old Seychelles history. Renard, who had been ousted from ...

The Mauritius council of ministers last week finally named Ghislaine Henry as the country's new ambassador to Madagascar, more than a year after having earmarked her for the post (ION 775). Ms. Henry ...

The South African businessman Tony Teixeira has just pulled off a major coup. Otterbea International, which is 80.1% owned by Teixeira's company Diamond-Works, has just won an exclusive contract to ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...