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 ...

With his Franco-Malagasy nationality, his Karana Indian origins, his Italian wife and Indian overseas citizenship, Ylias Akbaraly is a businessman with an international outlook. He was trained by his ...

As a member of the Nigerian delegation led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Paris in November, Defence Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar was approached by a handful of French companies. Some of the ...

Former secretary of state for foreign affairs Mustafa Osman Ismail is to take over from Ali Osman Mohamed Taha as foreign minister as Taha moves to replace the late Sudanese first vice president ...

Businessman Joseph Lusse and three other Ugandan nationals were arrested on May 9 on charges of treason. They are suspected of working since August 1994 to overthrow the regime of head of state Yoweri ...

Killed, along with his two bodyguards, last week in a hotel in Beni (Democratic Republic of Congo) where he had just arrived, major Reuben Ikondere, the second-in-command of the UPDF force in DRC, may ...

A handful of French military veterans, ex-employees of the private security company EPEE, provided training to around 20 ...

The vice-chancellor of Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, handed his resignation to head of state Joaquim Chissano this week to protest against the tough police repression turned on striking ...

The manager of Association des Hoteliers et Restaurateurs de l'Ile Maurice (AHRIM) has been named board chairman of Ecole Hoteliere de Maurice, which in another nomination, now has Harmon Chellen as ...

The new United States ambassador in Eritrea is a diplomat with many years of experience in African affairs. Aged 53, Robert Houdek has spent more than thirty years in the foreign service. His first ...

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 ...