The firm Greenstone Mining - a company based in Swaziland but with British shareholders - has found a well-known local partner in order to give impetus to its grandiose projects in Mozambique. These ...

The six young daughters of Portugal's late industrial magnate Jorge Jardim, are currently preparing a trip to Maputo on November first. Jardim used to live in Mozambique but opposed FRELIMO coming to ...

The new chairman of the Mauritian Syndicat des Sucres has been a well-known cane sugar planter in the Riche-en-Eau region since 1959. A former MP in Parliament (1976-1987) and former chairman of ...

After serving a first term as governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Leonard Tsumba has been re-appointed to the post by head of state Robert Mugabe, for a five-year term. Now 63, Tsumba studied ...

Wife of the Seychelles Consul in Germany who died last year, Maryse Eichler is to take over her late husband's post. Manageress of Hotel Northolme, she is the sister of the Seychelles external ...

Ethiopian businessman Yemeru Nega (who is of the Gurage tribe) has set his company, Yencomad Inc. Pvt. Ltd Co, to putting up a twelve-floor building of 4,000 sq.m in Addis Ababa, at an estimated cost ...

Ethiopia's sole tractor assembly line, the state-owned Nazareth Tractor Assembly located in Nazareth, 100 km south-east of Addis Ababa, should be privatized next year. It has already received requests ...

In spite of his age (72 years old), the former Chief Justice of Zimbabwe, Enoch Dumbutshena, is about to become the main opposition challenger to President Robert Mugabe. He was elected on March 28 as ...

Head of state general Omar Al Bechir's former adviser for security matters, 47-year old brigadier Al Fateh Orawa, has been named the new Sudanese permanent representative to the United Nations.

The temporary executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was confirmed in his duties on a permanent basis during a Windhoek summit last week. Prega Ramsamy of Mauritius ...

The former official of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has just made his return to head the utility after being named board chairman at the beginning of March. Sydney Zikuzo Gata's ...