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 ...

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 ...

Renamed Hadin Kai, the military operation fighting terrorism in northern Nigeria welcomed its new intelligence director this week. Brigadier General Adebayo Adekola took up the post in Maiduguri, the ...

When he came to power on December 21 2010, President Alpha Conde promised a "new era". Two years on, it has become clear that management of the country's mineral resources is more than ever under his ...

The honorary consuls active in the country are in the process of creating an association to better coordinate their ...

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

Last year, the head of state ordered the arrest of a Congolese businessman who was involved in a dispute with a Chinese gold ...

The president of France's Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE) was questioned as "witness" on Reunion Island on September 21 and asked to explain the terms under which his company obtained the water ...

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 ...