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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The businessman from Somaliland Djama Omar Saïd, who was arrested in Djibouti for "cigarette smuggling" on 4 November and then released a few days later on the 10th of November (LOI nº1367), is due to ...

The pipeline should not start to function for several more weeks, however. According to our sources, Spanish gas distributor Enagas carried out successful tests recently with the gas flow in the ...

The process of selling these assets, which began several months ago, has been hindered by the protests of ExxonMobil staff, who vehemently opposed an on-site visit by Savannah until the subject of ...

Though Africa is a priority for UNESCO, the continent having its own dedicated assistant director, it is significantly under-represented in the upper echelons of the institution run by Audrey Azoulay.

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 ...

Since the victory of the Labour Party/Mouvement Militant Mauricien coalition in December's general election, Marie France Roussety has been trying to become the Mauritian ambassador to France. Her ...