The current professor of sociology at Addis Ababa University, Andargachew Tesfaye, has been appointed chairman of Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO). This human rights organization set up in 1991 ...

CITIC/CRCC (China) has signed an agreement with Algeria's public works ministry to build a training center for middle-management staff in the construction sector. A cookie is a text file placed on the ...

The cancellation last week of the decree appointing Armand Ralaidovy to be coordinator of the World Bank health project known as Cresan was not enough to pacify the Bretton Woods institutions. Two ...

The corporate brand and communication manager (since 1995) of Shell on Mauritius has been chosen by the government as board chairman of Export Processing Zones Development Authority (EPZDA), taking ...

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 ...

A former police inspector who converted into real estate, Moussa Touati, wants to stand in the presidential election on April 8 on condition the Constitutional Council agrees. Touati made his debut in ...

JOANNOU & PARASKEVAIDES J&P OVERSEAS (Greece) has won a contract to build a 120 km-long gas pipeline between Melitah and Tripoli.

Italian businessman Luciano Fragola who runs the Eldo group has dropped his project for an industrial zone specializing in clothing textiles, " Carthage Fashion City, " that was to have opened in the ...

LAICO (Libyan Arab Investment Co) could sell off part of its business to private investors. Its deputy managing director, Meftah Kikli, said during a meeting on Libya organized by Ubifrance (see P. 3) ...

Last month's announcement that the Central Bank of Seychelles governor Aboo Aumeeruddy would be on medical leave until further notice for treatment in France was an advance sign of his forthcoming ...

A new first counsellor (number two) of the French embassy in Nairobi will take up his duties in mid-August. Born in 1971, Yves Gounin has a diploma from Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Economiques et ...

The company Jubilee Platinum, quoted on the London Stock Exchange, has recently set up a subsidiary in Antananarivo, called Mineral Resources of Madagascar (MRM). 15% of MRM shares are owned by local ...