French companies working in the defence sector approached Mohammed Badaru Abubakar when he came to Paris in November as part ...

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

Ever since 23 December, when a man bound for Dubai via Addis Ababa was arrested at Antananarivo's Ivato airport with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien ...

A veritable new broom swept out the existing management of flag carrier Ethiopian Airlines on July 11. Chaired by Seye Abraha (a member of Tigray People's Liberation Front, an ex-defence minister, and ...

A French national born in Madagascar to which he returned in 1991, Bruno De Foucault was this week named vice-chairman of Groupement des Entreprises Malgaches (GEM). This Zanatany born at Antananarivo ...

The former deputy secretary general for communications (June 1994) of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebel movement), Ibrahim Chehem Daoud, who had ...

The former policeman, who had handed in his resignation from the police service on January 3, has been sworn in as a barrister to the Supreme Court of Mauritius. Married, with two children, Premnath ...

Moulay Idriss Filali, whose mother is King Mohammed VI's elder sister, is gradually expanding his economic empire. With help ...

The Ivorian president will head to France on 15 January for personal reasons on a visit that coincides with his Angolan ...

The elder son of Joaquim Chissano is continuously in the limelight, and the Mozambique president’s reputation may not survive unscathed (ION 940). Already two years ago, the Chissano family had felt ...

Kefagn Patriotic Front (KPF, see also ION N° 571), an armed group which opposes the government Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), recently named five generals to its executive ...