Currently serving at the French embassy in Ankara, Ms. Elisabeth Delegue (née Beton) has been named to replace Jean Boulogne as head of France's cooperation and cultural mission on Madagascar.

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

The young Libyan company Arkenu Oil Co has the wind in its sails thanks to Arabian Gulf Oil Co (AGOCO). It is emerging as the National Oil Corp (NOC) subsidiary's new favourite partner, having scored ...

The Ethiopian ambassador in London, who is the brother of Ethiopian head of state Negasso Gidada, has not been at his post for several weeks. Sources believe he has been granted extended sick leave.

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 ...

For the first time in the history of the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), the oldest farming organization of the country has elected a woman managing director, following the departure of ...

BROWN & ROOT-CONDOR, a joint engineering venture between Sonatrach and the U.S. firm Brown & Root, an affiliate of Halliburton, posted net earnings of 1.9 billion dinar in 2001. Headed by Abdelmoumen ...

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 ...

Kenya's former secretary to the government and head of the Kenyan civil service (until unexpectedly replaced by Dr. Richard Leakey in July) took up his new functions this week as Kenyan permanent ...

Cone Textiles, Zimbabwe's major textile producing firm which went into liquidation on orders of the high court last year (ION N° 648), may return to operations thanks to bids made by two South African ...

After pledging to finance military equipment for the country's army and training 300 of its gendarmes, the European Union may provide training for forest rangers in the Comoé National Park who face ...

The junta suspected that Baykar had overcharged for the contract and wanted to avoid negotiating directly with the Erdogan family. It then tried to put in an order with Malhat, an offshoot of the UAE ...