Brown & Root - Condor Algerie (BRC Algerie), an Algerian affiliate of Haliburton, was the target of an attack in Algiers on Dec.10. A bus carrying the firm’s employees came under gun fire, and one ...

The chairman of Southern Ethiopia Peoples' Democratic Coalition (SEPDC) and National Democratic Coalition (NDC) was elected chairman of the conference for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia, held in ...

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.

After having been replaced by Ibrahim Ahmed Omar as secretary general of Sudan's National Congress (NC) this week, former Speaker of Parliament Hassan Al Turabi broke with the government party to set ...

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 ...

The new United States ambassador in Eritrea is a diplomat with many years of experience in African affairs. Aged 53, Robert Houdek has spent more than thirty years in the foreign service. His first ...

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 ...