Aware of his reputation as an Islamist in certain Western circles, President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi took advantage of his inauguration ceremony to give the message that he is a moderate and a reformer. He undertook to respect the constitution [.
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The Sudan government signed a ten point agreement in Asmara on 25 May with an executive of the East Sudan [...]
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A first in Antananarivo: a delegation of five Turkish companies has gone to Madagascar to prospect the market. The firm [...]
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The darling of the opinion polls for next year’s presidential election, Kalonzo Musyoka, is being put into a minority within [...]
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Vice President Joyce Mujuru has called on the Attorney General to intervene in her attempt to bring to heel the ministers who resist her by building up cases against them.
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The number of members of President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi’s staff is almost as high as the small number of members in his government.
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The former Ambassador to Ethiopia is tipped to become honorary consul in Turkey. However, the final decision rests on President Marc Ravalomanana.
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The ANC leadership has confirmed that the choice of a successor to Thabo Mbeki will be made by the regional branches of the party. This brings Jacob Zuma back into the race for the presidency.
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After launching the Whatana Investment Group (WIG) with Nuno Quelhas, Malengane Machel, son of the late President Samora Machel, last [...]
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A project to use the Mchuchuma coal reserves to generate electricity is dividing opinion in the Tanzanian administration.
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Some Tanzanian employees of a maritime logistics company have accused the company’s executives of racial discrimination.
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The Iranian-American who is advising the Djibouti President on international investments, is working with a former USAID official.
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Environmental impact analysis, updating its feasibility study, making contact with local firms: Dynatec is steaming ahead with the preparations for its vast project to work nickel at Ambatovy.
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While the Rogers group is to represent Air India in Mauritius, one of its subsidiaries is to open a bureau in India in October.
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Now that the 18 month contract awarded to the Houston based firm Richmond Development Co (RDC) for a feasibility study [...]
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The Danish International Development Assistance (Danida) has pre-qualified six consulting firms for a technical assistance contract as part of its [...]
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The government of Harare is concerned that the country’s gold production had dropped by one third in the first quarter [...]
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The Middle East Container Repair Company (MECRC) has just formed a joint venture with the port of Djibouti, called Djibouti [...]
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The new US Ambassador to Djibouti is from a well known Missouri Democrat family. He is the grandson of William [...]
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The Ambassador of Mauritius to Egypt, Somduth Soborun, has left Cairo to go to New York, as his country’s permanent [...]
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The former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mozambique, Frances Rodrigues is to go to Europe for her come-back to [...]
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Since the Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD) was created by several Ethiopian opposition groups, the Coalition for Unity and [...]
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The African Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is to hold [...]
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Africa Journal, the journal of the American employers’ organisation Corporate [...]
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The new Administration in the Comoros will have to open [...]
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The United States Ambassador to Eritrea, Scott H. DeLisi, did [...]
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Under pressure from disgruntled policemen and the opposition dominated Parliament [...]
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The Thai firm Tusco Trafo Co, created in 1981, based [...]
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Monja Roindefo Zafitsimilavo, the son of the well-known Malagasy nationalist [...]
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Kamal Taposeea, the former managing director of Barclays Maurice, the [...]
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Egypt has a new Ambassador in Somalia: Isma’il Sa’id Mursi, [...]
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The former Speaker of the Ethiopian Parliament, Dawit Yohannes, has [...]
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Maged Maher Abdel-Rahman, a former counsellor to the Africa bureau [...]
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Bernard Omach Obola, the commandant of the Junior Command and [...]
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Martin Owor, the Disaster Management Focal Point of the Ugandan [...]
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The former minister Iddi Simba has joined the board of [...]
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