With relations between the Tanzanian authorities and Western businesses already strained (ION 1456) due to a series of legal disputes (ION 1459), the highly nationalist president John Magufuli has now taken it upon himself to impose his own vision of [.
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Attracted by the business opportunities in Ethiopia, the mullahs are actively seeking to counter Egyptian, UAE and Saudi influence and expand their own interests in east Africa.
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Uhuru Kenyatta is re-elected with 98% of the votes, but the opposition is refusing to recognise the result. Unwilling to compromise, each party is making its own plans.
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The health minister and son-in-law of President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG), Djama Elmi Okieh, known as Djama Speed, is at [...]
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The opening on 26 October of the workshop to report back on the findings of the interministerial committee in charge [...]
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General Julio dos Santos Jane, who has taken over as the head of the intelligence service Servico de Informacao e [...]
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The death of the former Madagascan president Albert Zafy on 13 October has prompted a number of the country's politicians [...]
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On 13 October, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo received a high-ranking delegation from Uganda, Ethiopia and Djibouti – three of [...]
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According to our information, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has pledged to abolish the Special Police Forces, which are run by [...]
According to our sources, the Mozambican president took the decision [...]
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The president of the Supreme Court, David Maraga, took advantage [...]
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Djibouti's ambassador in Paris, Ayeid Mousseid Yahya, returned home at [...]
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The Principal Secretary at the ministry of the interior, Karanja [...]
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Somali and Somaliland representatives gathered in Addis Ababa on 16 [...]
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According to our information, the army chief of staff, General [...]
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The governors of Kitui, Charity Ngilu, and Makueni, Kibutha Kibwana, [...]
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In early October, Yoweri Museveni forged a tribal alliance between [...]
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The defence minister and son-in-law of the first lady Kadra [...]
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The Ugandan energy sector is attracting capital investment from the Arabian peninsula, causing concern in the region…
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The Canadian company is still claiming $38 million from the Tanzanian authorities.
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Two members of the Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association (USM) cartel have suffered financial losses of over $35.5 million, according to [...]
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The leader of the Mouvement pour le renouveau democratique et le developpement (MRD), Daher Ahmed Farah, known as DAF, is [...]
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According to information obtained by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) has definitively rejected [...]
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At a time when the country's energy needs are increasing, largely on account of the expansion of its port zone, a Chinese energy project has been rejected.
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According to our information, two former High Court judges who [...]
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Just a few months after setting up PGW Services (catering, [...]
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Following the launch in 2012 of the European Union Business [...]
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On 23 October, Ismail Omar Guelleh encouraged delegates from the [...]
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Following our article ‘The French hotel chain Onomo heads east', [...]
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The Tanzanian media are forever living on the edge, so [...]
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Morocco's Banque centrale populaire (BCP), headed by Mohamed Benchaaboun, is [...]
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The South African retailing giant Shoprite is preparing to acquire [...]
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The lawyer Paul Mwangi, who is the legal adviser to [...]
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According to our information, something of an imbroglio has arisen [...]
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The purge within the EPRDF, which is being overseen by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, has just claimed a new victim: [...]
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On 26 October, the national secretary responsible for youth, employment and sport of the president's Rassemblement populaire pour le progres [...]
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To refill the empty coffers at the state electricity company Jirama, its chief executive Aime Olivier Jaomiary has recruited a [...]
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A close ally of Uhuru Kenyatta for several years, the Ugandan David Matsanga has again been solicited by the Kenyan [...]
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