After wining the contracts to run the railways in Madagascar, Kenya and Uganda, more recently in Ethiopia/Djibouti (ION 1173), the Comazar consortium has the wind in its sails. Notwithstanding that its largest shareholder (47%), the South African firm Sheltam, is [.
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A young French consultant, Laurent Obadia, aged 34, has been acting as advisor at the Mauritius embassy in Paris for [...]
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Alarmed by the growing invasion of the Kenyan market by products imported from Egypt, the executives of the Kenya Association [...]
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The special representative of the President of the African Union (AU), the Mozambican Francisco Madeira, proceeded on 30 March, on [...]
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Disappointed by the broken promises of President Mwai Kibaki’s government concerning social justice, a group of intellectuals and former student [...]
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The Amhara National Democratic Movement is still subject to internal division, as became apparent during a recent meeting of its officials.
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A handful of independent groups have made inroads in the regional and local elections, at the expense of parties in the governing coalition.
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The post of Ambassador to the European Union, which was declined by Sylvestre Radegonde, has finally been attributed to the MP Barry Faure.
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A group of Ethiopian opponents supported by Eritrea and in favour of armed struggle has embarked on an advertising campaign using the Internet.
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A dispute has pitted the promoters of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) project against the World Bank over [...]
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The Prime Minister has threatened to ban the import of oil products via the country’s second port to fight tax evasion.
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The new generation of businessmen in the Currimjee family does not hesitate to position itself at the head of the employers’ associations on the island.
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A new company has been formed to take advantage of the failure of Kenya Bus Services (KBS) and will operate an intercity bus service.
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An Australian naturalised Indonesian is trying to persuade Jirama to use Madagascan coal reserves to generate electricity.
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A third "scoundrel" has joined in the conflict between Total and White Nile for block B.
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The ICAO has caught the Seychelles civil aviation authority out over the registration of foreign aircraft.
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Henri Fraise, the chairman of the board of Brasseries Star, has written to The Indian Ocean Newsletter to state that [...]
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The South African Jaco Badenhorst, in charge of the mining company Kumba Ressources and in particular of its Toliara Sands [...]
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A services and global solutions company in information technology, based in South Africa, has just set up in Kenya and [...]
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The American subsidiary of the British firm Ove Arup & Partners Consultings Inc. is to carry out a study of [...]
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Mejamirado Razafihary, the former Minister of Industrialisation, Trade and Development of the Private sector, who currently runs the parastatal firm [...]
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Walter Johannes Lindner with his pony tail hardly looks like a traditional diplomat. And yet, at 49, this new German [...]
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Kassahun Ayele, the Ethiopian Ambassador to Washington and former Minister for Trade and Industry has been recalled to Addis Ababa [...]
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The director general of Celtel in Burkina Faso is soon to take up the helm of Madacom, the mobile telephone [...]
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The new Ambassador of Uganda to Tanzania, Ibrahim Mukiibi, is indeed a hot-headed character. This career diplomat and former Minister [...]
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The German employers’ organisation Afrika-Verein and the Sudanese Business & [...]
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The Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris (CCIP), along [...]
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The French government organisation for supporting exports, UbiFrance is planning [...]
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Already a shareholder in the firm MJ3 Lagoas Lda (ION [...]
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The businessman Riaz Barday is expected to settle back in [...]
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A former minister, Nando Bodha, secretary general of Pravind Jugnauth’s [...]
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A first: an Egyptian firm specialised in engineering is contemplating [...]
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The firm Multiconsult Ltd, linked to the De Chazal Du [...]
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The South African shipping company Grindrod which had had the [...]
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German Zurita y Sáenz de Navarrete has just been appointed [...]
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The new Secretary General of the East Africa Community (EAC) [...]
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Vicente Buinia Veloso, the former director general of the parastatal [...]
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The chargé d'affaires at the Eritrean embassy in Paris has [...]
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