The idea is starting to take hold that it could be possible for the President of the High Authority for the Transition (HAT) Andry Rajoelina known as TGV and his rival Marc Ravalomanana to not take part in the presidential [.
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Djibouti's ambassador to France, Rachad Farah, has always taken an interest in Unesco, the UN organisation in charge of education. [...]
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The Prime Minister and presidential candidate for the March 2013 election, Raila Odinga, has managed to score some points over [...]
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Two well-known musicians, George Payet and Allen Ernesta, recently joined the list of artists who have left the Seychelles National Party (SNP, opposition).
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Two hundred Afars from Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea or from the Diaspora in Europe and the United States, converged on Brussels to meet from 30 August to 2 September.
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Who will replace Meles Zenawi as head of the EPRDF? This is a question on which the government coalition's executive committee has not been able to agree this week.
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President Armando Guebuza claims that he will respect the constitution that bans him from running for a third mandate. But he will nevertheless keep control of Frelimo.
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The rivalry between Vice President Fouad Mohadji and the entourage of President Ikililou Dhoinine has been festering for months. It is now becoming dangerous.
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The Ugandan and Rwandan armies have just signed an agreement to exchange intelligence on their respective opponents who are active in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The Minister for Special Programmes, Esther Murugi Mathenge, is to join the throng of members of the government who have their own radio station.
The members of the family of the ministers Antonio Fernandes Sumbana (Minister to President Armando Guebuza) and Fernando Sumbana Jr [...]
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The viability of two commercial radio stations due to start broadcasting in 2013 is doubtful, even though the price of their annual licence has been divided by eight.
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The mining company Sherritt International is using the Canadian diplomatic service and private lobbyists to counter the Malagasy government’s claim for $75 million.
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Four Mozambicans from a variety of backgrounds have created a company in Maputo to intermediate between Chinese investors and their local counterparts.
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The decision by Kenya Airways/KLM to dismiss 150 employees against government advice has pushed the latter to seek to control the airline’s management.
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The Algerian group Cevital would really like to take control of a sugar refinery project owned by a Pakistani investor who is encountering problems.
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Herakles Farms, a group acting as a screen company in Africa for the American Blackstone Group, has its sights on a German agriculture company operating in Ethiopia.
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The Bretton Woods institutions are keeping a close eye on the preparations for privatising Comores Telecom while at aslo pushing the Comoros to resist Bashar Kiwan.
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After much hesitation (ION 1326), Jimmy Kibaki, the eldest son of President Mwai Kibaki, finally decided, according to our sources, [...]
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The radio producer and host on Kass FM, a station that broadcasts in the Kalenjin language, Joshua arap Sang, who [...]
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The former Mozambican Minister for Foreign Affairs (2005 – 08) and current Minister for the Environment, Alcinda Abreu, has just [...]
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Azeb Mesfin gave an inkling of her ambitions, speaking at the funeral of her husband Meles Zenawi on 2 September. [...]
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Exit Roger Auque, the journalist and former hostage in Lebanon whom President Nicolas Sarkozy had appointed Ambassador to Eritrea. He [...]
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The head of the civil service, Francis Kimemia, is in a spot of bother. He recently informed President Mwai Kibaki [...]
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The members of the family of the late President Samora [...]
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Within the hard core of the Ethiopian power circles, the [...]
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Ex-President Nelson Mandela is now living with his family as [...]
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The Imam of the Mutsamudu Grand Mosque on the island [...]
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Several of the candidates running for President in Somalia hold [...]
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The President of the High Authority for the Transition (HAT), [...]
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The murder of Sheikh Yunusu Abubakari, the head of the [...]
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The Indian company Eagle Press Private (EPPL), a subsidiary of [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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The Russian entrepreneur Evgeny Plekhanov is hard put to find [...]
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Things do not seem to be going at all well [...]
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A group of young Mozambican entrepreneurs has just created a [...]
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The British oil company Genel Energy is taking an interest [...]
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The former mayor of Mahajanga (on the east coast of [...]
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The company Mediamax owned by the family of Deputy Prime [...]
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Rui Brito Gamito, the son of the former Minister for [...]
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The Indian businessman Manoj Kumar Vasudev Sompura has just founded [...]
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