There is little enthusiasm among Madagascans for the forthcoming presidential election on 3 December, particularly as the outgoing President Marc Ravalomanana appears to be sure to win. However, discontent with his regime is growing, particularly in Antananarivo, and a number [.
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The preparations for an international peace-keeping mission to Darfur (Sudan) under the umbrella of the United Nations (UN) to take [...]
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The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) has initiated an action plan for the period 2006-2010 to expand trade between its Member [...]
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President Moammar Gadhafi of Libya is to go to Uganda at the beginning of October. He will take advantage of [...]
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The Ministers of Transport of the governments of the autonomous islands of Ngazidja (Cheikh Ali Bakari Kassim) and Anjouan (Moutouroifi [...]
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The minister of finance and the governor of the central bank have confronted each other in Harare over the forthcoming visit by IMF experts.
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The Ethiopian army, judiciary and diplomatic corps are still subject to numerous defections of employees and officials who go into exile to the United States.
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The first Kenyan bank to be run under the financial principles of Sharia (no interest taken on loans) is to [...]
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A new deputy director has taken up his functions at Jirama, completing the triumvirate of Lahmeyer International which runs the Malagasy water and electricity utility company.
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A British computer company is planning to get into mineral prospecting by acquiring a local mining firm.
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The European pharmaceuticals group has founded a South African subsidiary in partnership with a black economic empowerment group.
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The South African company Arelco has now become the majority partner in the Comazar consortium which is to run the Djibouti-Ethiopian railway.
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Navin Ramgoolam has approved the purchase of Airbus planes by Air Mauritius, albeit with some modifications, even though he had been a scathing critic of it while he was in opposition.
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The Indian branch of the American public relations firm Edelman has been chosen by the Association of Offshore Management Companies [...]
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The American company TTT-Wilma is working with the Tanzanian National Investments Co (Nico) to form a joint venture called Tanzania [...]
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The Anglo-Danish company specialising in security and logistics, Group 4 Securicor Plc (G4S), has just acquire 50% of the Mozambican [...]
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Three South African investors headed by the American Robert Muller, former manager of the Intercontinental hotel in Nairobi, are planning [...]
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The new Ambassador of Sudan to France has already spent a year on post in Paris after finishing his higher [...]
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President Thabo Mbeki's present head of public relations is to leave his post as from 1 November, to become the [...]
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The former chief of staff of the Ugandan Prime Minsiter, George Kagonyera Mondo was to have been one of the [...]
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One of Jacques Sylla’s former ministers has for several weeks taken up the function of general advisor to the Minister [...]
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The United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded [...]
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The Irish company Trade Development Centre (TDC) is organising its [...]
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The French organisation for the support of export activity Ubifrance [...]
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One of the many younger brothers of President Ismaïl Omar [...]
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The government of the Union of the Comoros did not [...]
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An Ethiopian journalist working for Maebel Weekly and living in [...]
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The American firm DORS Inc., headed by Joseph Dorfler, a [...]
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The British firm Albany Associates, specialised in media activities in [...]
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The German firm Aviareps has increased its services to Ethiopian [...]
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The Vice President of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) [...]
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After being in the post for a year, Alfred Juma [...]
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has just appointed a new Minister [...]
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The number two of the French economic mission to Ethiopia, [...]
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