A new activity is starting to make a splash, as a consequence of the rise in the price of cereals on the world market and the dearth of agricultural land in many countries: outsourcing food production.
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Madagascar will host the 33d Journées maçonniques de l'Océan indien [...]
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The former President Didier Ratsiraka has decided to take control of the game, after spending time in the political doldrums [...]
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During his trip to the United States at the end of September, the Ugandan President argued the case for an independent South Sudan with the Americans.
The chairman of Comoro Gulf Holding has launched a daily newspaper in Mayotte, making waves in Moroni.
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President Ismail Omar Guelleh is worried because his rival Abdourahman Boreh has rallied to the opposition.
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has made quite a few changes to his government team. However, the majority were promotions for his most loyal allies.
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The Ethiopian Prime Minister is negociating with ONLF dissidents in order to undermine the rebel movement’s influence in the south east of the country.
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The Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College has published a study examining the Somalian Islamist group's weak spots and how to exploit them.
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President Armando Guebuza was obliged to cancel some of the price increases that his government had just decreed following the [...]
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An agreement is looming ahead between the transition government and Nouvelle Brasserie de Madagascar (NBM) to let it begin production (ION 1266).
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The firm at the cutting edge of solar energy Séchilienne Sidec will suffer from the new regulations in this sector.
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OrPower 4 Inc, which has been an independent power producer in the country for 10 years, is negotiating an extension of its licence for a further 14 years.
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The owners of a small bank that had to close its doors in 2006 following accusations of tax evasion are hoping to open it again next year.
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Two ministers in the new Hargeisa government are fighting over the revenues from the port – something that doesn’t suit the Bolloré group’s plans.
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The Lagesse family, the lead shareholder in the Naide group, has placed Paul Jones at the group’s head, thereby ridding itself of Patrice Hardy.
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The time is not ripe to put oil prospecting blocks up for sale, but work is continuing on those already attributed.
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The person who was Roland Ratsiraka’s campaign manager for the December 2006 presidential election has taken up service again for [...]
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The former United Kingdom Ambassador to Sudan, Rosalind Marsden, who is now the European Union (EU) representative to Khartoum, had [...]
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The managing editor and columnist in the Kenyan daily The Standard, Oketch Kendo contacted The Indian Ocean Newsletter this week [...]
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Hersi Ali Hassan, the chief of staff to President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo, is a controversial person because [...]
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A lawyer by training and a member of the Mouvement Socialiste Militant (MSM, part of the governing coalition), Ravi Yerrigadoo, [...]
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The Frenchman Jérôme Leyraud and the American Darren S. Nance will play an important role in the independence referendum in [...]
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President Jacob Zuma is to go to France at the [...]
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The finance manager of the Internet company Moov (part of [...]
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So far, only Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has publicly disclosed [...]
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The former director general of the Somaliland Central Bank, Abdul [...]
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The TV production studio Compagnie des Phares et Balises has [...]
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In spite of, or perhaps because of, his success at [...]
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The head of the unit for crisis prevention and exist [...]
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During the recent United Nations general Assembly, President Ahmed Abdallah [...]
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A rather original company has just been created in the [...]
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According to the annual accounts, presented in Nairobi at the [...]
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Two of the five calls for tender issued by the [...]
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The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) [...]
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The Zimbabwean company Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) has just set [...]
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The property subsidiary of China Railway Jianchang Engineering Co (CRJE) [...]
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One of the largest steel producers in Kenya is looking [...]
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The public trading company Uchumi Supermarkets is involved in a [...]
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The businessman Tewodros Ashenafi has just pulled off a good [...]
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