Some major disagreements with two ministers close to President Mwai Kibaki over suspicious contracts in the area of security and defence led the principal secretary in charge of ethics and governance to throw in the towel on 7 February.
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Heather Sonn, CEO of Legae Securities, a broker which is 49% owned by the black women's empowerment investment company Wiphold, [...]
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President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique appointed a new general secretary to the presidency last week at the same time as [...]
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The former Executive Director and Vice President Corporate Affairs of the Anglo American Corporation (AAC), who is to take the [...]
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The present director of the National Productivity & Competiveness Council (NPCC) of Mauritius, Nikhil Treebohun, has been appointed to the [...]
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The financial aid of 85,000 birrs ($9500) from the UK Department For International Development (DFID) to two controversial Ethiopian journalists [...]
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The Ugandan government is planning to open nine diplomatic missions and trade bureaux around the world to increase its economic [...]
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The Kenyan ministry of trade is discussing with its counterpart in Pakistan on the possibility of establishing a preferential trade [...]
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The Djibouti cabinet meeting on 8 February appointed a number of new ambassadors. Youssouf Omar Doualeh (Issa, Odahgob) is no [...]
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Just when a meeting to decide the leaders of the new Eritrean opposition front, a fierce debate has broken out among certain opposition groups.
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The author of one of the biographies on President Thabo Mbeki is already the target of attacks by the ANC before the work has even been published.
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The Second Secretary of the Ethiopian embassy in Moscow took refuge in the USA at the end of 2004.
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An advisor to President Azali has taken the helm of the government weekly Al Watwan.
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President Guebuza has appointed a Minister of Foreign Affairs who is relatively unknown by the foreign embassies and Mozambican diplomats.
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A recent parliamentary report found that shortcomings in the intelligence services is putting the president in danger.
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The Seychelles Tourism Marketing Authority (STMA), created in 1998 to promote the Seychelles abroad, is being replaced by a Seychelles [...]
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The director of MEPZA, an association of companies in the export processing zone, is being ousted by certain of its members.
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An association of British construction companies is organising a prospecting mission to Maputo this week.
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Division within the local administration explains the freezing of mining activity in Eritrea from September 2004 to January 2005.
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The Canadian company Pan African Mining Corporation has just set up a joint venture with Omnis in order to prospect for uranium.
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According to sources close to President Azali, the IMF has finally signed its long awaited monitoring programme with the Comoros.
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The board of the Indian firm Steel Exchange India Ltd (SEIL) took two important decisions to invest in Mauritius at [...]
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The European aeronautic consortium Airbus (80% owned by European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co and 20% by the British BAE [...]
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The negotiations to revise the air traffic agreement between France and Madagascar, held in Antananarivo on 8 and 9 February, [...]
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In June, the British African Business Association (BABA) will take [...]
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The Indian Ocean director of the World Bank, based in [...]
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The Nelson Mandela Institution, officially launched in Abuja (Nigeria) on [...]
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The French Minister of Transport, Gilles de Robien and the [...]
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The appointment of Condoleezza Rice as United States Secretary of [...]
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Changes in Madagascar
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The Tanzanian authorities have offered four uranium prospecting permits to [...]
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The board of Jirama (water and electricity) met on 10 [...]
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Following the resignation last week of the minister of public [...]
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A new Consul General of Eritrea has just presented his [...]
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A new secretary general of the prefecture of Mayotte has [...]
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President Yoweri Museveni has recently designated one of his assistants [...]
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