A full week of violent riots in several towns throughout the country against the reduction in subsidies to oil products demanded by the IMF at the end of September was all that was needed to smash to smithereens the illusion [.
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After President Ismaël Omar Guelleh (IOG) flatly refused the appeal made to him on 14 September by the opposition coalition [...]
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The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) is to pull out all the stops to supervise the presidential election in [...]
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It all got off to a good start for the dozen or so heads of companies accompanying French President François [...]
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The Indian Ocean Newsletter has learnt in Nairobi that President Uhuru Kenyatta is to call a meeting at the State [...]
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The candidate of the African continent and the southern countries, Rachad Farah, did not manage to beat Irina Bokova. The [...]
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A high level Mozambican delegation recently went quietly to Monaco to prepare the financial set-up for ordering boats from France.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta is caught between his political friends who are pushing him to boycott the ICC and his lawyers who tell him he has a strong case.
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Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn should soon be undertaking a mini-reshuffle of his government team – the third since he took up his post.
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Francophile and a supporter of the ruling French Socialist Party, Jean Louis Robinson is the Malagasy presidential candidate backed by the Francophobe Marc Ravalomanana.
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Five months into her job, Defence Minister Raychelle Omamo is still snubbed by the military leaders and is wondering whether she should resign.
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Since he was elected governor of Nairobi, Evans Kidero has moved closer to President Uhuru Kenyatta and distanced himself from the opponent Raila Odinga.
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The businessman Abdourahman Boreh is in court in Dubai, at the request of the Djibouti authorities.
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The children of Marina Pachinuapa and retired General Raimundo Domingos Pachinuapa, two former combatants in the war for independence who [...]
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After the disagreement about the block boundaries, Total is now battling with Juba about the renewal of its EPSA.
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The State-owned firm Empresa Moçambicana de Exploração Mineira (EMEM) has formed a joint venture with a Ugandan company to produce and sell cement.
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Vice President Fouad Mohadji's recent loss of the energy and production portfolios has already impacted a company with which he had signed a contract.
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Consultations are under way to find a successor to Yandraduth Googoolye as deputy governor of the Bank of Mauritius.
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Since it acquired 41% of Dashen Brewery last year, the British Duet Group has not found it easy to work with its Ethiopian partner.
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The government will rely on coal to fire its electricity power plant in its plan to triple capacity to 5000 MW by 2017, as it is cheaper than geothermal power.
The Comoros Central Bank forecasts that GDP will be up 3.5% in 2013, compared to 3% last year and inflation will fall to 4.1%, compared to 6.2% in 2012.
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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is building up a case against James Oswago, the chief executive of the Independent [...]
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After considering all the options open to her after Qatar Airways closed its offices in the Seychelles, Rose-Marie Hoareau, the [...]
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The Ethiopian ambassador to France, Teshome Toga (ION 1296) has been transferred to Brussels, where he will soon go to [...]
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The southerner and former Speaker of the Ethiopian Federal Parliament, Teshome Toga, appointed ambassador to France in 2010 (read here) [...]
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A new Masonic obedience was consecrated on the island of Rodrigues on 5 October, called Grande Loge de l’Océan Indien [...]
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The executive director of the National Construction Authority (NCA), Daniel Manduku, is already working hard to try to keep his [...]
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Lucio Antonio Fernandes Sumbana, one of the executive directors of [...]
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Former President Didier Ratsiraka has already been on interviewed at [...]
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The opponent Ralph Volcere has been unable to legalise his [...]
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After three Ethiopian businessmen were arrested for corruption a few [...]
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The forthcoming trip by French President François Hollande and his [...]
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The agents of the National Security Intelligence Services (NSIS) are [...]
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The Zanzibar government’s decision to issue an international call for [...]
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The new joint venture between Société Internationale des Hydrocarbures de [...]
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A new mining exploration company has just been founded called [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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After creating its own Guinness beer distribution company at the [...]
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Two subsidiaries of the French arm of the American company [...]
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The announcement in August by the national airline Ethiopian Airlines [...]
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The World Bank is still pushing for the privatisation of [...]
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The Mozambican oil and gas sectors are attracting an ever-increasing [...]
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(Somalia) Three companies sponsored an oil conference on Somalia, organised [...]
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A Turkish company based in Ankara and headed by Necati [...]
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