Maputo is to host the 4th summit of the 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states on 23 and 24 [...]
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French president Jacques Chirac will go to Madagascar in mid March to take part in the summit of Heads of [...]
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The trade negotiations between the USA and the South African Customs Union (SACU, comprising South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and [...]
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The South African investment fund Business Partners, specialised in lending to small and medium businesses, is to open its premises [...]
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Joaquim Chissano has publicly declared that the Frelimo (government) candidate for the forthcoming presidential election, Armando Guebuza, is, like himself, [...]
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An American report expresses concern about the ?sleeping giants? such as Kenya which are weakening and produce risks for the security of the USA.
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The Assembly of the Union was finally opened on 4 June. It was dominated by Members from the islands, who shared out the key functions.
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The president of MDC (opposition) is trying to put his party's house in order before its conference in December and the elections next year.
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The legal problems in Dar es-Salaam of the director of a Kenyan company are the effect of a conflict between two Tanzanian ministers.
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A new generation of entrepreneurs is beginning to emerge in Madagascar, formed by the heirs of well known family groups [...]
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The magnate Mohamed al Amoudi has just invested in quick succession in oil distribution, the textile and security sectors.
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While Maputo is negotiation with an Indian consortium for the Beira railway concession, the World Bank is readying a major finance package for its renovation.
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South African firms are making the most of the economic crisis in Zimbabwe to buy up local companies in difficulties at bargain prices.
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Two contracts for offshore exploration in Tanzania have just been signed in quick succession in the last few days. To [...]
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Barclays Bank has been noticed in London for its positive discrimination programme. It has in fact been practicing Africanisation of [...]
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The Kenyan government is considering closing the refinery in Mombasa, in view of the amount of investment that would be [...]
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The Ugandan government has just re-introduced tax holidays for three to five years for investors wanting to build factories manufacturing [...]
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The company which operates the northern part of the Madagascan railway network, a subsidiary of Comazar, part of the Bolloré group, is in difficulty.
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Contrary to what the government had hoped, the deregulation of oil distribution will not curb the rise in price of gas.
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The new CEO of the South African Bureau of Standard (SABS) will take up his functions on 14 June. Martin [...]
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The number three of the Malagasy gendarmerie has just presented his thesis in literature at the Reunion Island university, on [...]
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Born in 1954 of Nelson Mandela's first marriage, with Evelyn Mase (first cousin of Walter Sisulu, who died on 30 [...]
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The speaker of the new Assembly of the Union of the Comoros is an MP from Mohéli who was an [...]
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The Malagasy government is currently considering the accreditation of the future non-resident Moroccan ambassador to Antananarivo. Mohamed Amar has been [...]
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The European Union (EU) agreed aid last year for Madagascar's [...]
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President Yoweri Museveni who has just taken over from the [...]
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The seventh meeting this week of defence ministers of the [...]
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Whereas President Thabo Mbeki is striving to ring the praises [...]
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The Kenyan minister of national security, Chris Murungaru has recently [...]
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The recent signature of the last three peace agreements between [...]
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The American firm Abbott Laboratories is investing $25 million in [...]
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The British press group The Economist is organising a panel [...]
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Ahmed Areita Ali has just been appointed roving ambassador to [...]
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General Derrick Mgwebi is the first South African to run [...]
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Muhammad Abdiqadir Muhammed Yarow, Consul General of Somalia to Dubai, [...]
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Klaus Peter Treydte has just left his function of resident [...]
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The Associaçao Moçambicana de Economistas (Amecon) has a new president [...]
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