In the minds of those who brokered the 2005 peace agreement, the national election in April 2010 should have had a calming effect ahead of the South Sudan self-determination referendum in 2011. This scenario has now gone adrift, because there [.
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The former chargée d’affaires of the French embassy in Antananarivo, Marie Claire Girardin, who acted as interim ambassador for several [...]
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Uhuru Kenyatta, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, has declared war against Prime Minister Raila Odinga, in order to defend his privileges.
Negotiations are under way for a ten year renewal of the lease for the Italian space station at Malindi.
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Some new trade attachés and tourism “ambassadors” have been designated to attract new visitors.
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The control of the new government publication Kenya Today is at the centre of a battle between two heavyweights in the ministry for information.
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French law does not yet authorise private military companies. A small firm has therefore devised a system enabling it to act from abroad.
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The President of the Comoros is still looking out for the right time to replace the head of the AND.
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The minister for foreign affairs has resigned, due to his disagreement with the President of the High Authority.
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As The Indian Ocean Newsletterdisclosed last week (see alert sent on 05 February 2010), the largest hydro-electric dam in Ethiopia, [...]
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Three new banks, two of which are run under Islamic principles, are soon to open their doors in Djibouti city.
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A Chinese company is extracting its revenge in Dar es Salaam after it was penalised in Brussels due to a complaint from Smiths Heimann.
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The son of Francisco Pateguana, the former governor of Inhambane, has just founded several companies.
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The security firm G4S which has been the victim of several thefts, is to restructure its top executive in Nairobi.
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French firms vary in their reaction to the crisis, depending on their sector of activity and how long they have been in operation.
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A Chinese company is planning to build the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation House in Dar es Salaam through the help of a loan from the IFC.
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Xavier-Luc Duval presented Virgin Atlantic’s service to Mauritius as a personal triumph. He is now embarrassed because this service is to be suspended.
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The deputy director of the security firm Geos Europe has all the zeal of a man who is new to [...]
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A new mission has just been confided to General Elly Tumwine as part of a programme to restructure the operation [...]
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The head of the Office Malgache de la Régularisation des Télécommunications (OMERT), Gilbert Tahitsy, has so far been unlucky in [...]
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While his uncle Armando Guebuza was being re-elected President of Mozambique last year, Daude Idrisse Nhaca Guebuza was busy attending [...]
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The Canadian Minister for Transport, John Baird, went on a lightning visit to Addis Ababa on 10 February to meet [...]
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The chairman of the Africa committee of Medef International and [...]
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The creation of a Masonic NGO was announced during the [...]
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The Ethiopian government is currently negotiating with donors about its [...]
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Re-elected in the September 2009 election, but without a majority [...]
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The minister for youth and sport, who is a friend [...]
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It was in vain that the Comorian Minister for Foreign [...]
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The Alliance Républicaine pour le Développement (ARD, the political party [...]
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A representative of the President of the High Authority for [...]
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The managing director for exploration and production of Total in [...]
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The large Nigerian bank United Bank for Africa (UBA) is [...]
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Blair Harden, the present managing director of HSBC Bank (Mauritius), [...]
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The Yemeni group chaired by Ahmed Saleh Al-Essi is to [...]
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The company specialised in steel roofing and building structures, Safintra [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter in [...]
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The Canadian mining company Nevsun Resources has had to resort [...]
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The company Monte Binga (named after the country’s highest mountain) [...]
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The energy crisis in Zanzibar, which has been subject to [...]
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The head of Bidco Oil Refineries in Kenya, Vimal Shah, [...]
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