Trip to Paris in early December to meet with President Nicolas Sarkozy, an invitation last weekend to attend the anniversary of the ANC in South Africa along with Heads of State: the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), [.
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has quietly cancelled the visit he had planned to make to Kenya and Uganda [...]
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The short piece we published in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION 1324) last week outlining how the South Korean company [...]
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According to a ministerial source in Port Louis, the Mauritian government has invited a representative of Madagascar to attend the [...]
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Security during the regional elections is too important a matter for President Ismail Omar Guelleh to leave to his minister for home affairs.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s advisors are trying by all possible ways to find out what will be contained in a book that one of their former colleagues is planning to publish.
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Two generals that President Yoweri Museveni has just redeployed were not appreciated by the United States, which plays a leading role in the fight against the LRA.
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Hassan Omar Hassan will not be on Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s campaign team after he leaves the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
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The President of Puntland has hired a new American lobbyist on security and counter-piracy issues.
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President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud has appointed a young officer trained in an Ethiopian military academy to head the intelligence services.
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The disagreements between President Andry Rajoelina and Prime Minister Omer Beriziky continue to accumulate.
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The oil distribution companies have gone to war against the proposals by Kenya Petroleum Refineries (KPRL), owned in equal shares [...]
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The ban on flights by aircraft owned by the two inter-island airlines has produced a vacuum that the small charter firm Inter Iles Air wants to fill.
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British American Investment’s CEO Saleem Beebeejaun would no longer seem to suit the requirements of the group’s majority shareholder, his uncle Dawood Rawat.
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A report by the Ethiopian company Access Capital goes against the government line and calls for the privatisation of several State companies.
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Rift Valley Railways (RVR) CEO Brown Odengo’s political affinity to Prime Minister Raila Odinga has attracted the wrath of some of the company’s shareholders.
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In spite of insisting strongly, the State representative at the Galana refinery terminal did not obtain the increased dividends she was asking for.
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The Ethiopian ministry of agriculture is against the firm Karuturi’s plan to install thousands of Indian farmers in land it has leased in the Gambela region.
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The time is right to buy companies in debt. Some time ago, Ylias Akbaraly followed up his purchase of two hotels by acquiring a publishing company in trouble.
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The France-Madagascar and Indian Ocean parliamentary friendship group of the French Senate is temporarily without a chairman. The reason is [...]
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The ever-present CEO of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), Stella Kilonzo, who has been officially in the post since 2008 [...]
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The CEO of the Public Utilities Co (PUC, State-owned), Robert Stravens has just been sacked after being in the post [...]
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The ambassador that the Israeli government has just appointed to South Sudan is a seasoned diplomat. Haim Koren, in his [...]
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The President of Gambela Regional State in the western part of the country, Umod Ubong, is like a cat on [...]
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The London based Eastern Africa Association (EAA), which gathers representatives [...]
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The members of the Communication Workers Union of Kenya (COWU-K) [...]
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The former Mauritian Ambassador in Brussels and current advisor to [...]
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. The British think tank Chatham House published a report [...]
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. President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) of Djibouti took all [...]
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. The level of abstention will be the most significant [...]
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Published last month, but only became available in the United [...]
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The company Stereau, an engineering subsidiary of the French group [...]
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A new company in Antananarivo, Madagascar, the subsidiary of the [...]
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One of the oldest construction companies in Kenya, TM AM [...]
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The law firm launched last year to defend Mau Mau [...]
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The Korean company Daewoo Logistics Corporation has acquired all the [...]
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Jean-Michel Giraud, the head of the Mauritian company United Basalt [...]
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After the company NCT Necotrans created AMT Mozambique last year, [...]
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The Portuguese group Visabeira is putting a major effort in [...]
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The Canadian junior mining company Allana Potash Corp has decided [...]
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