While his wife Sarah lived in Tanzania for several years during her childhood, the new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is not particularly keen on Africa. He has only visited the continent twice during the whole of the ten years [.
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The Ethiopian government has just disclosed the names of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebel leaders who were captured a [...]
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A radar surveillance station under construction since last year came discreetly into service in the North of Madagascar at the [...]
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In spite of the initial denials by representatives of the Ethiopian government that such negotiations were taking place, the majority [...]
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One of the nephews of President Armando Guebuza (the son of his late elder brother) has just formed a partnership [...]
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The minister of education and scientific research has changed his public relations team following a misunderstanding with one of his assistants.
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Going against the wishes of the Malagasy President, the general secretaries have not all been hired by open tender.
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Saïd Larifou has taken the lead of a handful of former ministers who want the President of the Union to go.
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The Criminal Investigation Department of the Kenyan police is taking an interest in the head of a printing company in Nairobi because of his ties with Somalia.
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The man at the heart of the "miracle baby" scandal has gone to live in the United Kingdom, from where he will start preaching via a satellite radio station.
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The Nobel peace prize laureate has formed a new political party with a view to joining an election coalition to enable her to keep her seat as an MP.
The Seychelles National Assembly this week approved the appointment of two new ambassadors.
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The director of the press company Le Mauricien, Jacques Rivet, wrote to The Indian Ocean Newsletteron 29 June in response [...]
This company which produces advertising features is pulling out all [...]
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A consortium of three companies has just obtained a contract [...]
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The small Kenyan airline based in Wilson airport has just [...]
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The deputy chairman of this American consulting company based in [...]
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This new Seychelles air transport company has had delivery of [...]
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This company concluded a deal with the South African firm [...]
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The shareholders of this Tanzanian company have filed a complaint [...]
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The Commission de Supervision Bancaire et Financière (CSBF), whose chairman [...]
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has once again disclaimed the State Department (ION 1210) in the case referred to it [...]
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Several companies have formed subsidiaries in Maputo to go into the market for producing biofuels.
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The governor of the central bank may have to shorten his last mandate under the weight of criticism.
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A former Mozambican Air Force commander is in charge of a newly created air transport company.
The state of friction is at all time high between the executives of the Djibouti-Ethiopia railway and the consortium formed around Comazar.
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The activities of A. J. Shah and his son Sunil do not stop at their chartered accounting practice. They are also very active in the tourist business.
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The former minister for ICT is now acting as a financial advisor.
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The Ethiopian government has just given its agreement to the appointment of a new Belgian ambassador to Addis Ababa. For [...]
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A new British Ambassador in Addis Ababa is to take over from Robert Dewar in January 2008. Norman Arthur Ling [...]
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The new Swedish ambassador to Tanzania, to take up his post next month, is not a career diplomat but a [...]
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The present Swedish Ambassador to Tanzania (see above) is to leave his place to Staffan Herrstrom and become the Ambassador [...]
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The task of implementing the "green revolution" during the next four years will lie with a discreet young company head. [...]
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Colonel Abdou Bacar, chief of the Forces de Gendarmerie d’Anjouan (FGA) and brother of the President of Anjouan Mohamed Bacar, [...]
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The wife of the former South African President Nelson Mandela has been appointed non-executive director of a company registered in [...]
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These last few months, Colonel Abdillahi Abdi Farah, chief of [...]
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On 5 July 2007, the French Socialist Senator, Bernard Piras, [...]
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The Minister for Foreign Affairs Marcel Ranjeva received an urgent [...]
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The First Counsellor of the Malagasy embassy in Russia, André [...]
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According to several diplomatic sources in Moroni, the African countries [...]
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The Malagasy Minister for Justice Lala Ratsiharivala is examining the [...]
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The managing director of the Seychelles Broadcasting Corp (SBC, parastatal) [...]
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The preparation of a Europe-Africa Summit in Lisbon at the [...]
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