Although it is fully supported by the international community, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has not been able to impose its power beyond a section of Mogadishu and its close suburbs. In spite of announcements made in the media by [.
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The President for transition, Andry Rajoelina, known as TGV, arrived [...]
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Paris and Washington are getting more set in their respective [...]
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The presidential aeroplane taking President Nicolas Sarkozy back to Paris [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletterin Antananarivo, two ministers in the present Malagasy government are in the [...]
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Rebel presence in the northern part of the country is difficult to evaluate. But the authorities take its danger very seriously. No doubt they have political motives in the backs of their minds!
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Meles Zenawi does not want a rerun of the 2005 election, when the EPRDF was strongly contested.
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Two weeks after the events, President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi asked for an investigation on the army's repression of the post-election troubles on the island of Anjouan.
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President Mwai Kibaki’s son is making a haphazard entry onto the political stage. His Simama Youth Initiative wants a standard bearer for the 2012 presidential election.
Relations between President Yoweri Museveni and Vice President Gilbert Bukenya have always been difficult. The last few weeks they got even worse.
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The European Council of Foreign Ministers may give its green light to the EUTRA-Somalia operation at its meeting on 25 and 26 January. Or the following month.
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The seats of two of the directors on the Kenya Power & Lighting Co (KPLC) board were not renewed at [...]
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The BAI group wants to launch a daily newspaper before the next general election. No doubt to back the outgoing government coalition.
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Like two previous initiatives last year, the Economic Forum for the Comoros held in Kuwait this week, is the work of Bashar Kiwan.
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Bruno Colombo, the head of the Italian tour operator Viaggi del Ventaglio, is trying to put his company under bankruptcy protection.
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Bogged down in the management of the railways in Kenya and Uganda, the South African company Sheltam is having trouble paying for the locomotives it is leasing.
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The political crisis has had many victims among the island's companies, even obliging some of them to close their doors. We take a look at a selection of them.
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Complying with IMF requests, the government has for the first time carried out an audit of the armed forces accounts. It revealed some unorthodox practices.
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The former Prime Minister of the Comoros, Moroni-born Hamada Madi "Bolero", could soon be going to Georgia at the invitation [...]
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Speaking in an interview on the national television channel, which was subsequently published in Arabic on January 9 in the [...]
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The general manager of the PR agency Toowell, Ando Parson, which had acquired the daily newspaper Madagascar Tribuneat the end [...]
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If Jeanne Davidson Raolimalala, 54, was last year appointed chair of the board of the State-owned mining company Kraomita Malagasy [...]
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Pressure by the opposition parties and the Seychelles Bar Association (SBA) for a Seychelles judge to be appointed to the [...]
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The Mauritian poet Khal Torabully, who lives in France near Lyons, is planning to publish a collection on Jerusalem in [...]
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In spite of the political crisis, Romuald Rakotondrazaka, the CEO [...]
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The Crisis Management and Planning Directorate, which comes under the [...]
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The team preparing President Nicolas Sarkozy’s trip to Reunion Island [...]
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Now that his partisans are the dominant force in Parliament [...]
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The Frelimo (ruling party) MPs finally elected the lawyer Veronica [...]
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The Kenyan consulate in Juba has discreetly asked Kenyans resident [...]
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The Djibouti authorities did not appreciate at all that Libya [...]
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Last week the Joint President of Transition, Fetison Rakoto Andrianirina [...]
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The Minister of Agriculture, William Ruto, would seem to be [...]
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The firm Travel World China represented the Mozambican at the [...]
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The joint founder and CEO of D1oils (specialising in the [...]
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The Australian company SMEC International beat five competitors to win [...]
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A very discreet private company claiming to be registered in [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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The German company Tantalus Rare Earths, which has a capital [...]
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From next month, the Kenyan airline is to fly to [...]
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The Dubai based oil company Black Marlin Energy (BMEL) headed [...]
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The Austrian company Andritz has just won a juicy contract [...]
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The Dubai based company specialising in managing hotels, Coral Hotels [...]
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