Despite President Salva Kiir's announcement on 14 March that the coffers are empty, the South Sudanese regime is continuing to shower equipment on its army, even though its soldiers have not been paid for many months.
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The lull in the attacks was short-lived and the Islamist fundamentalists are gaining ground… The low-down.
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On 4 March, the president announced the dismissal of the Inspector General of Police and a series of other changes.
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Following criticisms from the Chinese government, Addis Ababa decided a fortnight ago to launch a consultation forum to resolve the [...]
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On 10 March, General Abbas Kamel, the director of Egypt's military intelligence agency Mukhabarat, paid a surprise visit to Khartoum [...]
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With murders and attempted murders of opposition figures piling up - victims having included Daniel John (beaten to death) and [...]
According to information obtained exclusively by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, despite the announcement by US State Department's spokesperson Heather Nauert [...]
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The chairman of the board at Omnis (Office des mines nationales et des industries strategiques), Eric Rabeharisoa, recently had talks [...]
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According to information obtained exclusively by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, [...]
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Currently, the Ethiopian president Mulatu Teshome Wirtu is allegedly in [...]
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On 27 February, two former US ambassadors to Kenya, Mark [...]
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According to our information, the main South Sudanese opposition movement, [...]
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In the face of China's mounting influence along Africa's Indian [...]
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In its rivalry with Khartoum, Cairo is using all its [...]
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On 8 March, the constitutional court announced the definitive results [...]
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The industrial consortium with links to the TPLF is crushing the competition and monopolising textile exports.
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The Ethiopian national airline is expanding into a country with high potential, proving it is still in a healthy state despite the political crisis in Ethiopia.
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According to information obtained by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, miners in the Arusha region affected by last year's ban on [...]
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The partnership established back in September 2011 between Airtel Madagascar and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is coming to an end [...]
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The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), a powerful grouping of white wildlife rangers in northern Kenya, is accused of involvement in [...]
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An Angolan businessman is making the financial community nervous, and the Mauritian government too. The latest revelations.
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In mid-February, the telecommunications company Airtel acquired the kingdom of [...]
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The president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Madagascar [...]
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According to information obtained exclusively by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, [...]
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Thirteen groupings of commercial operators, including Groupement des entreprises de [...]
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Novastar Ventures, the Nairobi-based venture catalyst firm, is poised to [...]
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Mbola Rajaonah, a special advisor to President Hery Rajaonarimampianina on [...]
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Already active in India, Turkey and Finland, the Indian business [...]
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The Madagascan subsidiary of the Gabonese bank BGFIBank, BGFIBank Madagascar, [...]
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According to information obtained exclusively by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, [...]
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The finance minister and secretary-general of the ruling Rassemblement populaire pour le progres (RPP), Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh (Issa/Fourlaba/Hannis), is in [...]
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The head of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), John Njiraini, is under siege. President Uhuru Kenyatta wants to dismiss him [...]
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Jean-Marc Heintz, a Frenchman based in Comoros since the 1990s and a convert to Islam, has become the technical director [...]
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The businessman Danilo Rodrigues Domingos Nhantumbo, who is close to Frelimo, has become the local partner of the South African [...]
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