Alarm bells rang in the neighbouring countries when the heads of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) referred to "greater Somalia", the ideology responsible for the war in the Ogaden thirty years ago, as well as calling for support from [.
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It was the superior force of the Ethiopian army rather than the effectiveness of the Somalian Transitional Federal Government (TFG) [...]
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The legal conflict between the firm Gulf Africa Petroleum Corp (Gapco) and the Barclays and Standard Chartered Bank banks (see [...]
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The Constitutional Court of the Comoros has found that the contract to operate the ports of Moroni and Mutsamudu does [...]
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The retired American Ambassador Peter R. Chaveas has just been appointed director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS). [...]
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One of the members of the consortium formed by Rail India Technical & Economic Services (Rites) to operate the Tanzania [...]
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The Djibouti Minister for Youth and Sport, Hassan Farah Miguil, already a controversial figure for his past management of the [...]
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Meles Zenawi is trying to moderate his internal opposition so as to have his hands free to handle the inevitable armed conflict with Somalian Islamists.
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The regime is still supporting the executives of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council even though certain dissident clerics claim it is corrupt.
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The son of the Prime Minister of Mozambique has been involved in the creation of several companies over the past year.
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President Jakaya Kikwete is planning to set up a commission to investigate the award of a contract to the small American firm Richmond Development Corporation.
Exercising ministers, several ANC executives and one of Thabo Mbeki’s former advisors are all among the black partners of the Bombela Consortium building the high speed rail link between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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The publication of the first issue of ACP-EU Courier, scheduled for the first quarter of 2007, is still up against considerable disagreement about its editorial line.
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Following the creation of an airline by the businessman Imad Saba negotiated with the Ngazidja government (ION 1203), another team [...]
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Even before the official announcement in Moroni, BIC's clients were already aware that BNP Paribas was withdrawing from the capital of this Comoran bank.
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In the space of six years, Thierry Rasamoely and his wife have built up working relationships with half a dozen foreign companies in various sectors of activity.
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A small Kenyan company is working with the Italian firms which won the contract to build the control tower at Lokichoggio airport.
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Two financial problems are handicapping foreign companies which win contracts in Sudan: the weakness of the local banks and the American embargo.
The Kerzner International group will have to pay out $75 million to divest itself of Sun Resorts, taking over the St Geran hotel in the process.
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For several months now, Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam of Mauritius has had a British economic advisor, in the person of [...]
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At 38, Mohamed Siad Douale has just been accredited as Djibouti Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and to [...]
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The person who is working on behalf of the International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) and the [...]
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The first private regular Malagasy airline, Air Transport & Transit Régional (ATTR), should in principle make its first flight on [...]
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The team in Madagascar from ShoreBank International, a subsidiary of the ShoreBank Corp of the United States, has been headed [...]
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A few weeks ago the World Bank designated a country manager for Eritrea and Somalia, who will be based in [...]
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The President of the autonomous island of Ngazidja Abdou Souleh [...]
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Kulibi, or more specifically St Gabriel’s Church, 68 km from [...]
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The Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi didn't mince his words [...]
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The French Minister of Industry, François Loos, is to go [...]
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Hargeis’a’s lobbyist in South Africa has once again pleaded the [...]
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The sale of the stake held by the AFD in [...]
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The Djibouti opposition, mainly from the Afar ethnic group, has [...]
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The director of the sub-Saharan Africa department of the Portuguese [...]
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The Seychelles National Party (SNP, opposition) is maintaining its boycott [...]
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Although it has been negotiating to open a delegation in [...]
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This Brussels based firm specialised in biometric identification (used in [...]
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The Mauritius firm Fluor Daniel Engineers & Consultants, a subsidiary [...]
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The American oil company which won a permit to explore [...]
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As from 1 January, the Brazilian oil company will have [...]
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The government of Kenya is planning to create a third [...]
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Already in partnership with Upstream Petroleum Services (USPL) and Aminex [...]
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As part of a restructuring exercise, this Mauritius based group [...]
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