China already controls a substantial proportion of the textile companies in the Malagasy export processing zone and has become one of the world’s largest importers of Madagascan products. Certainly a large number of the 84 Chinese firms present in Madagascar [.
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Two American Congressmen, members of the Democratic Party (DP) James P. Moran (Virginia) and Betty McCollun (Minnesota) this week brought [...]
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A small official delegation from Madagascar is scheduled to go to India from the 20 February. It will be led [...]
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The governments of Uganda and South Africa are negotiating a security pact which should lead to cooperation between the police [...]
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In June 2002, Madagascar came into the line of sight of the American government, which classified it as "level 2, [...]
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The French Senate investigation mission effected a brief working visit to the Comoros on 9 February. The mission was led [...]
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The former personal advisor of ex-President Daniel arap Moi is discreetly coming back into the wings of the Kenyan political [...]
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During his recent visit to Brussels, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia invited the European Commissioner Louis Michel to Addis Ababa.
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The Mauritius Vice President’s brother-in-law is currently consolidating a press group that he could place at the service of the present regime.
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One of the candidates for the presidential election who is known as The Ayatollah because of his Islamist views has appointed two Vice Presidents.
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President Azali’s party is still looking for a candidate for the election of the President of the Union of the Comoros and is trying to persuade Caabi to accept the party’s investiture. This election will be held in April.
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A Whatana Investment Group (WIG) has been created in Maputo with the aim of being, as stated on its web [...]
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After declining the post of Ambassador to Brussels, Sylvestre Radegonde has gone to work for the South African property group owned by Craig Heeger.
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Former President Chissano has created two companies in Maputo; one with wife and four children and the other with his two brothers.
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The Honorary Consul of Eritrea in Karachi is a member of the Kashmirwala family group, which is well-known in the travel agency and airline ticketing sector.
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A British family of Asian origin which recovered a farm in 1998 has been chased off it by a local entrepreneur.
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Several companies well known in the private intelligence and risk management sectors have created poles specialised in Africa.
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An American consulting firm has become specialised in studies related to Qit Madagascar Minerals (QMM) project to work ilmenite.
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A delegation of 18 people of various nationalities representing several companies went to Hargeisa this week to meet President Dahir [...]
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After having been one of the three firms to be short listed last year by the Ethiopian Broadcasting Agency (EBA) [...]
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The very young firm Twin Mode Lda, (www.twinmode.com), specialised in multimedia and information and communication technology (ICT) is in fact [...]
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The United Kingdom based Robinow family has filed with the Kenyan Capital Market Authority (CMA) for an authorisation to be [...]
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The South African airline company Comair Ltd has the wind in its sails. Comair operates flights for British Airways in [...]
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The new Director General of the Ministry of Energy and Mining, Sylvain Razafindriaka, is drawn from among the executives of [...]
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As The Indian Ocean Newsletter predicted last week (ION 1168), Amos Kimunya, the Kenyan Minister of Land, has been appointed [...]
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The former chairman of the American government agency African Development Foundation (ADF) Nathaniel Fields has been put at the head [...]
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A British businessman living in Zimbabwe, where he is close to the regime of President Robert Mugabe, has just been [...]
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The seminar on the Horn of Africa to be held [...]
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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The South African media firm Spintelligent is organising, with the [...]
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Jérôme Taillé-Rousseau, director of communication and development of Canal France [...]
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The shareholders of Focus 21 Gestão e Desenvolvimento Limidata decided [...]
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During a recent meeting in Dodoma with President Jakaya Kikwete, [...]
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The firm Société Trading de l’Océan Indien (STOI), whose chairman [...]
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The Sahara Communications and Publishing Company Ltd conglomerate, owned by [...]
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The firm PAM Atomique Sarl (PAMA), a subsidiary of the [...]
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The Mozambican minister of mining, Esperança Bias, has just awarded [...]
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Tiana Raoelina has become the director of human resources of [...]
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The chairmen of several State companies have been inaugurated this [...]
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President Thabo Mbeki designated a three man commission this week [...]
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Ali Hassan Bahdon, the director general of the Agence Nationale [...]
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The Yemeni Ambassador to Ethiopia, Ameen Mohammad Al-Yusufi has just [...]
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