Shrimp fishing, which is Madagascar's first source of export revenues since vanilla revenues collapsed, is the subject of bitter conflict of interests between the largest companies (Pêcheries de Nossy Be, Somapêche) and other shipowners. The prize is big:
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Ethiopian businessman Yemeru Nega (who is of the Gurage tribe) has set his company, Yencomad Inc. Pvt. Ltd Co, to [...]
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US president Bill Clinton announced on April 15 his intention to nominate Brian Dean Curran, of Seminole (Florida), as US [...]
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Barely one month after the visit to Paris of Madagascar's head of state Didier Ratsiraka, his prime minister Pascal Rakotomavo [...]
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Malagasy head of state Didier Ratsiraka has chosen one of his faithful followers to nominate as director of cabinet: Honoré [...]
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The London conference which brought together two hundred members of the Acholi diaspora in Africa, Europe and the United States [...]
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The Mauritian foreign ministry is activating the installation of a pilot mechanism to take over administration of the fourteen-nation Indian [...]
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Eritrea's new trade and industry minister will probably not be Berhane Abrehe as expected but Ali Said Abdella, the former [...]
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Following an article entitled "Social security tangle" in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N°761), Noor Akhoun, deputy director of Caisse [...]
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Several member-states of the European Union who have already been approached over the fate reserved for journalists, trade unionists and [...]
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Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim followed up his visit to Sharjah and Qatar by going on this week [...]
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Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), the Afar ex-guerrilla movement which has been allied with [...]
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The Belgian army's judge advocate has opened an inquiry into the death of a young Somali in the Kisimayo region, [...]
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The report of the inquiry commission into the operations of [...]
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The Grand Master of the Grande Loge de France (Masonic [...]
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The leader of RENAMO (opposition) was due to carry out [...]
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According to the manager of Gulf Petroleum Company for Sudan, [...]
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Foreign minister Kalonzo Musyoka reacted sharply on April 17 in [...]
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A military exercise by the Ethiopian army and elements of [...]
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Following a visit to Sudan at the end of February [...]
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Sudanese head of state general Omar Al Bechir and Ugandan [...]
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The leader of the political clan faction which controls southern [...]
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A judge in the Aix (France) appeals court and well-known [...]
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France's exports to Eritrea last year exploded eightfold to hit FFr.89 million, but Eritrean exports trade with France managed only [...]
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The report presented in Brussels on April 10 by European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD), a consortium of NGOs [...]
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The chapter devoted to the Republic of South Africa in the US Administration's recently published 1997 National Trade Estimates Report [...]
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The Zairean rebel movement led by Laurent Kabila has denounced the giant South African group De Beers' trading monopoly on [...]
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The contract of a Banque Nationale pour le Développement Rural (BTM) director, French national Jean Pierre Meurillon, which had been [...]
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Latest figures from the French Customs administration for last year show a major shift in the nature of exports to [...]
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Negotiations on fixing tariffs for electricity produced by the Mozambican-owned, Portuguese-managed Cabora Bassa hydroelectric dam continue to drag on. The [...]
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French parastatal Caisse Française de Développement has granted an emergency subsidy of FFr.5 million in the framework of a contract [...]
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Kenya's Network Business Promotion run by Jeremiah Nyagah plans to [...]
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Recent positive declarations by International Monetary Fund representative in Nairobi [...]
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Spain's Banco Vizca, represented in Tanzania by Haji Shangwe, signed [...]
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Italian road-building contractors are back in Ethiopia in strength. During [...]
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