The plan by its president, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, to make Djibouti into a crossroads and attract the companies currently operating in the Jebel Ali (United Arab Emirates) free port, has made it the centre of a vast globalisation process.
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President Mwai Kibaki is planning to meet the leaders of the various ethnic communities...
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President Marc Ravalomanana's first circle of supporters includes a good half dozen higher officers.
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The leader of the Chuma party moved closer to President Assoumani Azali with a view to forming a new Union government.
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Museveni's supporters want to protect their parliamentary majority with a view to voting an ammendment granting the Head of State...
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The anti-corruption campaign by Robert Mugabe's government has forced certain businessmen hitherto close to the administration into exile.
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Pali Lehohla, the chief director of Statistics South Africa, the government statistics surveys organisation, should be cleared of the accusations [...]
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The director general of Omnis is waging war on the minister of finance and the director general of customs.
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Samsung's exclusive agent in Ethiopia is in conflict over a land deed with the Saudi magnate Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi.
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The government is concerned about the monopoly held by the company Africa Air Rescue (insurance and medical services) but can't do without it.
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Finance minister Pravind Jugnauth hopes to improve his popularity ratings by presenting a budget with a strong social dimension.
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In spite of its undertakings, the government is still borrowing massively from the Seychelles Central Bank.
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Airports of Mauritius Ltd (AML) is to issue a new international call for tenders before September to choose the firm [...]
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Annie Favrie, the director general of Initiative Cité & développement, went to Antananarivo for the second time this week in [...]
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Oil exploration work on the Nyuni permit in Tanzania did not encounter only technical problems. The Irish company Aminex has [...]
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US Franchise Systems Inc (USFS) of Atlanta, the parent company of Hawthorn Suites, has just formed a partnership with the [...]
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South Africa's diplomatic intervention in Sudan over the next few months, should not be limited to merely sending a dozen [...]
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During the last few days, the French and Djibouti governments have both adopted bills concerning the financial and fiscal situation [...]
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The decree signed by President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh on 29 May brings some additional details on the location of the [...]
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Norway has just opened, this week, an embassy in Madagascar and has appointed Hans Fredrik Lehne resident ambassador to Antananarivo. [...]
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Philip Victor Green, the new Australian ambassador to South Africa, has been an advisor to the Labor Prime Minister, Bob [...]
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As from 1 July, the Inpedendent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) will have a new CEO in the person [...]
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Adrian Hadorn, the head of the Maputo (Mozambique) bureau of the Swiss Direction du Département et de la coopération (DDC) [...]
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George Atkin will replace Paul Comfort as Australian Ambassador to Kenya in August. He is currently deputy secretary of the [...]
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China has appointed a new ambassador to Antananarivo, replacing Xu [...]
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The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has recently appointed a new [...]
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A new political coalition, comprising five small opposition parties, should [...]
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Whilst the Thai Kereephon was appointed Djibouti Consul to Bankok, [...]
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Charity Kaluki Ngilu, the Kenyan minister of health, has left [...]
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Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, summoned Juneidin Sado, the [...]
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Barclays Bank Uganda is to have a new managing director [...]
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The promoters of the Asmara High Rise Project should present [...]
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The Canadian company Majescor, whose CEO is André Audet, is [...]
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Celtels purchase of Vivendi's stake in the mobile telephone operator [...]
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Luis Fonseca, the Cape Verde ambassador to the United Nations [...]
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Peter Sinon, the former Seychelles ambassador to South Africa, will [...]
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The International Development Association (IDA, part of the World Bank) [...]
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