A town where trading of all kind takes place, Mombasa harbours an impressive band of businessmen who are always keen to expand their political influence in this coastal province so that they can put the government of Nairobi to good [.
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from a source in the Kenyan ministry of home affairs, at [...]
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The authorities in Juba have signed memoranda of understanding with several foreign oil companies, giving them options on oil and [...]
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The government announced today by the new Prime Minister Charles Rabemananjara marks the return to the foreground of several "Tiko [...]
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The Conseil Economique et Social (CES) recently discussed a report on the future of the tourist industry in French overseas [...]
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According to information obtained in Nairobi by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from a Kenyan military intelligence officer, the Ethiopian army [...]
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During his visit to France this week, the chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM, main component in the Darfur [...]
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Washington is looking for an African Muslim leader to head the peace-keeping operation in Somalia.
After hiring the former Miss Mauritius, Isabelle Antoo and the journalist Jugdish Joypaul, the Minister for Tourism has taken a new public relations advisor.
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The conflict of competency between the President of the Union and those of the autonomous islands is worrying members of the international community in Moroni.
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Two ministers want a lawyer who is close to them to be appointed chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya to replace Samuel Kivuitu.
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The Kenyan Air Force and military intelligence services have provided back up for the Ethiopian military offensive against the militia of the Islamic Courts in the south of Somalia.
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President Yoweri Museveni has sent military intelligence agents to spy on certain Members of Parliament of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) who are considered as dissident.
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The somewhat Europe-oriented stance of Portuguese Prime Minister José Socrates on African matters is shared with the former Minister for [...]
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Over the course of their transformations, the Portuguese external intelligence services have always kept Africa in their line of sight. [...]
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Just as the Madagascan national sugar company Sirama is undergoing a complete restructuring, a Zimbabwean company wants to invest in [...]
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Two young Madagascan businessmen have beefed up their respective press groups by acquiring two local radio and television stations.
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A South African consultancy, through its local partner, is restructuring the National Bank of Kenya, ahead of its possible acquisition by the South African Standard Bank.
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The Minister of Security’s family firm is about to be authorised to purchase tea directly from farmers and export it to the United States.
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An Australian company has acquired a firm with a permit to explore for precious metals in Mozambique. It is soon to be listed on the AIM in London.
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The present political situation is very favourable to the expansion of the BAI group, whose two executives are both related to the Mauritian Deputy Prime Minister.
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A dozen international corporations are sponsoring, at varying degrees, the Second Sudan Development Summit to be held in Khartoum from 19 to 21 March.
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Sanofi Aventis is to transfer part of its Dakar office to Johannesburg to create a platform from where it can expand into the Eastern and Central regions of Africa.
Many Portuguese lawyers, such as the firm Franco Caiado Guerreiro which has just created a department specialising in Angola , [...]
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In its forties, the "new generation" of Portuguese Africa specialists has come mainly from the universities and NGOs, some of [...]
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The subsidiaries of Portuguese banks cannot be avoided in the banking system in Portuguese-speaking African countries. Millenium/BCP (formerly Banco Comercial [...]
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Portuguese construction companies use the former colonies as their game reserve to add punch to their sales figures. The most [...]
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Fernando Jorge de Castro Teixeira Cardoso has coordinated since 1991 [...]
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Patricia Ferreira is in charge of African issues at the [...]
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Manuela Franco, in charge of African issues at the Instituto [...]
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Jochen Oppenheimer, even though he is German, is chairman of [...]
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Antonio Monteiro heads "Think" Africa. He is the current Ambassador [...]
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The diary of the chairman of the Africa committee of the French employers' federation Medef International, who is moreover the [...]
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The CEO of MTC-Vodafone in Barhein has just been appointed deputy chairman of Celtel International in charge of Kenya, Uganda, [...]
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The son of the former paymaster of the late President Hassan Gouled Aptidon is the partner-manager in Société Djiboutienne d'Exploitation [...]
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The former manager of Silvio Proto, the goalkeeper of the Belgian football club Royal Sporting Club d’Anderlecht (RSCA), is planning [...]
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The Somalian deputy minister of defence who chairs the security committee created in Mogadishu last week (see p. 2) has [...]
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The person appointed to be the new executive director of the preparatory committee of the Agence Nationale pour la Régulation [...]
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Nuno Mello Bello, former Portugal Consul to Montreal, has headed [...]
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Joao Gomes Cravinho, the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign [...]
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Joaquim Chito Rodriguez retired general and former head of the [...]
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One of the most important Portuguese diplomatic posts on the [...]
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At 60 José Franco Caiado is one of the longest-established [...]
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The chairman of the board of the Associação Portugal Moçambique, [...]
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The rich businessman from Macao, Stanley Ho, has joined forces [...]
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Carlos Bayan Fereira, the international director of the former Portuguese [...]
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The owner of Multipore, a firm specialising in importing medical [...]
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The former governor of the Banco de Mocambique (central bank), [...]
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The former President of Zanzibar Salmin Amour is high on [...]
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The director general of the Economic Development Board of Madagascar [...]
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President Jakaya Kikwete has three new economic advisors. Philip Mpango [...]
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A Czech exiled in the Seychelles, Rasdovan Krejcir, was briefly [...]
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Robert Mugabe has upset all of the pretenders to his [...]
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The Somalian Deputy Minister of Defence Salad Ali Jelle is [...]
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Sandy Rajaosafara, director of the economic observatory of the shrimps [...]
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Zaza Ramandimbiarison, the former Malagasy Deputy Prime Minister, will not [...]
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A group of Mozambican geologists has formed a company of [...]
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The Chief Executive Officer of Société Sino-Malgache des Bouteilles Isolantes [...]
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Following the decision taken last year by the Walloon Region [...]
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Two South African firms have begun negotiations with the authorities [...]
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The Indian company specialising in oil related activities based in [...]
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Thanks to a programme funded by the World Bank, the [...]
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One year after opening a modern 17,500 square metre (190,000 [...]
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The American money management company has designated the former South [...]
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An NGO centred on fostering awareness of the fight against [...]
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Assistência Médica Internacional (AMI) is a medical NGO created 20 [...]
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The Fundaçao Portugal-Africa is mainly a grouping of Portuguese economic [...]
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