One outcome of Mwai Kibaki's two terms as President (he will not run again next year) has been a partial reshuffle of the country's elites. While it is true that the old political families that arose after independence still hold [.
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While President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo, who has now reached the ripe age of 76 and will soon [...]
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The UN embargo on the sale of arms and military equipment to Eritrea because of its role in Somalia is preventing its Air Force from maintaining its aircraft.
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is currently in hospital in Belgium for a serious illness. This brings up a taboo subject – who is to succeed him!
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The head of the European Union External Action Service, Catherine Ashton, will work hard during her holidays in South Africa and the Horn of Africa.
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The Foreign Secretary Anand Neewoor seemed to be something of a fixture, but could soon leave his job.
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Despite heavy pressure, Judge Hakim Karki is continuing to work on the case that led him to place some members of the gendarmerie under formal investigation.
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The resignation of an MP in the government party implicated in a pornography scandal has triggered a by-election, to be held on 8 to 10 August.
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After dragging his feet, the President of the High Authority for the Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina known as TGV, claims to want to meet Marc Ravalomanana ASAP.
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The former head of the Mozambican air force, now a retired general who long ago moved into the world of [...]
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The methods used by Africa Oil, its partners and Pathfinder to provide security for its oil permits in Puntland is criticised by UN Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group.
The head of the firm SBT Juul Africa has been sweetening up to President Armando Guebuza for at least two years. This strategy is beginning to bear fruit.
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An Indian Ocean Consultant Company based in Mogadishu has become specialised in handing over ransoms to free hostages from Somalian pirates. But is complicity involved?
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A road maintenance contract was awarded to a company owned by one of Raila Odinga’s political allies, which is now dragging its feet to carry out the work even though it has already been paid.
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Just as Dubai World Ports is negotiating a contract to run the port of Berbera in Somaliland, Djibouti inked a port cooperation agreement with a Chinese company.
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The Minister for Finance Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh is on a tour of European think tanks. This marks a clear break with the much more withdrawn attitude of his colleagues.
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The French company Gallice Security has just sent a delegation led by one of its co-founders Frédéric Gallois to Hargeisa.
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According to our sources, Jimmy Kibaki, the son of President Mwai Kibaki, is a member of the Chinese-Kenyan consortium Savannah [...]
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Raymond St Ange, the editor of the daily newspaper Today in Seychelles since it was first launched last year, has [...]
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In a document about ten pages long dated 16 July entitled "A European approach to the city-state of Djibouti / [...]
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On 11 July, Andrew Akon Akech Kuol, presented his credentials as South Sudan Ambassador to France, where he has already [...]
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Two years after working in the protocol service of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Tony Gachoka found a new job in [...]
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The wife of Apolinario Aurelia da Costa Panguene, who has [...]
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Once upon a time, a decade ago, in the days [...]
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The Malagasy green party Ny Hasin’ny Madagasikara, does not skimp [...]
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. The tone of the military balance of power against [...]
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Red tape and delays in the Djibouti administration have made [...]
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. After investors from China and India, it's now the [...]
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As the general election is looming on the horizon of [...]
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. Since the beginning of the year, Europol set up [...]
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The Swiss company Transportation & Logistic Consulting (TLC) formed a [...]
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The Australian firm Range Resources has good contacts in the [...]
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The Mauritian sugar company Omnicane, whose CEO is Jacques d’Unienville, [...]
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Gilles Bonnenfant, the newly appointed chairman of Eurogroup Consulting, a [...]
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There is no point in worrying about the development of [...]
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The Madagascan subsidiary of the Mauritian company Galileo has just [...]
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The Mozambican company Lotterskrantz is the majority shareholder (with 55% [...]
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With a few months to go until the end of [...]
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A former employee of the French Bolloré group who for [...]
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The timing is all wrong for the €15 million loan [...]
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