President Marc Ravalomanana's willingness to open his country to foreign investment will compel French firms, who thought they had the turf to themselves, to face new competitors. Of course, these competitors aren't exactly lining up to invest in Madagascar, but [.
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Experts in civil aviation security were set to arrive in Addis Ababa this week to investigate an incident at Bole [...]
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After a visit to the United States this week, the president of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), John Garang, [...]
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The deputy secretary general of the fictional legislative council created by President Assoumani Azali after his coup d'état in April [...]
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The minister of Mozambican culture, Miguel Nkaime, will go to Reunion Island as the invitation of the island's regional council [...]
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Ethiopian Amalgamated Ltd. (EAL), which is owned by Gebreyes Begna, a businessman of Ethiopian origin based in Washington, has just [...]
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The Mauritian authorities have just approved three hotel projects on Rodrigues Island for a total investment of 240 million rupees [...]
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In advance of the World Bank Consultative Group on Kenya, which is set to take place in Nairobi next week, [...]
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The Canadian company DiamondWorks came to the rescue of Kenyan minister Raila Odinga by taking a 55% stake in his firm Spectre International.
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A recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission criticized the Ugandan government's inability to liberalize, as promised, the social security sector.
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The Tanzanian government wants to offer high-quality tourist services to attract high-class visitors with money to spend.
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Each week seems to bring more to its share of embezzlement affairs and misappropriation of public funds in the Union [...]
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President Mbeki's visit to Paris wasn't the opportunity to sign big contracts, but numerous business contacts did take place.
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Pressured by its donors to liquidate unprofitable state companies and to privatize others, the government will close Sidec.
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The former Mozambican ambassador to France has just been named to the same post in Tanzania. Born in 1941 in [...]
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An Internet site with ties to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF, hard core of the EPRDF in power in [...]
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The new Djiboutian ambassador to the United Arab Emirates presented his credentials last week. Idriss Ahmed Chirwa is his country's [...]
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The Federal Civil Service Commission has a new commissioner: Mesfin Tafesse. He replaced Alemayehu Haile Mariam, who retired after holding [...]
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By strictly controlling the Kenyan chief of state's visitors, the private secretary to President Mwai Kibaki, whose official title is [...]
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An American diplomat wants to reopen the investigation on the murder of two fellow citizens in the Ugandan national park of Bwindi in March 1999.
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A discreet association is looking to increae the influence of multilateralist arguments in the Malagasy intelligentsia.
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The head of the Federal Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission is sick of spokes getting in the wheels, and is thinking of resigning.
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The speaker of the national assembly summoned the former Ethiopian president, Negasso Gidada, to warn him about his public declarations.
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The World Bank will no longer finance new projects in [...]
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Mozambique's Centro de Promoçao de Investimentos (CPI) is going to [...]
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After organizing a protest by Eritreans in front of the [...]
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The Australian company Sub-Sahara Resources NL (SSR) has just obtained [...]
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Representatives from the French hotel group Accor were expected in [...]
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The Djiboutian government placed an order for 4,000 fruit-tree plants [...]
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A French polytechnic engineer, Pierre Durey, was hired as managing [...]
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Barclays Bank Seychelles has named a Seychelles citizen as senior [...]
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The Spanish consul to Madagascar has been elected mayor of [...]
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A new Director of Medical Services (DMS) was named to [...]
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The Canadian authorities have sent a new military attaché to [...]
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The chairman of Standard Bank, Jacko Maree, was one of [...]
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During his visit to Paris, President Thabo Mbeki was particularly [...]
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The awarding of the prize of best journalist of the [...]
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The Ugandan government began a vast lobbying operation to run [...]
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