While he is not known to own any shares directly in companies on a personal basis, President Jacob Zuma is nevertheless strongly involved in the business world, whether via his family or through his friends.
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The former Minister William Ruto is probably one of the men who stands a high risk of finding himself on [...]
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The President of South Sudan is weary of being sandwiched between the government of Khartoum and the South population’s desire for independence.
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Meles Zenawi has reshuffled his team. His advisors are all loyal to him, some more competent than others.
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The Madagascan military was indecisive about how to react to a mutiny by officers in the Ivato camp.
President Silanyo made two decisions that the Ethiopian authorities had wanted from him, ahead of his official visit to Addis Ababa this week.
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The French ministry for foreign affairs has drawn up a list of conditions that Andry Rajoelina should accept. Here is our exclusive report.
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The first signs of friction between the two leaders in the government alliance are beginning to appear, discreetly fanned by the hard-liners on both sides.
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The High Authority for the Transition(HAT) has dipped extensively into a Treasury account to finance the expenditure of its President [...]
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The companies bordering a planned four-lane highway in the capital have been appointed to finance the project without being consulted. Is this an official racket?
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Now it has joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the Seychelles has had to replace its code of investment by a staunchly free-market Investment Act.
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Dubai World is in dispute with Ahmed Osman Guelleh, the head of its Djibouti subsidiary, Inchcape Shipping.
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Several ministers are opposing the government plan to hive off part of its stakes in a dozen State-owned companies in order to finance the budget.
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The ministers of tourism and of energy have joined forces, together with members of their families, to launch a new investment company in Maputo.
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Nyambura Koigi’s rivals want to block his mandate at the head of the Post Bank from being renewed.
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The Swiss consultancy hired by Kampala argues that it would be more viable to build a refinery in Uganda rather than export future crude by pipeline.
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Ever since he created the firm Baetica-Consultoria em Mineraçao jointly with Samuel Jay Levy, an American citizen resident in Mozambique [...]
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Last month, the Puntland army gave the rebel Islamist group led by Mohamed Saïd "Atom" a resounding thrashing. This group [...]
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The mayor of Beira and leader of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM, opposition), Daviz Simango, took advantage of his party's [...]
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Norbert Lala Ratsirahonana, the legal advisor to the President of the High Authority for Transition(HAT), Andry Rajoelina, was helped by [...]
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The former Minister for Public Works, Kassu Ilala, who has been on the way out for the last two years [...]
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The Tanzanian branch of the American Arcadia University wants to [...]
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The South African Ambassador to Madagascar, Mokgethi Sam Monaisa, will [...]
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The official reason the Vice President in charge of Finance [...]
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The opposition has made its entry into the island's new [...]
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The logical successor to Cardinal Gaétan Razafindratandra (a Merina Andriana), [...]
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The visit in early 2009 by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to [...]
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During the meeting of ministers from the African, Caribbean and [...]
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The Uganda Electricity Transmission Co (UETCL) is very keen to [...]
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The Ugandan UETCL is not the only organisation that wants [...]
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The decision by Gichiri Ndua, the managing director of the [...]
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A former Malagasy tax inspector, Jean Randrianatoandro, is expanding his [...]
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The government of the High Authority for Transition (HAT) is [...]
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Two companies have just formed a joint venture in order [...]
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The funds transfer company Qaran Express, headed by Mohamed Jirdeh [...]
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After its domestic market in South Africa, the firm Grumeti [...]
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Andrew Brown is to move from Egypt, where he heads [...]
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