With elections in late 2011 in mind, president Marc Ravalomanana has set himself the challenge of projecting the image of a democrat to the country’s donors while reducing the number of political parties and bolstering the presidential nature of his [.
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Cooperation between the China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) of [...]
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Responding to the wishes of Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh [...]
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During its board meeting on 18 December, the French development [...]
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Agriculture minister Panja Ramanoelina regrets not having travelled to Paris as expected on December 8 to explain the sale of [...]
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A recent report issued by the Monitoring Group on Somalia has confirmed that Eritrea is continuing to provide considerable military and financial aid to Islamic insurgents in Somalia.
The brand new special adviser to president Mwai Kibaki for security affairs, Joseph Kamu, would like to see the head of Kibaki’s security detail fired.
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President Ravalomanana has his advisers keep a close eye on his ministers: everyone feels they are sitting in an ejection seat and teamwork has gone out of the window.
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Several Baganda businessmen are finding themselves in hot water at present. They could well be victims of a concerted move by the authorities.
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After his wife opened hostilities, the prime minister launched an offensive in his turn on Teshome Toga, speaker of Ethiopia’s parliament. But Toga stood his ground.
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Several Djibouti officers have refused to give chase to Afar rebels in the north of the country or to prepare for a new war against Eritrea.
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Due to the world economic downturn, private airlines are cancelling services to Mauritius one after the other. After Germany’s LTU [...]
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An American lawyer and businessman and a Republican who called on the electorate to vote for Barack Obama has set up shop as mortgage lender in Dar es Salaam.
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The Kenyan president, who won’t stand for another term in office, is thinking of investing in a hotel project with a partner already well positioned in the business.
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Before endorsing financial assistance to Comoros, the International Monetary Fund insisted on seeing the country resume sharing its budget between the Union and autonomous islands.
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On a visit to Nairobi, the Africa director of the French cement giant Lafarge didn’t succeed in meeting with president Mwai Kibaki as had been planned. He had to settle for Kenya’s vice president.
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To put an end to the exploits of Somali pirates, the boss of the firm Somcan in Puntland, Abidiweli Ali Taar, is asking the UN and European Union to give him $30 million.
Now that its first Islamic products have been widely welcomed on the market, BFCOI is thinking of expanding on its success. And its parent company, France’s Societe General, could well imitate it.
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A former captain of a corvette in Cameroon's Navy, Samuel Kame Domguia, has been asked to draft a strategy on [...]
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The former Malagasy deputy prime minister, Pierrot Rajaonarivelo, is growing increasingly impatient about living in exile in Paris as the [...]
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The chief executive of CIEL Textile., Harold Mayer, could become the new boss of Ireland Blyth (IBL) after the head [...]
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The former secretary-general of the Union of Comoros parliament, Aboubacar Said Salim (Abou to his friends) has been hired by [...]
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The luck of Saudi-Ethiopian tycoon Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi seems to have run out in Addis Ababa at present (ION [...]
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The nephew of a well known industrialist, Marcel Ramanandraibe, has [...]
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A journalist on the weekly L’Express Dimanche that belongs to [...]
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According to a source on the Weekly Observer, an independent [...]
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The former managing director of the Institut de Gemmologie de [...]
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The Belgian Socialist Euro MP Alain Hutchinson, who has just [...]
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The Malagasy Broadcasting System’s television channel that belongs to president [...]
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The chief executive of the Nation Media Group, Linus Gitahi, [...]
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A plan that the firm European Hotels and Resorts has [...]
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Accusations of fraud involving the police are circulating in Addis [...]
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For the fist time since multi-party rule was established, the [...]
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An Indian company specializing in mining, Gimpex (Madagascar), whose chief [...]
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The International Finance Corp, private investment arm of the World [...]
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The oil products distribution company Petrocity Enterprises, which is based [...]
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After acquiring a 75% holding in the 16, 845 sq.km. [...]
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After founding the firm Mbe Moamba in late May in [...]
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The financial concern Energy Engineering Investment, headed in Mauritius by [...]
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A Kenyan company that installs cable for the Internet and [...]
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A joint venture between Singapore's Bitmap (65%) and the J [...]
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An affiliate of Italy's Finmeccanica group, Selex Sistemi Integrati, is [...]
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A West African banking establishment based in Nigeria, the United [...]
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Thanks to its Tanzanian geology consultant, the Canadian concern VIPR [...]
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