Black gold fever has started to take hold in several African countries which up to now had been only in the wings of the search for oil. Some international companies which had not been able to set foot in Sudan [.
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The foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) decided this week to prolong until 31 December the European action for [...]
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A delegation of fourteen businessmen from South Korea, accompanied by representatives of the commercial services of the government in Seoul, [...]
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The European Union (EU) which has earmarked an envelope of FC 8 billion (1 euro is worth FC 492) to [...]
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During the visit to India this week by the Ethiopian Minister for Trade Girma Biru, the Indian authorities announced their [...]
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Just as the local political situation would seem to be calming down, opponents and partisans of the government distributed virulent [...]
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As soon as he arrived at his post, the chairman of the Sugar Investment Trust ordered a luxury car to be delivered by the company Leal.
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The leadership of the CUPD in exile has finally exploded under the weight of its divergences.
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The heads of the army are after the Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri.
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Several pro-government businessmen have interests in the media.
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The former Deputy Prime Minister Rajaonarivelo surrounded himself with several communicators in preparing for his abhorted operation to go back to Madagascar.
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The current Tanzanian Minister for Land and Housing, John Magufuli, stands in risk of being involved in an affair concerning [...]
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The Australian company has singed an agreement with a Canadian company to search for oil in the Noogal and Medo/Darin basins.
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The head of Cable & Wireless had to leave the islands after the authorities refused to renew his work permit.
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A small local transport company has joined forces with an unknown British company in order to prepare an extravagant oil refinery project.
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The Mozambican State company has recently created a new company with private partners to go into the biofuels sector.
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A first in Port Louis: all of the directors of a firm listed on the Stock Exchange were rescinded during an extraordinary general meeting convened at the request of a minority shareholder.
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The former deputy minister of defence has just created an import-export company together with a relative of his.
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Already a shareholder in Al Salam Bank in Khartoum, the firm Amlak Finance of Dubai has just acquired 60% of [...]
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The Indonesian firm TransAsia Minerals (TML, subsidiary of TransAsia Resources), founded in June 2004 following the acquisition of the coal [...]
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Several international companies are at the starting blocks to respond to the call for tenders that the South African national [...]
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Following its opening in Kenya, Bank of Africa (BOA) has acquired the stake that the Belgian bank Belgolaise held in [...]
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Several Indian firms specialising in electrical equipment were represented at the Africa Conclave organised recently by the Confederation of Indian [...]
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The first assistant to the head of the Swiss mission to Tokyo since 2001, Peter Reinhardt has just been appointed [...]
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A Belgian journalist, personal friend of Janet Museveni and wife of Johan Van Hecke, Member of the European Parliament (liberal [...]
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As part of the recent government reshuffle, President Jakaya Kikwete transferred the Minister of Labour and Employment, Professor Jumanne Abdallah [...]
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The former spokesman for President Thabo Mbeki is to join the oil company Sasol in January 2007. Bheki Khumalo will [...]
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The new Japanese Ambassador to Ethiopia and also in charge of Djibouti, was previously on post in Washington. Kinichi Komano, [...]
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The South African Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has the [...]
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is to [...]
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The Global Environment Facility (GEF), of the World Bank is [...]
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President James Michel went to Singapore briefly last week, but [...]
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The son of a former minister, who had exerercised his [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, last [...]
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The Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF, opposition) may have only [...]
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A member of the Jeune Chambre Internationale (JCI) and of [...]
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In addition to his function as director of AGF Outre-Mer, [...]
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The French food and agriculture group Danone sent a representative [...]
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President Jakaya Kikwete has appointed Laetitia Kinumda-Rutashobya to the chair [...]
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Iftikhar A. Arian, the former Ambassador of Pakistan to Dakar, [...]
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Ivan Picukaric, the Croatian Ambassador to South Africa since January [...]
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Fernanda Eugenio Moises Lichale, the present Ambassador of Mozambique to [...]
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