President Mwai Kibaki has all the cards on his side for the presidential election in December. He has thrown out the now fragile NARC coalition which brought him to power in 2002 and formed an alliance with his former adversary [.
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The Henri Fraise group, which owns 53% of Société Malgache d'Hôtellerie (SMH) jointly with the Malagasy government (which has the [...]
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While he was in New York for the United Nations general assembly, the Prime Minister of Portugal José Socrates, refused [...]
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The American government has invited Ethiopian opponents to Washington for talks with opposition leaders recently freed from prison. The latter [...]
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The dust hasn’t settled yet after Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam’s statements against the "cornering dinosaurs" (in other words, the white [...]
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The British company Lonrho is regaining its influence in Mozambique. It has just acquired 51% of Socremo Banco de Microfinancas, [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from a source at the ministry of the national plan and [...]
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The President of the Union of the Comoros Ahmed Abdallah Sambi does not let go: he wants to lead the [...]
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The proprietor of the Los Angeles based publishing company Tsehai Publishers has just been appointed peace ambassador by two organisms in the Reverend Moon's sect.
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The welcome certain Ethiopian opposition leaders have had in Washington from their partisans is revelatory of the influence the Pentecostal church holds among their ranks.
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A Madagascan doctor living in Switzerland wants to operate in the construction sector in Antananarivo.
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The Prime Minister of Tanzania intervened so that a local mining magnate could obtain a large plot of land in the commercial centre of Dar es-Salaam for a good price.
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An Ugandan former colonel suspected by the United Nations of having grabbed DRC wealth has gone into the property business in Kampala.
One of the richest men on the island is going through a bad patch. One after another his firms have had setbacks.
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According to information obtained in Nairobi by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, two European companies are neck and neck in the [...]
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A rapidly growing company owned by people close to President Mwai Kibaki is negotiating the acquisitions of a 40% stake in the former Kanu daily.
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The non-double taxation treaty signed between India and Mauritius could be amended unilaterally by the government in New Delhi.
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COSATU has blacklisted ANC leaders with interests in private companies.
The small company Enex Resources wants to get its hands on the energy potential in this territory.
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Just as Dubai World is to renovate the Galawa hotel, a Beirut based firm with Arab capital is taking an interest in tourism, banking and telecoms in Moroni.
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After the tuna fish cannery, the international bank now wants to buy a prawn farm.
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The retired officer that President Mwai Kibaki has just appointed to be the next Kenyan ambassador to Somalia may have [...]
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The new head of the French economic mission to East Africa based in Kenya will arrive in Nairobi on 21 [...]
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This young Madagascan teacher – he has taught in Quebec – has just gone home to Antananarivo to become the [...]
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Haile Mariam Desalegn, the former President of the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Regional State (SNNPRS) has just been appointed [...]
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The economist and academic David Ndii could be appointed the director of Transparency International (TI) in Kenya in October, to [...]
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Colonel Abdi Bogoreh Hassan, chief of command of the Djibouti [...]
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In retirement since the end of 2006 after his latest [...]
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The chairman of Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) will be in [...]
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The American specialist in African affairs John Prendergast is to [...]
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According to La Lettre A (The Indian Ocean Newsletter’s new [...]
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The chairman of the Groupement des entreprises franches et partenaires [...]
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One of the biggest European think tanks analysing international issues, [...]
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Kader Bhayat and Gooroonaden Vydelingum, deputy general manager of the [...]
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The Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Luis Amado, is considered [...]
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A small company based in Delaware (USA) chaired by Michael [...]
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The American based in Norfolk, Virginia, has just won a [...]
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Ahead of a resumption of activity by the French oil [...]
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Madagascar’s participation in Comesa and the SADC has given a [...]
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The Malagasy State sugar company, recently taken over by the [...]
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The British company which will fly to Port Louis in [...]
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The firm Al-Marwan General Contracting in charge of running the [...]
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The Seychelles national airline is to inaugurate twice weekly flights [...]
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When it acquired the firm Globeagro Holdings registered in Mauritius, [...]
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The Indian company Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) wants to [...]
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