Nothing would seem to be able to stop President Armando Guebuza running for a new presidential mandate at the end of 2009. He is, nevertheless, taking the precaution of neutralising the big names from the previous regime of Joaquim Chissano, [.
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According to our sources, the former French Ambassador to Gabon, [...]
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"A certain number of airlines are making a mint out [...]
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Witney Schneidman, who has been one of Barack Obama’s election [...]
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Since the French firm Secopex CSA has not even begun [...]
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Since he was ousted from the government a few months ago, the former Minister for Finance and later for Education, [...]
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The report on responsibility for the ethnic clashes at the beginning of the year has split the ODM leadership. William Ruto and Raila Odinga are now looking for new political alliances ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
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Several leaders who have had brushes with the President of Puntland are taking advantage of the forthcoming presidential election in January to stand against him.
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President Sambi has replaced the directors of all the State companies and administrations in Mohéli. Ali Saïd sees it as an “administrative coup d’état”.
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The Al-Shabaab Islamist militia is closing in on Mogadishu. All signs are that it could regain power in the city in what looks like a replay of the events in 2006.
While claiming he is willing to negotiate with the Oromo Liberation Front rebels, the Ethiopian Prime Minister is making life hard for the legal Oromo opposition.
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Ismaël Omar Guelleh has changed his attitude to the Afar rebels still present in the north of the country. He had previously ignored them, but now he denounces them as Eritrea-backed “terrorists”.
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The breakdown in 2006 of the partnership between South Africa Airways (SAA) and Air Tanzania Co (ATC) stood a strong [...]
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Pierre Van Den Boogaerde, the IMF’s representative in Antananarivo, has made some very scathing remarks in private about President Marc Ravalomanana’s policies.
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The process to award the contract for the installation of a computerised security system at the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) is being contested by a bad loser.
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The development of the economic activity zone around the Mauritius International Airport has just been attributed to the Currimjee Jeewanjee group.
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For the last few days the Madagascar Tribune has only been published in its electronic version. A conflict between the management and the owner of the title has brought the paper to its knees.
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A serious internal crisis is shaking up the management of the daily Le Matinal. It pits the CEO against the marketing manager and could affect the paper’s future.
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The owner of a hunting concession in the Niassa national park, Benjamin de Rothschild is funding studies on the husbandry of wild animals. The AFD is also involved.
The former President of the Seychelles, France Albert René, who is still chairman of the Seychelles People’s Progressive Front (SPPF, [...]
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The person in charge of Exploration and Production for Total in Madagascar, Jérôme Roux, will soon lead the company’s first [...]
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The Malagasy Minister for Agriculture Panja Ramanoelina has just noticed that his popularity rating with President Marc Ravalomanana is not [...]
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While he is involved in various shady trading contracts with the Tanzanian government, the businessman Tanil Somaiya does not know [...]
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Two officials in the office of Prime Minister Raila Odinga are said to be behind the last-minute change in the [...]
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The head of the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) [...]
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Following his appointment as chairman of the board of the [...]
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The head of the Italian computer company Ridat is a [...]
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Following the article entitled "Patrice Legris having doubts" (ION 1249), [...]
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The small island of Rodrigues, a dependency of Mauritius, will [...]
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The Seychelles National Party (SNP, opposition) is having problems with [...]
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The animosity between Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Prime Minister [...]
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The German national, Claudia Wiedey-Nippold, head of the European Union [...]
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The tension with the executives of the autonomous islands of [...]
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The Kenyan investment company owned by men close to President [...]
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The engineering company Energo Nigeria, founded in Lagos in the [...]
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After studying the matter for two years, East African Exploration [...]
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This subsidiary of the Tel Aviv based company Ara Minerals [...]
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The new Kenyan weekly newspaper Sunday Express which hit the [...]
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The Kenyan branch of the American company Cisco Systems has [...]
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A new maritime agency was created in Maputo at the [...]
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The company specialised in collecting and transporting funds Brink’s Madagascar [...]
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