The victory of the militia of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Mogadishu and the surrounding area is not only explained by the collapse of the power of the warlords allied together in a "counter-terrorist" coalition.
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In Antananarivo this week, during a seminar organised by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) for Madagascan [...]
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Walter Arbib, 65, the chairman of the Toronto based firm Skylink Aviation, has financed the flight which this week transported [...]
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In spite of the thoroughly unpromising political atmosphere that has been hanging over Nairobi for some months, and the presidential [...]
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Some members of the governing majority have been trying to feed suspicion against the new general manager of Air Mauritius, [...]
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Ahead of the presidential election in July, James Michel is promising to turn the islands into a nation of shareholders, entrepreneurs and investors.
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President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi and his two vice presidents between them form a triumvirate on the scale of the islands of the Comoros archipelago.
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While Consort had the ministers of Puntland eating out of his hand, Range Resources has allied with the nephew of the President of this autonomous administration in north east Somalia.
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The new chairman of Jeune Patronat Malgache has had to manage his first crisis. It was over the designation of the organisation’s representative to a new State body.
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The representative sent to South Sudan by the French oil company Total to try and get the company permission to [...]
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An Israeli company has sent a mission to Antananarivo to present its "green" technology for building roads at a low cost.
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An industrial group which owns plant manufacturing steel and aluminium products in several African countries has formed a joint venture in Maputo.
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The Canadian company Manitoba Hydro International is to put its team in place to manage the KPLC for two years.
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Just before the elections at the end of 2005, the previous government, acting under orders from Benjamin Mkapa, extended the contract to manage the port.
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The South African firm Green River Geology last week sent a delegation to Djibouti where it has been the owner of a mining permit for the last two years.
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The speech in the Port Louis Parliament this week by the Mauritian MP Suren Dayal (see p.3), could lead to [...]
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The rail transport company Comazar, whose majority owner is the South African firm Sheltam, is still undergoing a major restructuring [...]
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The Kenyan Catholic Church has been the target of a wave of criticism, from some of its members and also [...]
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The Chinese company Gezhouba Water and Power is believed to be about to win the contract for the construction of [...]
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The subsidiary of the world leader in security and the [...]
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After spending eleven years in France, Zaona Rabetsitonta has just [...]
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The Office national d’importation et de commercialisation du riz (Onicor) [...]
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Ambassador of Mine Action (in charge of mines clearance and the campaign against the use of anti-personnel mines) since 2002 [...]
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The new Chief of Staff of the Armee Nationale de Développement (AND) is a 47 year-old from Mohéli who has [...]
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The new Italian Ambassador to Pretoria, Alessandro Cevese, is to replace, from 3 July, Valerio Augusto Astraldi as his country’s [...]
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The Regional Commissioner of Ruvuma and Member of Parliament for the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM, ruling party) for the constituency [...]
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According to information obtained in the United States by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the Ethiopian army chief of staff, General [...]
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Around twenty people, including delegates from a dozen or so [...]
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During its recent annual general meeting, the Eastern Africa Association [...]
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Since last April, Nelson Diogo da Silva, son of the [...]
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An official of the Caisse des Retraites des Comores (CRC), [...]
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Already an occasional advisor to President Marc Ravalomanana, the German [...]
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Nouvobanq has a new Chairman, Viswanathan Shankar, replacing Anil Dua [...]
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The former managing director of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC), [...]
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The director of industry and crafts of the ministry of [...]
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The Egyptian former minister of domestic trade, Hassan Khadr has [...]
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The Ukrainian Ambassador to Ethiopia has just been given the [...]
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