The outcome of the post colonial wars era, Prime Minister José Socrates of Portugal decidedly doesn’t have an African streak. This Continent doesn’t figure among his priorities, nor his preoccupations and even less in his feelings.
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The France-Madagascar joint military manoeuvres taking place at Ambatondrazaka, about a hundred kilometres from Antananarivo, from 3 to 5 October, [...]
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The new Mexican Ambassador to Kenya, Juan Carlos Cué Vega, has set himself the task of persuading the Kenyan authorities [...]
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President Yoweri Museveni has taken the lead in the crusade to send African troops to Somalia following his meeting with [...]
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Following the defections by several diplomats (see p.4) and a number of dignitaries from the ministry of justice, it is [...]
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The minister of tourism is using a network of people loyal to him placed in key posts to consolidate his influence with Ramgoolam.
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The government has found a way to thwart the opposition’s plan to launch an independent radio station.
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A number of Frelimo MPs hold down a career as a prosperous businessman at the same time as their political activity. We take a closer look here at the activities of two of them.
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The government of the Union has suspended five judges who had freed dignitaries of the previous regime accused of corruption.
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Southern Sudan Airlines (SSA) is still waiting for the authorisation from the government in Khartoum to start flying out of [...]
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One of Meles Zenawi's grey eminences, a former Marxist-Leninist ideologist, has just joined the board of directors of the Development Bank of Ethiopia.
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The first half year has been marked by a slowing down in economic activity and a drop on the performance of 2005.
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The firm BHP Billiton has sold two licences to explore for nickel in Manica province to the junior company Zambezi Nickel
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Two Black economic empowerment magnates have between them bought up a quarter of the equity in an ITC company for an extremely favourrable price.
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The prospect that India may soon sell tea to Pakistan, which is currently supplied by Kenya, is worrying producers. Unless measures are taken the outlook for tea is bleak.
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The Kenyan ministry of agriculture has selected four firms, out of the 67 which had applied, to be authorised to [...]
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The Indian company Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has appointed the Kenyan firm Oriel directed by Ranganathan Sridharan as the exclusive [...]
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The Canadian company Haynes Capital Corp has successfully fulfilled its first contract with its first Tanzanian client. Haynes has been [...]
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In spite of criticism of laxness in its fight against corruption, Kenya is still the number two beneficiary of United [...]
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The world leader in consulting in the management of human resources and evaluation of personnel, the Texas based company Profiles [...]
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The Malagasy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marcel Ranjeva, is studying a proposition with President Marc Ravalomanana to appoint an honorary [...]
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With only two and a half months to go until the presidential election, one of the candidates in the running, [...]
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Jan Mutton, the Belgian government’s special envoy to the Great Lakes region in Africa from 2004 to 2005, has just [...]
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Sudan’s new permanent representative to the United Nations in New York is a career diplomat who has already worked at [...]
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The South African Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has just [...]
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The Mayotte Chambre de commerce et d’industrie (CCI), whose chairman [...]
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The Tanzanian Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of the Nairobi [...]
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After their meeting in Brasilia during the India, Brazil and [...]
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi ’s former head of protocol, who [...]
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Things don’t always go the way Franck Simaer , the [...]
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The investment company MicroCred is to open a branch in [...]
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The team Telma Mobile is setting up ahead of its [...]
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After spending ten years at the head of Société Réunionnaise [...]
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According to some sources, the director general of Air Mauritius, [...]
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The Ugandan government has accepted the credentials of the new [...]
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President Bush has finally selected Andrew S. Natsios to be [...]
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The director of the joint association of Pierrefonds which operates [...]
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The Nation Media Group (NMG) has a new CEO to [...]
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