Amid behind-the-scenes manoeuvring, the telecommunications sector has become a battleground for competing commercial interests. Telecom Malagasy Mobile (Telma), a subsidiary of Hassanein Hiridjee's Axian, is in the process of losing both its monopoly in the fibre optic market and its [.
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Djibouti has confirmed its rapprochement with certain Gulf states and its intention to monitor countries with which Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are in conflict.
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Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is determined to bring the NISS back into the government fold and to keep it on a tight rein.
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According to confidential Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) files that the Indian Ocean Newsletter has seen, since 2014 the CMI [...]
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President Filipe Nyusi is personally handling the situation in Cabo Delgado, wishing to avoid any interference on the part of [...]
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Although Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) has publicly acknowledged the failings of the institutions in charge of the emergency response to [...]
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Uhuru Kenyatta was not best pleased by the announcement made by Andrew Kamau, the principal secretary at the Ministry of [...]
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The minister of transport and tourism Joël Randriamandranto dusted off the project to upgrade Tolagnaro in late November in the [...]
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As it was prior to the revolution, the Sudanese economy is still in the doldrums. Disposable income has shrunk and [...]
The trial of the journalist Erick Kabendera on 18 December [...]
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On the orders of President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG), the [...]
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The chairman of the Amhara Prosperity Party and deputy prime [...]
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President Andry Rajoelina's personal friend, the Madagascan businessman Maminiaina Ravatomanga [...]
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Raphael Tuju, the secretary-general of President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Party, [...]
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On 19 November, the Djiboutian army chief of staff, General [...]
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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) investigation into the merger [...]
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The auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is no longer in charge [...]
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As in 2010 and 2015, Yoweri Museveni released a song [...]
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Shade, Betika's parent company, is launching the online betting platform on the major African markets with the backing of its shareholder Roamtech.
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The Madagascan government is intending to import oil itself in order to control prices via the SPM, but for the time being the oil companies are calling the shots…
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Since his good friend Andry Rajoelina was elected president, Maminiaina Ravatomanga aka Mamy has been omnipresent in the Madagascan business [...]
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Isaura Nyusi, the wife of President Filipe Nyusi, is the minority shareholder (30%) in Agropecuaria Paroba, a new firm with [...]
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According to our information, the British firm Risk Advisory Group (RAG), whose founder and CEO is Bill Waite, is conducting [...]
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As negotiations between the authorities of Djibouti and Dubai step up a gear, the port operator DP World has won a significant court ruling in its favour in Hong Kong.
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According to our sources, Yoweri Museveni has retained the services [...]
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Though it is not on the coast, Eduardo Abdula, the [...]
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Of late, the European Union (EU) has been much exercised [...]
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The South Sudanese government is in urgent need of replenishing [...]
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The former minister of defence Aguiar Jonassanes Mazula, who is [...]
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The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) presided over by Lydia Nzomo [...]
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The lawyer and businesswoman Fatouma Mahamoud Hassan recently sold her [...]
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Instead of diversifying his business, the CEO of Habibo Group, [...]
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Based in Johannesburg, the energy solutions provider Solar Works has [...]
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According to our sources, the businessman Theodros Teshome, a childhood friend of the Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, has [...]
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The French former banker Yves Schneller recently complained in private that he personally lost out in the takeover of the [...]
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According to inside sources, Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (Afar) has been putting in a good word for Kako Houmed [...]
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The former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Sudan (CBOS), BadrEldin Abdelrahim Ibrahim, was recently promoted to governor in [...]
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