Whether young ambitious officials in charge of the Madagascar Action Plan (MAP) dear to the heart of President Marc Ravalomanana or secretary generals recently hired, educated people from the high plateaux are taking the lion's share of the top administration.
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Hugues De Roquette-Buisson, the head of the Africa department of the French insurance company AGF (part of the Alliantz group) [...]
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Almost half of the Seychelles People's Progressive Front (SPPF, ruling party) candidates in this week-end’s snap election are government officials. [...]
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Several shareholders making up a total of 5% of the capital of Sentinelle, the company which owns the daily newspaper [...]
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Although the French socialist party candidate Ségolène Royal was largely in the lead among French people voting in Madagascar in [...]
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Openly criticised by the United States for his role in destabilising the Horn of Africa, the Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki [...]
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With three years to go until the next World Cup Soccer is held in South African in June and July [...]
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The lobbying campaign currently being carried out by several ministers for the former director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), [...]
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In addition to his old friends and longstanding advisors, Mwai Kibaki has been taking advice from several other people lately, ahead of the elections at the end of the year.
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Having little knowledge of the oil sector and no room to manoeuvre, the Secretary of State for Energy and Mines carries little weight in the government in Khartoum
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The rebels who attacked an oil site are supported by Asmara and have links with the Somalian Islamists.
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Internal struggles are forming within the governing NRM party, leading President Yoweri Museveni to be concerned that an open rebellion could be brewing within it.
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Ahmed Abdallah Sambi feels cramped in his role of President of the Union, since he is obliged to share power with the Presidents of the three autonomous islands.
The Hindu Entrepreneurs Association (HEA), which took over from the Association Mauricienne des Entrepreneurs (AME) in 2005, is proving to [...]
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Several lobbyists are banding the idea around Port Louis of a strategic partnership between Air Mauritius and Emirates.
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A score of German entrepreneurs are to arrive in Antananarivo on 6 May for a week-long trade prospecting mission.
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In spite of his new Seychelles identity, the Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir was arrested in Johannesburg.
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The installation of new electricity capacity by certain foreign companies is running late, causing suspicion that could fallout on President Kikwete.
The State body in charge of the oil prospecting deals with foreign companies has had a new person at its head for the last two weeks.
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France has just designated several new foreign trade counsellors, while renewing the mandates of others.
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The wife of a former Malagasy diplomat has just gone into the property and construction industry. Sylviane Ramarozaka, 57, has [...]
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A French business man who has lived in Nairobi for a dozen years is one of the new French counsellors [...]
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The founder-president of Financial Technologies (India) (FTIL) is planning to create a commodities exchange in Port Louis by July 2007. [...]
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The Corporate Council of Africa (CCA), which is a meeting point for heads of American companies operating in Africa, has [...]
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President Isaias Afwerki has just appointed his virtually immovable minister of education to the post of minister for foreign affairs, [...]
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The new Eritrean Minister for Foreign Affairs, Osman Saleh, (see [...]
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The former Mozambican Minister for International Cooperation Jacinto Veloso now [...]
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The French advertiser Pascal Kryl did not finally make the [...]
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The president of the Family Tribunal, which settles family disputes [...]
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While French heads of companies living in Antananarivo, such as [...]
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The German Ambassador to Kenya, Walter J. Lindner, wrote to [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from [...]
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The Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Jumanne Maghembe, his [...]
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The Australian company has decided to acquire, by exchange of [...]
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The holding company gathering the sugar activity of the Quartier [...]
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The Danish specialised in supplying equipment for camps, whose activity [...]
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While preparing a reduction in personnel at its Port Louis [...]
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The mining subsidiary of the well-known Indian group has just [...]
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The manager of the company Global Telecom, Richard Fienena, has [...]
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The government of the Union of the Comoros has just [...]
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This company currently going through the motions to become listed [...]
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After obtaining uranium exploration licences in Tanzania, the Canadian company [...]
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The agreement whereby 100 seats were attributed to Air Mauritius [...]
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