A year after it tried to reassure French tour operators about Air Seychelles dropping direct flights to Europe (ION 1333), the Seychelles government is now turning to the private sector to fill the gap in the market via a new [.
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The British company Developing Markets Associates (DMA), headed by Atam Sandhu and specialised in lobbying and organising conferences, recently brought [...]
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Crédit agricole is keen for a quick sale of its 51% stake in BNI Madagascar, so is not looking too [...]
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It did not take long for the new Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Interior and Coordination of National Government, Joseph Ole [...]
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The government in Dar es Salaam is investigating the affairs of around 200 Tanzanians suspected of dissimulating some $196 million in Swiss banks.
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The views on post-Meles Zenawi Ethiopia of the American Acting Assistant Secretary for African affairs, Donald Yamamoto, are particularly balanced.
Djibouti employees are in revolt against cost cuts that the firm KBR is planning to implement in operating the US military base.
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President Hassan Sheikh Mahamoud and his government are keen to have “their own” ambassadors. They have just appointed four, with several more to come.
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President Yoweri Museveni convened a meeting of UPDF High Command in late May to deal out new cards among the Ugandan army.
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The Framework Partnership Agreement between France and the Comoros that was initialled on 20 June includes a substantial section on security and defence.
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The Syrian-born businessman Rashad Naqaweh, who obtained a Comorian diplomatic passport during the regime of President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, has [...]
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The international verification and inspection company Cotecna is negotiating a contract to modernise Malagasy customs, while its rival SGS already has one.
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The Commission for privatising Comores Telecom has hit against an unforeseen stumbling block: Parliament could reject the bill to carry the process through.
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The new partnership framework document between Paris and Moroni includes French aid for the Comoros central bank, in addition to security (see p.4).
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The last stumbling blocks to the acquisition of 51% of the equity of BNI Madagascar by the Mauritian Indian Ocean Financial Holding have been all but lifted.
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While it turned a small profit in 2012 (FDJ 3 million or $16,900), Banque de Depot et de Crédit Djibouti (BDCD) is nevertheless going through a bad patch.
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The Turkish consortium building the new passenger terminal at Mogadishu airport will also be in charge of operating it.
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Three prominent members of Frelimo - two former and one serving minister - are becoming increasingly involved in working precious stones.
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The Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM, ruling party) MP for the Nzega constituency in the Tabora region in the west of [...]
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The Franco-Algerian Lotfi Otmani has just replaced the Mauritanian Ould Amar Yahya as director general of Banque pour le commerce [...]
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Djibouti's ambassador to China, Abdallah Abdillahi Miguil, joined forces with his colleague, the Guinean ambassador to Beijing, Mamady Diare and [...]
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The former police commissioner Mathew Iteere, who retired at the end of 2012, has found something to keep him busy, [...]
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Just a few months after he left the important post of Solicitor General (SG), reporting to the office of the [...]
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The chairman of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), Johnstone [...]
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The highly controversial chairman of the Ethiopian opposition group Ginbot [...]
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US President Barack Obama’s decision to go to Tanzania during [...]
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At the end of July, the French foreign minister Laurent [...]
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While Transition President Andry Rajoelina better known as TGV, who [...]
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The Ethiopian former foreign affairs minister, Seyoum Mesfin, organised two [...]
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The Ethiopian government has just brought a bill before the [...]
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Solly Levy, one of the founders of the South African [...]
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The Italian company Dimms Control owned by the De Iasi [...]
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The firm specialised in consulting services for airports Lufthansa Consulting, [...]
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There is an utter state of confusion within the management [...]
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The printed press, radio and TV company Mediamax, owned by [...]
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The provisional administrator of Banque industrielle et commerciale de Madagascar [...]
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Manuel Delgado, the director general of Sociedade Algodoeira do Niassa, [...]
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The visit by President Ikililou Dhoinine to the headquarters of [...]
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