News of the business world in Maputo beats to the rhythm of the creation of companies in which former dignitaries of the Frelimo (ruling party) are shareholders, along with their offspring or even ministers still in the exercise of their [.
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The American diplomats on post in Antananarivo intend to keep a close watch on the presidential election in Madagascar on [...]
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Kailash Ruhee, Chief of Staff of the office of Prime Minister Navin Ramgooolam, is tipped to become his country’s Ambassador [...]
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The petition calling for light to be shed on the death of the French judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti in [...]
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The Chinese government has decided to supply rolling stock to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (Tazara) to try to revive its moribund [...]
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The government of Kenya is campaigning for its Attorney General Amos Wako to be elected to the legal council of [...]
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The recent expulsion of two members of the European Commission illustrates the extent to which diplomats in Addis Ababa are under surveillance.
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The governor of the central bank has reshuffled the editorial team of the newspaper he owns in order to sideline a partisan of the Mujuru clique.
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The main opposition party has decided to boycott the National Assembly in order to protest against the violence against its leaders and the fines inflicted on the press.
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The visit by the President of the Union to Saudi Arabia paid off. He came home with a $5 million gift that has already been paid into an account with the Central Bank of the Comoros.
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The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco), which for the two decades to 2005 was headed by Zimbabwe’s present Deputy Minister [...]
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Daiho Corporation has just carried off the contract for the construction of the port of Ehoala which will be used by the mining company QMM.
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A court in Nosy-Be decided last week to expel Ilsand Dreams from the Iranja Lodge, whence this company had ousted its rivals in 2005.
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While Airbus is having a hard time trying to interest Ethiopian Airlines in buying its planes, the plans of three other French firms in Ethiopia are going well.
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The latest company to join the Internet supply business is complaining that Kenyan authorities are very slow in attributing licences for new service providers.
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The small company which claims it has an oil permit in South Sudan has let go the Nuer extremist David de Chand.
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The Ethiopian authorities have a wide-ranging line up of plans for the generation and distribution of electricity for the coming years. Their overall value exceeds $2 billion.
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The Kenya Nut Co (KNC), owned by the businessman Pius Ngugi, which up to now specialised in exporting macadamia nuts, [...]
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The property firm Château Immo, based on the Cote d’Azur in the South of France, is setting up a subsidiary [...]
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The plan launched by the government in July 2006 for the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp (TPDC) to import oil has [...]
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After a series of investments in Brinkley Mining, Luba Freeport (Equatorial Guinea) and Fly540 (Kenya), the British company Lonrho Africa [...]
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The Saudi company i2 is the first authorised distributor of Nokia mobile telephone handsets in Sudan, where it has just [...]
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While Prega Ramsamy, the former Secretary Generla of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been designated the interim director [...]
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The general manager of the transport company Megatrans, Nelson Mirbel has filed a large number of suits with the Mauritius [...]
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Unlike the majority of his colleague British Ambassadors in the region, the new High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to [...]
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The CEO of the Canadian mining company St Andrew Goldfieds did not last long in his post and is shortly [...]
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The Djibouti authorities want to make a good impression during [...]
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A new affair has hit the World Intellectual Property Organisation [...]
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The Prime Minister of Mauritius and the Presidents of Uganda [...]
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According to several tallying information sources, the secretary general of [...]
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While the partisans of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) [...]
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A dispute has arisen between Sirama and officials of the [...]
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After recently opening the insurance company Albatros Courtage in Antananarivo, [...]
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The insurance company Hollard Moçambique, a subsidiary of Hollard South [...]
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The Indian company IKT Technologies is to begin cultivating Jatropha [...]
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The Krakow (Poland) based oil and gas exploration company PNiG, [...]
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The number two of Rogers Aviation has been promoted to [...]
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David Roberts resigned from the boards of Absa Group and [...]
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The Zimbabwean Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Gabriel M. Machinga, [...]
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The Kenyan subsidiary of the Canadian company Tiomin has just [...]
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