In spite of the difficulties, Madagascar is an interesting destination for a good number of companies enticed by the rising price of mineral ore. However, implementing a new mining code is raising concerns among the promoters of certain major mining [.
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Work has still not begun on the work on rebuilding the hospital in Senafe, a full fourteen months after the [...]
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The French authorities of Mayotte made a diplomatic breakthrough during the visit to Madagascar last week of a delegation led [...]
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Prime Minister Hu Jintao of China may negotiate new agreements for oil and mineral exploration there in Kenya while on [...]
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The United States African policy is, for the most part, in the hands of women. President George Bush is advised [...]
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The majority of ambassadors on post in Africa have passed through the Bureau of African Affairs. Scott DeLisi was director [...]
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Although the armed actions by groups opposing the regime in Ethiopia are still very limited in number and in impact, [...]
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The candidate who came first in the primaries in Anjouan last week is forging a variety of alliances ahead of the main election.
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The ONLF has revived its military activity and its diplomatic contacts.
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The small company claiming to have an oil permit in South Sudan has obtained the support of the Nuer, who oppose the Dinka in Salva Kiir’s SPLM.
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The hustings have not yet begun but the debate is rife over a probable presidential election in July.
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Ever since the Somalia trauma in 1993, the United States have balked at sending their "boys" into Africa. The fight [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) is considering investing $20 million in a new regional property [...]
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The company Global Resources wants to generate electricity using a variety of energy resources in the country and then sell it directly to its clients.
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The French Minister Delegate for Cooperation is to go to Antananarivo together with a strong delegation of heads of companies on 11 and 12 May for the convention on decentralised cooperation.
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A leader of the Lawyers' Environmental Action Team suspects the current Deputy Minister of Mines of collusion with mining companies.
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The Reserve Bank has issued a warning to banks who do not comply with the new regulations on minimum capital.
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The Rogers group, whose executives are at the moment on a mission to India, will very likely become the agent for Air India in Mauritius.
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The United States is dangling two carrots in front of African leaders for them to respect good governance and democracy: [...]
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ExxonMobil and Chevron Texaco are the two American oil companies which are the most active on the African continent, where [...]
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American oil companies readily turn to London-based practices for matters of intelligence and security, making them the latter’s main clients. [...]
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The African Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), one of the think tanks of the National Defense University (NDU) based in [...]
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The reputation of the Africa programme of the Center for Strategic And International Studies (CSIS) has been made in particular [...]
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The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University does not have an Africa programme proper, but William [...]
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Georgetown has an Africa department in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, headed by Gwendolyn Mikell. Florida University’s Center [...]
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An affair is the talk of the town in legal circles at Farafangana, on the east coast of Madagascar. Austral [...]
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The French firm Axis Airways based in Marseilles has two separate projects to start operating a service to Mayotte. The [...]
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The Australian firm Range Resources has succeeded in interesting the Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) in its oil exploration permits [...]
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The new person appointed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to head its mission in Khartoum, now [...]
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Madagascar's Aikido pioneer, now aged 69, Sensei Charles Rambeloson, grand master (sixth dan) had still not been paid by the [...]
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The new ambassador of Mozambique to South Africa began his diplomatic career only in 2001. Born in 1944 in the [...]
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The new ambassador of Mozambique to Tanzania is a former Frelimo apparatchik who knows the country well, having lived there [...]
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Bobby J. Pittman Jr has been the new Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs of the State Department since [...]
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Donald Yamamoto, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For African Affairs is in particular a specialist in East Africa. A [...]
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Carol Thompson is the latest arrival at the Bureau of African Affairs. A Californian in her forties, she is a [...]
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Since the emblematic William Thom retired in 2002, the Africa office of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has been run [...]
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Charles Snyder, the United States Special Representative for Sudan is one of the most eminent Africa specialists in the State [...]
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Ned Cabot has been directing the Africa department of the USTDA since October 2004, after spending five yeas at the [...]
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John Richter replaced Annmarie Emmet at the head of the Ex-Im Bank Africa Business Development Group during the summer of [...]
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Stephen Hayes was appointed chief executive director of the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) directly replacing David Miller in September [...]
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The chairman of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) since May 2004 has been Paul Applegarth. This development specialist has spent [...]
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David Goldwyn heads a firm centred on the African oil sector, Goldwyn International Strategies. Successively Chief of Staff of the [...]
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Jack Kemp, an American football ex-champion and former Representative for New York, created Kemp Partners in 2001. His company is [...]
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Herman Cohen, joint founder of Cohen & Woods, is one of the best known Americans in French speaking Africa. A [...]
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Rosa Whitaker, a career diplo-mat, has made her reputation and that of her lobby firm, the Whitaker Group founded in [...]
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Robert Cabelly, a career diplomat, has worked for three Assistant Secretaries for African Affairs - Chester Crocker (during the presidency [...]
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Joseph J. Szlavik, a former advisor to President Georges Bush at the beginning of the 1990s and a lobbyist for [...]
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Frank B. Atkinson and L. F. Payne Jr head McGuireWoods Consulting. This firm won a contract in 2006 to promote [...]
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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Last year, the direct financial operations in Madagascar by Proparco, [...]
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This week Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the UN, [...]
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According to some of his underlings, the new Ambassador of [...]
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An old skeleton has caught up with the former US [...]
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The British former ambassador to Uganda (1997-2000), Michael Cook has [...]
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The risks management company Lloyd’s Register Group has just appointed [...]
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The Indian firm KEC International has just won a sixth [...]
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Construction work is now 80% complete on the unit to [...]
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A new ambassador of Eritrea has presented his credentials to [...]
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The daily newspaper The Guardian, owned by IPP, has just [...]
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The board of the management of the group DFCU has [...]
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Dina Mufti, the former Ethiopian ambassador to Zimbabwe has just [...]
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