For several months Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been actively working to protect his position in the 23 May general election to turn the page on the insult in 2005 when the opposition won the poll in the capital (ION [.
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President Barack Obama caused a commotion in Maputo on 1st [...]
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The transition government of Prime Minister Camille Vital is planning [...]
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The Djibouti army wants to strengthen the country’s border controls [...]
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The Somalian Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has for the last few months been promising a major military offensive which should [...]
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Raila Odinga’s post of Prime Minister is due to disappear after the new constitution has been voted. He is therefore staking all on the 2012 presidential election.
Paris is finding it difficult to evaluate its long term needs for military presence in Djibouti. For their part, the Djiboutians see mainly the financial side of things.
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The government party has discreetly circulated a list of potential candidates for the next parliamentary election, in order to test their popularity informally.
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The new government appointed by Prime Minister Camille Vital on 24 May is packed with military officers and high-ranking civil servants from the previous regime.
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A recent report from the American GAO asked the Ministry for Defense to shed light on the future of its task force in the Horn of Africa.
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The Malagasy government, running short of cash, is looking for possible ways of raking in money. This includes putting a [...]
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The new minister of finance owes favours to so many people that he will have his work cut out to place them all in responsible posts.
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After Mumias Sugar Co, Unilever Tea Kenya will be the country’s second major electricity consumer to start generating its own hydro-electric power.
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The consortium running UEDCL is to study the reasons it is losing electricity as well as creating a special police unit to hunt down freeloaders.
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The battle between the Kenya Revenue Authority and the cigarette manufacturer has become something of an annual ritual. 2010 was no exception to the “tradition”.
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A delegation of ten representatives from French firms is to make a tour of administrations and groups in the oil-related sector in Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania.
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The former Minister for Finance Abdul Magid Osman has just created a new company in Maputo together with his previous partners in Epsilon Investimentos.
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One of the directors of a small company listed in London has an extensive range of contacts in Mozambique.
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Samuel Assefa has still not found a new job in Addis Ababa since he was recalled from his post of [...]
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Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka made his head of press relations, Brown Kutswa, pay for the poor media coverage he has [...]
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Sikander Lalani, the owner of the firm Roofings, the largest manufacturer of steel construction material in Uganda, has appealed to [...]
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A partner in the firm Sigée Finance, Guillemette Guilbaud, is to take up a seat on the board of the [...]
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Up to now, Pauline Ferrari has been known mainly for her involvement in favour of freedom of the press and [...]
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The Sultan of Tadjourah, Abdoulkader Houmed Mohamed, wrote to The [...]
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Former President Didier Ratsiraka is still very much a stickler [...]
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Already a manager in the import-export company Dourdour and a [...]
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A special meeting of Honorary Consuls of the Seychelles in [...]
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You should not change a winning team! That is the [...]
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President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi has found a legal quibble in [...]
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After resigning last week from his position as Vice Chairperson [...]
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The High Authority for Transition (HAT), whose chairman is Andry [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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No sooner had the firm Invesco Assurance lifted its head [...]
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The Sudanese businessman Ashraf Said Ahmed Hussein, a magnate in [...]
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The Indian citizen Saravanan Ramdoss has flair. He was the [...]
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An entrepreneur from Hyderabad (India) is to go into mining [...]
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Faisal Mohamed Moalin, the CEO of Vista Hodlings International registered [...]
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Two Madagascan former civil servants whose work involved them in [...]
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Two Israeli businessmen who are already active in the sale [...]
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The Tanzanian government has given its agreement to the British [...]
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Last February, the Mauritius based Afrasia Bank, whose chairman is [...]
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