The Open Sky may have been decreed, but this deregulation is not necessarily coupled with opening the Madagascan flight routes to all the airlines that want to fly there. Indeed, bilateral agreements take priority over all other considerations, due to [.
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The NGo Global Witness was created in 1992 by Charmian Gooch, Patrick Alley and Sim Taylor its present director. They [...]
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The NGO Christian Aid has decided on a very massive expansion of its aid to Sudan. Christian had recently drawn [...]
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Oxfam, a confederation of 12 organisations, is the most powerful NGO in the world. In 2005 it created an oil [...]
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The Rift Valley Institute, an NGO based in London and Kenya, is specialised in East Africa and particularly in Sudan. [...]
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The United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) is to [...]
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The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) of India [...]
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David Hampshire, the former CEO of Diago Africa, retired in 2005 but was nonetheless hired in 2006 as director by [...]
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Richard Dowden, the director of the Royal African Society (RAS), is a recognised journalist specialising in Africa and is at [...]
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Jonathan Lawley was recently appointed consultant to the West Africa Business Association (WABA) in order to set up the Southern [...]
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Christopher Clapham, professor of political science at the University of Lancaster, is the editor of Modern African Studies, one of [...]
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Michael Twaddle, historian and political commentator, deputy director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London, specialises [...]
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Patrick Orr, via his firm Raitt Orr & Associates, handles, among other things, public relations for the government of Kenya [...]
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The person who has been the Director General of the Eastern Africa Association (EAA) since 1999 is still in his [...]
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Kroll's former managing director in charge of Africa and natural resources, André Pienaar created the Good Governance Group (G3) in [...]
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While still an analyst for Old Mutual, Hendrik du Toit, a thirty year old South African, took a risk of [...]
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A former Private Secretary and subsequently Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair, after having been John Major’s Principal [...]
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Before being made deputy secretary general of the Commonwealth in London, Florence Mugasha, had been the Head of Public Service [...]
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Ambassador to Tanzania since April 2006 and a former director of the counter-terrorist unit of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [...]
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Charles Davy, the rich businessman at the head of HHK Safari in Zimbabwe, and father of Prince Harry’s girlfriend Chelsea, [...]
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Justin Forsyth was appointed Tony Blair’s special advisor on international development in December 2004, just before the United Kingdom began [...]
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James Bevan, Africa director of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), is not always in the front line of Tony [...]
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Just a few days after his 49th birthday, Ernesto Gove this week took up his new post of governor of [...]
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The new German Ambassador to Antananarivo presented his credentials to President Marc Ravalomanana on 26 July, after being hurriedly appointed [...]
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The board of Nib International Bank has just promoted its deputy chairman, Amerga Kassa to the post of chairman. He [...]
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Brigadier General Bruno Clément-Bollée, higher command of the Forces Armées françaises dans la Zone Sud de l’Océan Indien (FAZSOI) is [...]
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In order to reinforce their position in Africa, British law firms frequently form alliances with local partners who are well [...]
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The London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) with its simplified rules is becoming, after Toronto, a new Far West for Juniors [...]
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The firm Comair, which operates the companies British Airways and kulula.com in South Africa, is to sell 16.1% of its [...]
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The American firm B&E Engineers is to carry out a study by the end of the year on the viability [...]
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Jean-Claude de l’Estrac, the boss of L’Express in Mauritius, is currently managing several simultaneous crises. The morning paper he runs [...]
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A new property company was created at the beginning of the year, called CGMI- Promoçao, Gestao e Madiaçao Imobiliaria Lda. [...]
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The British Ambassadors on post in Africa have all spent time in the splendid imperial wood panelled rooms of the [...]
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Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Africa policy is all cooked up in one kitchen, that of the Department For International Development [...]
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A growing number of members of MI6 and British servicemen are going into the private sector to head economic intelligence [...]
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Tony Blair doesn’t have a network of African advisors, but calls on former members of the NGO Oxfam or his [...]
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The Minister of Trade and Industry, Nazir Mustafa Karamagi (ION 1166) has not come to the end of the problems [...]
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The arrival of President Sambi to power has not put an end to the conflicts of competency between the government of the Union and those of the autonomous islands.
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The partisans of the Ethiopian government in the United States are making endless propaganda on the radio against the hard wing of the opposition.
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Following the victory of their candidates in the parliamentary by-elections, Kibaki may decide to promote the leaders of the Narc-Kenya into his government.
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President Armando Guebuza listened attentively to the practical difficulties listed by representatives of companies operating in his country during a lunch hosted by Medef International.
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President Armando Guebuza’s trip to Europe, when he went to France and the Benelux countries, did nothing to speed up [...]
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An international conference on maritime security in East Africa and the South Eastern Indian Ocean was held for the first [...]
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The representatives of the governments of Tanzania and Qatar this week signed an agreement in Doha for trade cooperation in [...]
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The first "military" contract between Iran and Uganda should take the form of a joint venture between an Iranian tractor [...]
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Local operators are complaining that the support the company Maersk Tanzania has been getting from the government is resulting in unfair competition.
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A group of German firms specialised in the renewable energy sector are to go on a prospecting mission to Mauritius and Reunion Island in October.
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The East African subsidiary of the Libyan company Tamoil is the best placed to win the contract to extend the Kenyan Mombasa/Eldoret pipeline to Kampala.
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A German firm has gained a foothold in Kenya when it acquired the majority of the equity of a British company specialised in gas for industry and medical services. BOC Kenya is also on the way to taking control of its rival Carbacid.
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The French cement manufacturer Lafarge has sold some of its activity to a black consortium which is 40% owned by the women’s’ investment company Peotona Group Holdings and 60% by mining company Motjoli Resources.
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Two men are neck and neck to become the next [...]
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According to a source in the Ethiopian opposition, protests are [...]
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The British company Aggreko Plc has just won two energy [...]
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The executives and consultants of the Australian company Range Resources [...]
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The firm Cotecna contacted The Indian Ocean Newsletteron 24 July [...]
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The new Tanzanian Ambassador to Italy has just presented his [...]
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The oil and gas prospecting company Madagascar Oil (MOL) has [...]
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The Bureau Indépendant Anti-corruption (Bianco) has a new press officer. [...]
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The Secretary of State for Revenue, Tezera Wadajo, has just [...]
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