For the last six months ,a "political biography of Thabo Mbeki and the ANC in power" has been all the rage with the public but not at all in the South African media. Indeed, the latter are fully aware of [.
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After numerous hesitations due to the thorny Cahora Bassa issue, President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique finally accepted the invitation to [...]
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The Liberal International is looking to extend its influence on the continent of Africa beyond the group of four parties [...]
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The experts of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) based in Asmara were quite right to consider [...]
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The present director general of the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS), Wilson Boinett, is to leave his functions at the [...]
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The Ethiopian opposition came out of the parliamentary election in May with increased strength. But it has began to fall apart since the new Parliament was installed in mid October.
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The government of South Sudan designated by Salva Kiir makes more room for his followers than to those of his predecessor, the late leader of the SPLM, John Garang.
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Following their success in the parliamentary elections on 29 September, the two opposition parties are negotiating the share out of the top posts in the new Parliament in Hargeisa.
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IMF loans come to an end in December. It is possible that they may not be renewed, at the request [...]
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A major battle is going on in the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) for the post of commissioner of customs and excises left vacant by the death of Francis Thuranira in September.
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The Lebanese Fransabank and the Kuwaiti Aref Investment are to set up Capital Bank in Khartoum.
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Very active in the distribution sector, the British firm Mocoh has just acquired an exploration permit for the west coast of Madagascar.
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The 2005 DTI report on “offset” programmes of the arms groups paints a picture of the “good” and “bad” pupils. We investigate.
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A high-powered American agribusiness mission went to Madagascar for the first time on 27 to 29 October, before going on to South Africa.
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The Minister of Trade Mukisha Kituyi outlined the new measures to revive foreign investment in Kenya, to Parliament in mid [...]
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Last week the Ethiopian government awarded a vast exploration permit in the Ogaden basin, in the Ferfer and Abred regions, [...]
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The private Thai group Electricity Generating PCL (EGCO), has submitted a project to Khartoum, in conjunction with the Thai national [...]
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Following the article "Two fishing farms blacklisted" (ION 1148), the general secretary of the Unima group, Bertrand Coüteaux wrote to [...]
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The AfriCap fund specialised in micro-finance has just invested in the capital of la Socremo Banco de Microfinancas (SBM). AfriCap [...]
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Chairman of the board of the Commercial Bank of Africa, the Kenyan lawyer of Indian extraction Mirabeau Da Gama Rose [...]
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Born on 28 January 1954 in Antananarivo, Jean-Pierre Rakotonirina, a merina, married and father of five, was appointed secretary general [...]
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The government of President Robert Mugabe has appointed one of its supporters to the chair of the Zimbabwe International Trade [...]
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The new permanent representative of Somalia to the UN, Elmi Ahmed Duale, has a longstanding experience of international organisations. A [...]
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President and founder of the Oklahoma based company Afar Exploration, William C. Athens has just asked the Ethiopian authorities for [...]
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It was Bruno Minas, the permanent correspondent of RFI (Radio [...]
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Stephen Hayes, the chairman of the Corporate Council on Africa [...]
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Interviewed by Washington File, Herman Cohen, the former Assistant Secretary [...]
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According to our sources, Kessie Naidu, the lawyer defending the [...]
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The President of Puntland won’t let go. Since October 2002, [...]
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The Kenyan national airline has just inaugurated a route to [...]
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The South African group De Beers has just formed a [...]
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One of the leading South African property groups, Sanlam Properties, [...]
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Standard Chartered Zimbabwe has announced that it has raised nearly [...]
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Four MPs strongly involved in Sudanese affairs inaugurated a Sudan [...]
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President Yoweri Museveni restructured the high command of the Uganda [...]
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