President Marc Ravalomanana's political initiatives are going down less and less well with a population confronted with a worsening everyday situation. The Christian churches have distanced themselves from several government projects. Consequently, the President is taking a hard line with [.
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The hotel company Sovereign Hospitality Holdings (SHH) owned by the [...]
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Since the EPRDF came to power in Addis Ababa in [...]
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Teddy Wan, the general manager of La Sentinelle, the press [...]
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The Department for International Development (DFID) announced in Kampala last [...]
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The first signs of instability have made their appearance in the grand government coalition in Kenya with the recriminations made [...]
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President Mwai Kibaki’s efforts to unify the Kikuyu under the banner of a single party before he leaves power in 2012 are increasingly compromised.
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Zanu-PF is buttering up one of its former dissidents, the only independent MP to be elected to Parliament.
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Even the press bosses with a reputation of being close to government are not immune to being put in prison.
The Ethiopian government has given the green light to a group of mediators to try to cajole the two competing wings of the Oromo Liberation Front.
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The children of the late President Samora Machel, like those of his successor Joaquim Chissano, are still very active in the business world.
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The Uganda North American Association conference this week-end should tackle some delicate political problems.
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Obliged to leave, the director of customs Bert Cunningham left a political minefield behind him.
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Some months ago the head of the Tanzanian law firm Mkono & Co Associates, who is incidentally also an MP [...]
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The mining company Camec owned by the British national Phil Edmonds has just created a company in Maputo to diversify into agriculture and meat export.
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The Mauritius group did not want to follow the line of its partners into a legal confrontation with the State Investment Corporation over the subject of a contract to run the national lottery.
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President Michel avoids using his country’s national airline for his travel abroad.
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One of the leading South African legal practices has hired two well-known Kenyan lawyers to gain a foothold there, sidestepping local legislation.
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The Nairobi bus company is turning towards transporting tourists as a way of making ends meet.
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After a first wave in 2005, a number of new international companies are prospecting Madagascar with the aim of growing jatropha to make biodiesel.
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The honeymoon period following the military operation in Anjouan is now over. President Sambi is facing a major economic crisis that is shaking his power.
This lawyer, an advisor to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) and partisan of President Mwai Kibaki, has had the wind [...]
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The chairman of the board of Air Madagascar is fast becoming the new strongman of Toamasina, on the east coast [...]
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The new Sudanese Ambassador to France, who has arrived in Paris but not yet presented his credentials, is a man [...]
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The Djibouti Consul to Uganda, who is resident in Kampala, is expanding his activity in Burundi. Mohamed Silas Majyambere has [...]
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After many years of protracted legal proceedings, the Stanbic Bank Tanzania (ION 1073) finally won its case against a businessman [...]
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The general manager of the Indian company Patel Engineering is the spearhead for the company’s implantation into the Mozambican mining [...]
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From his wheelchair in the United States where he is [...]
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The Indian Manoj Kumar Vasudev Sompura has very good connections [...]
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The Indian Ambassador to Madagascar Azad Singh Toor, felt too [...]
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The French Minister for Defence, Hervé Morin, has told Intelligence [...]
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The Polish embassy and consulate in Dar es-Salaam are both [...]
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For several years, the Association of retired Seychellois Seamen (ARSS) [...]
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As from 1 September, following a decision made by the [...]
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Roel Vaessen, General Secretary of the European Coffee Federation (ECF) [...]
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Shipra Tripathi, who is in charge of the Africa divsision [...]
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The principal Indian private mining company in the gold exploration [...]
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( ) The South African airline was quick of the [...]
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( ) After placing a former Tanzanian top civil servant, [...]
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( ) According to La Lettre A(published by the Indigo [...]
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Six consultants are in the running for a contract to [...]
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The Belgian brewery Unibra is undergoing considerable expansion in Africa, [...]
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The Seychelles government has found prospective buyers, a group of [...]
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( ) After selling 20% of its offshore exploration permit [...]
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( ) A big first in Ethiopia for this Saudi [...]
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