The first well has not yet been sunk off the Comoros Islands shores and squabbles are already rife in Moroni over the awarding of oil contracts. It is pitting the Vice President in charge of energy Fouad Mohadji against his [.
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It is becoming clear who will replace the French ambassador to Madagascar, Jean-Christophe Belliard, who has been appointed Africa director [...]
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The power balance in the African National Congress (ANC) is not entirely in President Jacob Zuma’s favour. The 70-year old [...]
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The general secretary of the Indian Ocean Commission (known by its French initials of COI), Jean-Claude De l'Estrac, was everywhere [...]
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Over the last three months, the chairman of the commission working on setting up the new Senate, Ali Mohamed Daoud [...]
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Certain Tigray Regional State leaders have gone to the Afar region twice since the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to admonish the local elders.
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After his Paris based company Orizon Finance was liquidated on 3 October, Philippe Leclerc, Andry Rajoelina’s French advisor, is concentrating on Antananarivo.
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The President of the High Authority for the Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina aka TGV, has still not decided which option to take for the 2013 presidential election.
The armed FRUD carried out some small actions in order to increase the opposition bargaining power in the 2013 elections.
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The minister for security, Mohamed Nour Arale aka Duur, is once again pitted against the UNDP over its plan to reform the police, which he has decided to block.
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The British Prime Minister David Cameron has ignored the request by his Kenyan counterpart Raila Odinga for London to pay compensation to former Mau Mau combatants.
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The defence minister Mohamed Yusuf Haji is furious with the chief of the general staff, General Julius Karangi, who decided to wage a military operation in Garissa without consulting him.
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The former Prime Minister of Mozambique Luisa Dias Diogo has just expanded her scope of activity. She had already formalised [...]
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The Belgian David Verly wants to make the most of his close contact with Jean Omer Beriziky, sometimes presenting himself as his spiritual heir.
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Nairobi takes a dim view of the Rift Valley Railways (RVR) plan to cut its permanent staff – particularly with a general election looming in 2013.
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After keeping a low profile since Mwai Kibaki came to power in 2002, the tycoon Mohammed Sajjad has come discreetly back onto the political scene in Mombasa.
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The State is to hive off the majority of the Banque de Developpement des Comores to a consortium of investment funds and institutional organisms in early 2013.
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Mukesh Valabhji, the former head of the Seychelles Marketing Board and advisor to ex-President France Albert René, has gone into business where he has had his ups and downs.
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The current minister for transport, Paulo Francisco Zucula, has become the majority shareholder in a property company.
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Some calls for tenders have just been issued for studies of the feasibility of building small electricity power stations in Kenya and Uganda. The AFD is at the helm.
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The portfolio of company investments held by Samora Moises Machel Jr, the son of the late President of Mozambique Samora [...]
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The chairman of the special delegation (mayor) of Antananarivo Edgard Razafindravahy known as Bayé, moreover the CEO of Groupe Prey, [...]
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Business is going well for Andry Andriamampianina, the chairman of the Association Professionnelle des Transporteurs Routiers, who is close to [...]
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The Vice President and presidential candidate for March 2013 Kalonzo Musyoka, has just lost his confidant and financial sponsor Johnstone [...]
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The France-Sudan friendship group of the French National Assembly was finally constituted under the chairmanship of the UMP (opposition) MP [...]
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The Ugandan former ambassador Edith Ssempala has moved to a new job, after working for the World Bank for three [...]
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Patrice Tranchant will not finally be the Antananarivo manager of [...]
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A former minister of town and country planning (1997-2002) under [...]
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Olivia Thema Moises Machel, the eldest daughter of the late [...]
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Kenyan businessmen were very disappointed by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam [...]
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President Ikililou Dhoinine had planned to appoint the former Prime [...]
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The Israeli government recently invited the Kenyan defence minister Mohamed [...]
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While on a short visit to Djibouti this week, the [...]
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The renovation of the executive in Ethiopia, which began after [...]
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The subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) specialised in [...]
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(Madagascar) The Frenchman Zouzar Bouka, 42, resident in Antananarivo where [...]
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The commission to privatise Comores Telecom is to issue an [...]
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(Comoros Islands) After a high profile inauguration in Moroni in [...]
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(Kenya) The recent efforts by the South African public relations [...]
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(Mozambique) The world-wide steel group owned by Lakshmi Mittal has [...]
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(Kenya) The French oil distribution company Total Kenya has recorded [...]
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(Mozambique) The wind would seem to have changed in the [...]
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James E. Sinclair, the head of the Canadian company Tanzanian [...]
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The petroleum company Madagascar Oil, which is headed by John [...]
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