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Comoros islands
The French Exporter's Narrow Escape

A French businessman doing business with the Comoros Islands was momentarily detained in Moroni to pay taxes that he didn't owe. [...]

Published on 31/05/2003 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Comoros islands
TRADE INCREASES WITH PARIS

Commercial exchanges between the Comoros Islands and France are on the up and up despite the internal political crisis traversing [...]

Subscribers only 27.06.1998

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

The timetable will be honored, as with electricity-generation, but the privatization of Congo's downstream oil sector will leave a government [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.05.1996

Spotlight | Kenya
ROSY BRETTON WOODS GARDEN

Nairobi's relations with its multilateral fund donors seem to be on the up and up. The World Bank has approved two loans for Kenya totalling US$165 million this week and the IMF, which has just completed a special mission to [.

Subscribers only 03.02.1996

Zimbabwe
HARARE IS NO GOLD MINE

About a hundred French companies attended the conference on Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe organized in Paris on October 25 (ION [...]

Subscribers only 28.10.1995

Spotlight | Comoros islands
THE "BUSINESS" REPUBLIC

The terms under which Sudan Airways were authorized to put on weekly flights between Paris, Khartoum and Moroni (ION N° 670) and the bizarre comings-and-goings of a special counsellor to head of state Said Mohamed Djohar in a bid to [.

Subscribers only 13.05.1995

Algeria
CALL FOR TIGHTER SECURITY FOR LNG

Crews from two French LNG tankers, Tellier and Descartes (40,000 and 50,000 cu.m.) refused to put in at Skikda to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.1995

Comoros islands
MIXED BAG OF AIRLINE PROJECTS

A delegation from the Middle East airline Gulf Air was in Moroni last week to examine the Comoros capital's international [...]

Subscribers only 26.11.1994

Spotlight | The Indian ocean islands
BITTER-SWEET VANILLA

In an urgent bid to fend off the competition from Indonesia and Uganda and from substitute products, vanilla exporting countries of the Indian Ocean region have become embroiled in a fierce price-cutting war which has resulted in sale prices well [.

Subscribers only 02.04.1994

France, The Indian ocean islands
ROBERT ALLO

Robert Allo, a former member of the French ultra-right organization Ordre Nouveau (New Order), has been killed in France in [...]

Subscribers only 02.04.1994

Spotlight | Africa
AIR TRANSPORT CHANGES

New air routes, modernised and re-equipped airports, restructured national airlines, privatisation for some of them, creation of private regional companies, there's every sign that it's boom time for much of the region's air transport system.

Subscribers only 20.11.1993

Mayotte island
FOREIGN TRADE OFF BALANCE

The Institut d'Emission d'Outre Mer (IEOM) annual report due to be published next week is expected to show up the [...]

Subscribers only 23.10.1993

Spotlight | Ethiopia
A FRANCE-U.S. BATTLEGROUND

In spite of the poverty of the peoples and the weakening of the States of the Horn of Africa, this area maintains a strategic value. The truth of this fact was underlined at a meeting on Ethiopia at the Paris [.

Subscribers only 23.01.1993

Spotlight | Southern Africa, The Indian ocean islands
INDIAN OCEAN: A NEW REGIONAL DEAL

The predictable extension of trade relations between members of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) and their neighbours in southern Africa, in particular with the Republic of South Africa, is expected to modify the whole panorama of regional cooperation.

Subscribers only 30.05.1992

Spotlight | Comoros islands
FINANCIAL SCANDAL

The purchase by the Comoros Islands state of over 350 vehicles and machines (tractors, mini-buses, lifts and cement-mixers etc), from Italy a few months ago, has brought to light a hitherto discreet mechanism for political funding.

Subscribers only 18.04.1992

Spotlight | Libya
PRESSURE BUILDS UP

Although it had no bearing on oil, the U.N. Security Council embargo on air travel and arms supplies to Libya, to come into effect on April 15, nonetheless ruffled oil markets. On one hand, the industry is concerned over the [.

Subscribers only Energy 04.04.1992

Libya
ANTI EMBARGO PRECAUTION

Libya is taking steps in the oil sector to anticipate eventual economic sanctions that could flow from the U.N. Security [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.02.1992

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Successive arrests of "moles" over the past few weeks in Paris and London have followed the defection in late July [...]

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Comoros islands TRADE INCREASES WITH PARIS

Congo PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

Spotlight | Kenya ROSY BRETTON WOODS GARDEN

Zimbabwe HARARE IS NO GOLD MINE

Spotlight | Comoros islands THE "BUSINESS" REPUBLIC

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Comoros islands MIXED BAG OF AIRLINE PROJECTS

Spotlight | The Indian ocean islands BITTER-SWEET VANILLA

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Spotlight | Africa AIR TRANSPORT CHANGES

Mayotte island FOREIGN TRADE OFF BALANCE

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Spotlight | Southern Africa, The Indian ocean islands INDIAN OCEAN: A NEW REGIONAL DEAL

Spotlight | Comoros islands FINANCIAL SCANDAL

Spotlight | Libya PRESSURE BUILDS UP

Libya ANTI EMBARGO PRECAUTION

VIKTOR OSCHENKO'S NETWORK

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Ivory Coast
French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Comoros islands
The French Exporter's Narrow Escape

Comoros islands
TRADE INCREASES WITH PARIS

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

Spotlight | Kenya
ROSY BRETTON WOODS GARDEN

Zimbabwe
HARARE IS NO GOLD MINE

Spotlight | Comoros islands
THE "BUSINESS" REPUBLIC

Algeria
CALL FOR TIGHTER SECURITY FOR LNG

Comoros islands
MIXED BAG OF AIRLINE PROJECTS

Spotlight | The Indian ocean islands
BITTER-SWEET VANILLA

France, The Indian ocean islands
ROBERT ALLO

Spotlight | Africa
AIR TRANSPORT CHANGES

Mayotte island
FOREIGN TRADE OFF BALANCE

Spotlight | Ethiopia
A FRANCE-U.S. BATTLEGROUND

Spotlight | Southern Africa, The Indian ocean islands
INDIAN OCEAN: A NEW REGIONAL DEAL

Spotlight | Comoros islands
FINANCIAL SCANDAL

Spotlight | Libya
PRESSURE BUILDS UP

Libya
ANTI EMBARGO PRECAUTION