Business leaders and many other circles in Kenyan society (NGOs, journalists and the like) are doing their utmost to prevent the March 4 general election from turning into a remake of the ethnic clashes that followed the ballot in December, [.
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The hair’s breadth victory (50.07%) by Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto in the presidential election on 4 [...]
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Emma Roseline Rasolovoahangy, the president of Petromad Mauritius, which holds rights to the Bezaha exploration block (3114) in the south-west [...]
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Former president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi seized the occasion of ceremonies marking the birth of the prophet Mohammed to make his political comeback in Moroni.
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In his run for the presidency, Uhuru Kenyatta retained the services of a British company to help him appear credible as a candidate. And it seems to be working.
The EPRDF is in the process of putting together the team that will govern the capital following municipal elections in April.
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President Ismail Omar Guelleh will have to prepare his succession in 2016 with a pro-government coalition that is in very poor shape.
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The Hargeisa police Rapid Reaction Unit is secretly detaining more than a hundred people suspected of ties with the Al Shabaab militant Islamist group.
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Mediators are attempting to find common ground among rival factions of EPRDF before the party congress in late March.
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Djibouti’s government is cracking down on Moslem clerics who have been defying it for months.
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Five foreign companies have responded to the call for expressions of interest in the privatisation of Comores Telecom, which was [...]
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Shell’s permit in Somalia has lain idle for decades because of "force majeure" but the company clearly prizes the acreage.
Bankers and foreign investors are voicing alarm about the damaging impact of a shortage of hard currency in Addis Ababa.
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More discreet than her half brother, Malenga Machel, Josina Ziyaya Machel, daughter of late president Samora Machel, owns a stake in a new business venture.
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Air Seychelles pilots sent to Abi Dhabi to receive Airbus flight training from Etihad are still there six months later - but wish they could go home.
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Since Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s historic visit to Mogadishu in August 2011 the Turkish presence in Somalia has continued to grow.
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An Israeli firm is vying with a French company, CPSI, headed by Jean-Joel Ansart to win a contract to provide airport security.
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Having previously focused on the chemical industry and detergent manufacturing sectors, as founder and CEO of the Abcon Group of [...]
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Tanzanian press magnate Reginald Mengi, a friend and backer of President Jakaya Kikwete, appears to have lost confidence in the [...]
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Rachad Farah, Djibouti’s ambassador to Paris, has hired a PR consultant to handle his media campaign for the post of [...]
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Seychellois Barry Laine, 72, who lived in Britain for a number of years and worked in marketing before becoming an [...]
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The young managing director of the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), 38-year-old Joshua Nyamweya Oigara, who has held the post for [...]
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Hajo Andrianainarivelo, the vice prime minister for planning, who will [...]
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Samora Moises Machel Jr, the son of the late president [...]
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After hijacking the only private jet belonging to Eritrean President [...]
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The new U.S. ambassador to Kenya, Robert Codec, plans to [...]
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The Kenyan government has asked the African Union (AU) to [...]
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Jean-Marc Lagesse, who resigned as boss of the NMH group's [...]
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Having still failed to pay a 21,575 rupee (€1350) debt [...]
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According to our sources, the chairman of Kenya's Independent Elections [...]
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President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh is due to visit London to [...]
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The French catering companies Catering International & Services (CIS) and [...]
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Having recently opened offices in Libya and South Sudan, the [...]
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Theprivate investment arm of the World Bank, is going to [...]
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The International Finance Corp, (IFC), a subsidiary of the World [...]
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After the managing director of its affiliate United Petroleum, Collins [...]
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According to a source at Kenya’s finance ministry, the Nairobi [...]
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A 69-year-old French national, Guy Besnardeau, chief executive of the [...]
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A corporate restructuring is continuing to unfold at the Mauritius [...]
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The rising star of the ruling Frelimo party, Sergio Jose [...]
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