Support for President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh’s plan to amend the constitution so that he can run for a third mandate in 2011 has been far from unanimous, even within the ruling RPP party and the politically dominant Issaethnic group.
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The kidnapping in Mogadishu on 14 July of two French intelligence agents, who are now in the hands of the [...]
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Certain Muslim dignitaries did not appreciate the fact that Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda made them wait for an hour before receiving them on 5 July.
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A group of Americans went secretly to the Ogaden during June to contact the ONLF. They were arrested, beaten up and then expelled. Except for their translator.
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The government is looking for a way of extricating several top civil servants from the claws of MPs who want them sanctioned for their role in the Richmond affair.
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The Djibouti government would have liked French aid in its fight against Eritrea last year. But Paris would not be drawn in.
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The controversy over the project to work the mineral sands at Kwale in Kenya by the Canadian company Tiomin Resources [...]
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Flora Ecopower’s Ethiopian subsidiary has not closed down. A new team is working to get it going again.
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The Kenyan Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Joseph Muchemi, was right to hang onto his post, against the wishes of [...]
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Five ambitious young lawyers with a well-endowed list of contacts, have just founded a law firm in Kampala called Katutsi, [...]
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A new head of the French economic mission in Ethiopia [...]
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One point provides a clear illustration of the current power [...]
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Faustine Ndungulile took a kind of revenge when was recently [...]
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According to the Ugandan State Minister for International Relations, Okello [...]
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The Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament, Samuel Sitta, has not [...]
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After being a close ally of Algeria for many years [...]
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It will not be long before the company Société Djiboutienne [...]
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The firm Crystal Valuers, one of whose joint top executives [...]
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The Australian company South Boulder Mines, headed by the geologists [...]
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The project to build a 255 MW hydro-electric power station [...]
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The people in charge of the oil companies Range Resources [...]
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Some Merina dignitaries want a single candidate in the next presidential election so as not to lose power.
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The Seychelles government decision to adopt the IMF's recommendations has wrong-footed the opposition. The Seychelles National Party may not recover.
Faced with a waiting game by the Western countries, Harare’s “inclusive” government is looking towards China.
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A French consultancy hired by the HAT is letting uncertainty persist about the legality of Sheritt’s contract.
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A company created a decade ago by the defence ministry is breaking into the mining sector.
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The daily newspaper owned by the La Sentinelle group is to be completely rebranded in order to review its position on the market for morning papers.
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A very embarrassing trade misunderstanding between two Indian former partners in a housing project in Mauritius is on the verge of becoming a diplomatic conflict.
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Dubai World was much quicker in demolishing the Galawa Beach hotel it had bought in 2007 than it was in rebuilding an “international class” establishment on the site.
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The Canadian Jacques Paradis did not leave Madagascar at the same time as he left his job of several years [...]
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On the morning of 24 July, Mejamirado Razafimihary, the former Minister for Industrialisation and present director of the State-owned company [...]
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Cecile Manorohanta, the minister for defence under Marc Ravalomanana, who resigned after demonstrators were killed on 7 February 2009, received [...]
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The publication manager of the La Gazette de la Grande [...]
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Olivia Samora Moises Machel, one of the daughters of the [...]
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The Comoran Minister of the Economy, Ahmed Barwane, got a [...]
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The visit to Antananarivo on 9 July by the Saudi [...]
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More and more foreign companies are taking an interest in [...]
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The Seychelles government has extended its collaboration with the financial [...]
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South African Tourism (SAT) has signed a three year contract [...]
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The Portuguese company Hidroastec, specialised in renewable energy, has created [...]
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This hotel in Maputo, 59% owned by the British group [...]
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