Apart from the notorious wheeler-dealing of gen. Salim Saleh, brother of president Yoweri Museveni, business fever appears to be increasingly gripping the Kampala government and officials at State House. Over the years, ministers have built small commercial empires for themselves, [.
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The French foreign ministry has suggested to the French security firm Secopex that it offer its services to the United [...]
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The recent improvement in Tanzania's roads has paradoxically caused a headache to insurance companies which are now calling for the [...]
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The firm Econet Kenya has only a month left to pay out $25 million for the Kenya's third cellular telephone [...]
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The British firm Dana Petroleum is scheduled to begin drilling next year on two exploration concessions in Kenya's offshore, blocks [...]
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Taylor Smith has broken off his long-term relationship with the Rogers group in order to form his own holding concern, Taylor Smith Holdings.
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With its annual conference only weeks away, the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry finds itself once again torn by internal rifts.
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A network of Madagascar-based Christian businessmen is seeking to make further headway on the island and spread its wings across the Indian Ocean.
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Adorned with the title of Reforms Coordinator, which doesn't exist in the organizational chart of Madagascar's finance ministry, Johnson Randrianirina [...]
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Negociations on increasing Mozambique's stake in Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) are fast gathering steam.
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An audit of Comoros' budget for the first half of 2004 has turned up glaring irregularities on the part of the Union, Anjouan and Moheli.
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Pretoria's new ambassador to Comoros, Masilo Esau Mabeta, is a former top official of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) headed [...]
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The president of Mayotte's Syndicat Mixte d'Investissement et d'Amenagement (SMIAM), Soibahaddine Ibrahim, was elected to the French Senate on Sept. [...]
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The CEO of the South African Post Office, Maanda Benjamin Manyatshe, has just been named managing director of the cellular [...]
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The leader of Partido Independente de Mocambique (PIMO), Ya-Qub Salomao Sibindy, has announced he is running in the December presidential [...]
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The Uganda army calls frequently upon Israeli assistance, whether to purchase armaments or build military schools.
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USAID is financing a NGO that is representing former Kenyan political prisoners asking compensation from the government.
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Several historic leaders of the governing Frelimo party have felt orphaned ever since Graca Machel, the country's former first lady [...]
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The revival of the case concerning the death of a French magistrate in Djibouti has brought to mind the bomb blast at the Café de Paris in 1990.
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The president of the island's General Council has written to the French interior minister to complain about the behaviour of the local head of the police intelligence agency Renseignement Generaux.
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A humanitarian initiative by Israel's ambassador to Ethiopia, Doron Grossman, and Israel's Save a Child's Heart Foundation has triggered a [...]
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A farewell party for France's consul in Madagascar at the latter's residence on Sept. 24 wasn't the most joyful of [...]
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American diplomats seem to be falling over one another to visit Comoros. The economic councilor at the U.S. embassy in [...]
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President Thabo Mbeki's economic adviser has finally been permitted to [...]
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Two new ministers of state have been named in the [...]
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The chief of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO), Mesfin [...]
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The president of the Hamburg chamber of commerce, Hans Jorg [...]
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The boss of Grands Magasins de Madagascar SA, Cyril Juge, [...]
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The world leader in distributing alcoholic beverages (spirits, wine and [...]
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The public relations concern Hunton & Williams LLP registered with [...]
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Before officially recognizing the Sahraoui Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), South [...]
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The chief-of-staff of Ethiopia's army, gen. Samora Yunis, has run [...]
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The absence of Kenyan president Mwaki Kibaki at the opening [...]
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A visit to Ethiopia that the African section president of [...]
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Lloyd Pierson, the new assistant administrator for Africa at the [...]
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The World Bank is scheduled on Oct. 14 to approve [...]
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