Over the years, President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) has taken the maximum advantage of his country's geo-strategic position, as far as making it a key element in the international fight against terrorism in the Horn of Africa and beyond.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to receive Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG), his opposite number from Djibouti, in Paris at 5 [...]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his interest in going on a tour of East Africa during the Cabinet meeting [...]
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Alexander Rondos, a Greek diplomat born in Tanzania in 1954, has just been appointed European Union (EU) Special Envoy to [...]
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The Sudanese government has just taken on a lobbyist in Washington, United States to try to lift American sanctions against [...]
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga is finding it difficult to get the same support from Muslim leaders for the 2012 presidential election that he had in 2007.
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The Kenyan army cannot afford to carry through the war that it has undertaken against al Shabaab. It now intends to do so through the African Union Mission on Somalia.
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At least two sensitive subjects were discussed during the meeting on November 27, between Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh and his counterpart from Somaliland.
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The Djibouti government is working at dismantling one by one the trade partnerships with Dubai instigated by the opponent Abdourahman Boreh.
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The prefet Thomas Degos was in trouble after the recent series of strikes and contested by the unions and by certain elected officials in Mayotte. But he has now got over it.
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The activism of Massai groups and environmental NGOs is preventing the National Cement Company from installing its clinker plant south of Nairobi.
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The French Minister for Cooperation Henri de Raincourt and the Medef International delegation should cross each other in Dar es Salaam on 11 December.
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Saudi-Ethiopian magnate Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi has mastered the art of recruiting former government officials to lead his companies.
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Slovakia's Ambassador to Ethiopia, Milan Dubcek, 41, should soon return to Addis Ababa after being recalled to his country in [...]
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As forecast by The Indian Ocean Newsletter several months ago (ION 1304), John Njiraini is still the preferred candidate of [...]
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The Member of Parliament for Naivasha, John Mututho, has a knack for alienating employers’ lobbies in various sectors. He was [...]
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Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT), which has been broadcasting from Europe [...]
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The new Somaliland Minister for Security, Mohamed Nour Arrale known [...]
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The fact that the media magnate Samuel Kamau Macharia accompanied [...]
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Foreign diplomats stationed in Juba have little opportunity to appreciate [...]
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A group of British supporters of the Hargeisa government has [...]
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The chairman of the Fédération des entreprises de Djibouti (FED), [...]
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The plans of the American company Freedom Works to build [...]
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An Egyptian group has just moved to Djibouti to pave [...]
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Relations between the Ethiopian national airline Ethiopan Airlines (EAL), and [...]
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The CEO of Standard Group, Paul Melly, is in a [...]
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The executives of the Kenya Broadcasting Corp (KBC, State-owned) fear [...]
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Prime Minister Omer Beriziky wants to win against President Andry Rajoelina on issues under his jurisdiction, while liberating himself from his sponsor Albert Zafy. A difficult task!
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The distribution of seats in the transition institutions was the outcome of political bargaining rather than elections. Certain families are well represented in them. Here are some examples!
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The three shareholders who created the firm Pequenos Libombos Holdings in October to operate in the areas of generating, sale [...]
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After Nantulo Minas and Mineiras de Moçambique, retired General Alberto Joaquim Chipande is involved in creating a new mining company.
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A Portuguese company specialised in installing high voltage lines has found influential partners to help it gain a foothold in Maputo.
State expenditure on the Air Seychelles fleet could cause a shortage of foreign exchange - a replay of what happened two years ago, before the rupee was devalued.
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Despite all it had going for it (ION 1321), the Tanzanian group Bakhresa lost the contract for handling operations in the port of Moroni in favour of the duo Cofipri/Bolloré.
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The future counsellor of the Comoros Islands delegation to UNESCO in Paris, Moncef Saïd Ibrahim, had a narrow escape. He [...]
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The next South African ambassador to Madagascar should be Gert J. Grobler, a career diplomat since 1970. He has held [...]
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The former director general (DG) of the Comoros customs, Mohamed Daoudou, known as Kiki, who was dismissed from his post [...]
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A positive outcome came of the meeting on 15 November [...]
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The American businessman John Ferry will think twice before he [...]
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Hadidja Aboubakar Ikililou Dhoinine, the wife of the President of [...]
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The Romanian businessman Nechifor Danut Mirel, who in his country [...]
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A company from the Indian sub-continent, Titan Resources, has begun [...]
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The Tanzanian group Bakhresa that was just pipped to the [...]
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