After seven weeks of intense mobilisation against the high cost of living, paralysing the island's entire activity, the new 101st French departement began to exit the crisis on 10 November through the deal obtained with all the sides by the [.
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The Seychelles national airline Air Seychelles has found a radical way of saving money and at the same time avoid [...]
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President Yoweri Museveni's visit to Israel from 12 to 14 November was a last minute affair. It had been originally [...]
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Anything that touches on the Afar community that straddles Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, immediately has a regional connotation. A case [...]
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The European Union (EU) and France will soon consider resuming aid to Madagascar. Catherine Ashton, the head of the European [...]
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Former President Albert Zafy has made an unhoped for return to the political scene. He is the new Prime Minister's sponsor and his partisans will have eight portfolios.
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The Malagasy water and electricity company is in debt to major companies. Its creditors find it difficult to get paid unless they have the help of someone at the top.
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Work has still not begun on the two hotels that Qatar promised to refurbish.
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In encouraging Mauritian investment in Africa, the minister of finance is buttering up the Creole electorate. As Pravind Jugnauth did last year with the Hindu vote.
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Business has been in full swing for two years for the head of the Sodiat group. His close relations with President Andry Rajoelina are probably not unrelated to this success.
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Nkutema Namoto Alberto Chipande, the son of Frelimo dignitary retired General Alberto Chipande, is, like his father, interested in the [...]
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The French-Argentinean Mario Sandoval, the vice president of the Association Internationale Francophone d'Intelligence Economique (AIFIE – international French-language economic intelligence [...]
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The chairman of the State Bank of Mauritius (SBM), Muni Krishna Reddy, would not seem to be unduly worried in [...]
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The Unicef officials in Antananarivo have decided to place an [...]
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Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam may have recently issued directives for [...]
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The complaint filed with the Moroni prosecution on 12 September [...]
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The Marovazaha region, in the north-western part of Madagascar about [...]
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After entering into some unsuccessful business ventures in Portugal via [...]
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The Malagasy authorities suspect the Chinese company Yangchang Petroleum Corp [...]
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It's been economy time for the Seychelles national airline since [...]
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Many leading companies in Mauritius are going through a restructuring [...]
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The scathing report written at the end of August by [...]
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Calisto Moises Cossa, who last year was still an advisor [...]
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The Australian mining company listed on the Alternative Investment Market [...]
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The ongoing saga of establishing Banque Populaire Caisse d’Epargne (BPCE) [...]
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Informal negotiations between the Head of State and certain dignitaries in the Catholic Church have resulted in dropping the corruption charges against Gilbert Bukenya.
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Rotary Clubs are hardly a hotbed of subversion. Their bank accounts have nevertheless been frozen.
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Whereas the review of the defence agreements has hit against the problem of training Djibouti army officers (ION 1319), Paris is quite prepared to train the police force.
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Emails from civil servants at the presidency accuse the assistants of Uhuru Kenyatta’s rivals such as Raila Odinga of corruption.
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The Kenyan army is unlikely to alone launch an assault on the Somalian port of Kismayo, an al-Shabaab stronghold. It will have to choose its ally between Gandhi and Madobe.
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Abadi Zemo, the CEO of the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT), a consortium of companies linked to [...]
ETPC, the cement crushing subsidiary of the Colas group in Mayotte, is preparing for a most probably negative result for the year 2011.
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The former minister Wiliam Ruto is not close to becoming a media magnate. His planned newspaper has not seen the light of day and his TV station stopped broadcasting after a few months.
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The small company African Eagle Resources has found in the financial partner it has been looking for during the last two years in the International Finance Corporation.
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The businessman and Kikuyu politician Peter Kuguru may not have the necessary finance to vie for the post of governor [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from a high-ranking official in the Kenyan finance ministry, the Director [...]
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President Mohamed Ahmed Alin of the autonomous administration of Galmudug [...]
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The Seychelles government is looking for a way of protecting [...]
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The American advisors, who will be deployed in Kampala and [...]
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According to our sources, the Attorney General Githu Muigai has [...]
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