A large number of Sudanese businessmen, many of them close supporters of the government in Khartoum, take advantage of the oil windfall. Two local private firms are thus directly involved in exploring for oil and working it, while a host [.
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The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), an organisation fighting for the independence of the Ogaden province in Ethiopia, claimed responsibility [...]
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While French heads of companies living in Antananarivo, such as Pierre Mondy, the CEO of Medical International, do not hide [...]
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The current actions of the Somalian Transitional Federal Government (TFG) are starting to be a source of considerable irritation to [...]
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Roland Ratsiraka, the ousted mayor of Toamasina and unsuccessful candidate in the December 2006 presidential election, was arrested at midday [...]
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President Isaias Afwerki has just appointed his virtually immovable minister of education to the post of minister for foreign affairs, [...]
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A delegation of about a hundred Chinese company executives, led by the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese [...]
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The Ethiopian government put Kumsa Geda, one of the leaders of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, Ethiopian armed opposition) on [...]
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According to The Campaign for Transparent Management, Juan Jose Daboub, the managing director of the World Bank, personally intervened to [...]
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In spite of his numerous detractors inside the government, General Mohammed Hussein Ali would appear to be well placed to [...]
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At least two of the new administrators of the holding company that umbrellas ZANU PF companies are close allies of Solomon Mujuru, the Vice President’s husband.
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The strong-arm way the president of the Constitutional Court was replaced, with the approval of the President, is worrying the international community.
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The minister of finance ordered a number of budgetary restrictions before setting off on a flight to Washington.
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For several months now the minister of justice has put the measures to make it easier for foreign legal practices to open branches in Mauritius on the back burner.
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Since the bloody confrontations at the end of March, a large part of the Hawiye community wants Ethiopian troops to leave Mogadishu.
The minister of finance has completely reshuffled his team in the hope of settling the nagging problem of the poor image of tax collection.
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At least two of the shareholders in the mysterious Tanzania Green Co (TGC) created on 22 May 2003 are dignitaries [...]
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Khartoum is currently awarding contracts for the production Sudanese e-passports to several European companies.
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A delegation of representatives of NGOs and trade unions is to go to three countries in Southern Africa on a fact-finding mission about the conditions of the British security company’s employees.
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The outgoing chairman of the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry has castigated the creeping devaluation of the rupee against the major international currencies.
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After having long been the preserve of the two main French banks, Djibouti is now distributing banking licences right left and centre.
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The authorities in Port Louis want to attract some large Indian fortunes to invest in their island.
The explosion in oil prices and the deterioration in cash crop exports have eaten into the 2006 trade balance.
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The new head of the Direction de la Sécurité Présidentielle(DSP) is one of a handful of Madagascan officers on the [...]
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Dominique Decherf59, is to replace Jean-Paul Angelier at the head of the french embassy in Djibouti at the beginning of [...]
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The French government has just accepted the accreditation of the new Ambassador of the Comoros to Paris (ION 1193). Born [...]
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Appointed French Ambassador to Eritrea at 62, Pierre Coulont is an alumnus of the Saint-Cyr military school and has spent [...]
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The London based World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), has a new Africa consultant in the person of David Frost, [...]
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The Consul General of the Comoros in Tunisia is a former top international civil servant at the World Bank and [...]
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A top civil servant in the French ministry of defence [...]
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The director of Radio One, Jacques Maunick who had spent [...]
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Following his defeat in the presidential election in December 2006, [...]
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Contrary to our article in ION 1211, the Diamond Trust [...]
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After Morocco opened an embassy in Madagascar, the relations between [...]
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An investigation into the civil service in Zanzibar has disclosed [...]
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Since April 1st, Mayotte stopped using the Comoros Islands telephone [...]
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According to a Ugandan military source, the government of Kampala [...]
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The German director general of Jirama (water and electricity utility [...]
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The son of the former governor of Inhambane Province, Francisco [...]
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The firm China Camc Engineering (CAMCE) sent a delegation of [...]
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A company specialised in tax-exempt property investment, Outremer Finance Océan [...]
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Zimbabwe Reinsurance (Zimre) has just created a subsidiary in Maputo [...]
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The logistics and transport subsidiary of the French group Bolloré [...]
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The Canadian group which has just had its oil exploration [...]
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A Saudi Arabian company has been operating internal flights within [...]
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The Canadian mining company already present in Mozambique is to [...]
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The company based in Antananarivo and under the management of [...]
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The American Internet search engine Google has joined forces with [...]
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This South African firm is opening a new branch in [...]
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