The Muslims (Khodja, Borha or Ismaïliens) in Madagascar are in a minority compared to Christians or animists but a majority among the Karana population (Indo-Pakistani in origin) and have long been content with carrying on with their business discreetly.
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The officers of the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) from Buganda are going through a deep malaise. Buganda is the [...]
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William Ruto, Secretary General of Kanu (opposition) is considering an alliance with the Minister Raila Odinga ahead of the 2007 presidential election.
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The Federal government is busy cutting back the power of the local authority of Addis Ababa before it goes into the hands of the opposition which won the elections in the capital.
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The wife of the former President of the Seychelles has just sold one of her plots of land that she had bought from the government in Victoria.
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Two days after the announcement of a new government of the Union, the President of the island of Njazidja has reshuffled his government team.
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About a dozen French company heads are to accompany President Jacques Chirac when he visits Madagascar next week. Among them [...]
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The British development aid agency has begun to fund contracts for consultants in various areas.
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The tourist promotions operator Mauro Rovero, who runs the company ProjetMayotte, is negotiating a new hotel development project on the island.
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According to information gathered in Victoria by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the Seychelles Pension Scheme (SPS) has acquired a 27% [...]
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About twenty Zimbabwean firms recently turned towards the Zimbabwe Investment Centre (ZIC) to ask this State organism for support in [...]
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The leading chain of private clinics outside the USA, Netcare, may abandon its $50 million plan to build a hospital [...]
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The Tanzanian businessman Reginald Mengi, who already has a strong presence in the media sector in his country with IPP [...]
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After the investment fund Apax Partners France which recently bought the 39.5% held by Air Liquide in the French firm [...]
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A court of trade arbitration has condemned the Italian company Cogefar to pay damages to the government of Zanzibar.
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The Prime Minister has dissolved the boards of several State firms. Significant restructuring is expected.
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President Assoumani Azali has removed the governor of the Banque Centrale des Comores from his post, after he was released from prison.
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Kailash Purryag, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997-2000) of the previous government of Navin Ramgoolam has [...]
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John W. Limbert has finally taken up the function of chargé d'affaires at the American embassy in Khartoum, at the [...]
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President Thabo Mbeki has just designated Paris Mashile, one of the councillors of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa [...]
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Alain Djacoba Tehindrazanarivelo, the chairman of Enina, an association of Madagascan opponents in France, is one of those young executives [...]
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The Malagasy government is examining a request for accreditation by the British lawyer, John Ffooks, as Consul for Wales to [...]
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The governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), Tito Mboweni thinks the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa [...]
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After a first prospection mission in April 2005, five South African company heads intend to go back to Antananarivo in [...]
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The western diplomats on post in Addis Ababa would seem to have abandoned the idea of finding a way out [...]
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Djuma Alfani has just been appointed ambassador of the Democratic [...]
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The firm Société immobilière de Mayotte (SIM) chaired by Bacar [...]
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Ms Bisrat Tenawgasha, a member of the EPRDF (Ethiopian governing [...]
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The lawyer Philippe Boullé has been appointed chairman of Barclays [...]
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After two years of forced absence, Pierre-Guy Noël has been [...]
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The Office des mines nationales et des industries stratégiques (Omnis) [...]
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The Irish mineral water company Tipperary Water has just concluded [...]
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [...]
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The Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) designated this [...]
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General Jean Jacques Rasolondrainibe of the gendarmerie, who had been [...]
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President Mwai Kibaki intends to renovate his three State Houses [...]
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The executives of the Djibouti national police force have benefited [...]
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