British Prime Minister David Cameron's reason for holding an international conference on Somalia in London on 7 May, along with an associated business forum the following day, was not only so he could claim success in diplomacy.
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After holding centre stage on the local diplomatic scene as soon as he had presented his credentials to Transition President [...]
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The crowning jewel in the African policy of François Hollande's first year as French president will be when he goes [...]
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Barring a last minute change in her schedule, Béatrice Atallah, the chair of the Commission Electorale Nationale Independante pour la [...]
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The BBC’s interview with President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) in the Somali language on 8 May gave a glimmer of [...]
The two eldest children of Mutula Kilonzo, who died on [...]
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The two members of the Mamadhusen family in partnership with [...]
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The former Indian ambassador, Vidya Bhushan Soni, stopped in the [...]
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President Andry Rajoelina known as TGV tried earlier this week [...]
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Certain Kenyan military leaders are unhappy with the appointment of Raychelle Omamo as defence minister. According to a well-placed military [...]
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Rivalry between Vice President Fouad Mohadji and President Ikililou Dhoinine’s team would seem to have reached breaking point.
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Paris would seem to have approved the strange way the Court of the First Instance operates in Mamoudzou. It is Judge Hakim Karki who will have to pay the price.
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President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has asked Japan to vote for Rachad Farah to be the next head of Unseco. However, he could not stop France from backing Irina Bokova.
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The arrest of several Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) officials and their businessmen allies is indicative of political struggles about corruption.
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The army and the intelligence services account for the lion's share of the 3.5 billion birrs of unjustified expenditure spotted by the Auditor General, Gemechu Dubisso.
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General Dadid Sejusa (Tinyefuza), Yoweri Museveni’s comrade in arms and like him an ethnic Hima, has been in a rebellious mood the last few weeks.
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The former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose political career in France came to a sudden [...]
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The public relations firm Totem, founded in 2000 by Alexandra Schaub is going through a terrible internal crisis and will have to reorient its activities to survive.
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A small American company is going into renewable energy by means of a joint venture with the Djibouti government and a local private investor.
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A crisis meeting is to be held next week to discuss the future of Kenya Petroleum Refineries (KPR), with its possible closure on the agenda.
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Negotiations were very tough between Fuelstock Madagascar and the Malagasy branch of Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) which wanted guarantees its loans would be repaid.
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Pressure from management influenced by advertising considerations has pushed journalists to flee the government newspaper Seychelles Nation.
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Progress on setting up a semi-industrial fishing complex on the island of Ngazidja is very slow. It should have been handed over in April, but this deadline has been missed.
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The DP World subsidiary that since 2012 has run maritime services for Maputo Port Development Co. will finance its new equipment through a loan from the IFC.
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Kenya’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, Macharia Kamau, could well have to pay the price for [...]
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The Ivorian Nyckoss Tommy Tayoro created a new company in Djibouti at the end of last month, called Star Management [...]
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A businessman who hails from Fianarantsoa and specialising in the construction industry via the company Touch Tone Madagascar (which also [...]
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The Rwanda Development Board (RDB), created in 2008 by the merger of seven government agencies in charge of promoting investment [...]
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The unsuccessful candidate for vice president as Raila Odinga’s running mate, Kalonzo Musyoka has finally abandoned the idea of finding [...]
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The Ethiopian-born Briton Dawit Wolde-Michael Gebre-ab is currently in the [...]
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The Italian-born Mozambican, Emiliano Finocchi, deputy director general of prefabricated [...]
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Several years after South Korean company Daewoo Logistics had difficulties [...]
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It did not take long for the Mozambican Belmiro Raul [...]
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A delegation from Standard Bank should soon be going to [...]
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After being put into liquidation last year, the construction firm [...]
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The private medical group AAR Healthcare founded in 1984 now [...]
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The private investment fund Actis Africa Real Estate Fund 2 [...]
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A group operating in the United Arab Emirates owned by [...]
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The French oil company Total doesn’t want to have the [...]
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After a lengthy wait of seven months, the private company [...]
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