The government in Maputo is crammed full of ministers and senior civil servants who pad out their monthly pay check with dividends from their portfolios of shares in local private companies. This situation does not necessarily result in insider trading [.
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The Canadian company Sherritt International, which is the lead shareholder (owning 40% of the equity) and operator of the project [...]
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Djibouti’s ambassador to France, Rachad Farah, is gathering up diplomatic support for his campaign to become the next Director General [...]
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The former Speaker of the Somalian Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden (Rahanweyn/Ashraaf) is still an influential political figure, even though [...]
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Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has reportedly pencilled 25 January in his diary for a cabinet reshuffle. This will be the second since he won the election in May 2010.
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Since the death last year of the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Paulos Gebre Yohannes, officials have been trying to have another Tigrayan appointed as his replacement.
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The pollsters in the opinion research company Infotrak, which places Raila Odinga the winner in the presidential election on 4 March, are worried they are under NSIS surveillance.
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Two men will compete head on to try to gain the exclusive support of the Transition President Andry Rajoelina for the forthcoming presidential election.
If he decides to run in the forthcoming presidential election, Edgard Razafindravahy will be able to count on the support of his foreign business partners.
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Caught between the internal squabbles in the EPRDF governing coalition and its TPLF hard core, Prime Minister Haile Mariam Desalegn turned on Mohammed Al Amoudi.
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The consulting and services company Magoe Investimentos founded in July 2012 by former Prime Minister Luisa Dias Diogo is entering [...]
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Nouvobanq, a commercial bank owned mainly by the Seychelles State, is under strong pressure to recover major loans which have not been serviced for several years.
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The new company Fruit Som will have to overcome quite a few obstacles to relaunch its banana exports and avoid a repeat of the 1995 “banana war”.
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Entrepreneurs from Portugal are continuing to develop projects in the construction and tourist sectors in Mozambique.
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The Swedish national company SweRoad wants compensation from the Ethiopian Railway Corporation for the cancellation of its consulting contract under Chinese pressure.
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Already at the head of a group comprising sixteen companies operating in three countries (Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia), the businessman Ahmed Osman Guelleh now has a new project.
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A small mergers and acquisitions consultancy in Lyons, founded in the 1990s, started to turn its gaze towards South Sudan a few months ago.
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The former chairman of Transparency Mauritius, Jacques de Navacelle, is acting as a consultant for the ruling Labour Party's activist Nandanee Soornack.
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A new Japanese ambassador to Madagascar, Ryuhei Hosoya, was nominated on 15 January and will take up his post in [...]
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Officials at the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN – French national defence studies institute) were surprised last [...]
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The former minister to the presidency, Isabel Manuel Nkavadeka, who was in charge of relations with parliament on behalf of [...]
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Paul Wanyagah who has been the CEO of Mediamax for two years, may soon leave the group which is owned [...]
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The son of the current First Lady Kadra Mahamoud Haid from her first marriage with former Prime Minister Abdallah Mohamed [...]
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Philippe Perotti is dreaming of going back to Madagascar, where [...]
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Florence Paque, who in 2005 founded Nation Branding Communication (NBCom) [...]
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The head of the provisional administration of the town of [...]
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There is not much time left for the Djibouti opposition [...]
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Two potential candidates could enter the running to take over [...]
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Simultaneously the executive director of the NGO The Sudd Institute [...]
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During the evening of 15 January, Radio et télévision de [...]
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The small consulting company based in Lyons (France) and headed [...]
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The British national Jason Daniel McCue has just formed the [...]
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The Chinese nationals Mingwei He and Yongtian He, who are [...]
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Whether or not Titus Naikuni will remain in his post [...]
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The company Matola Cargo Terminal SA (MCT), a 90% subsidiary [...]
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The American company CH2M Hill based in Virginia created a [...]
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The American Ken Gradall, a keen canoeist, wants to set [...]
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The company Publicis Worldwide is stepping up its activity in [...]
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The radio frequencies that are attributed by the Communications Commission [...]
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The Australian junior company Nyota Minerals (ION 1335) has taken [...]
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