The "winning formula" devised by Prime Minister Paul Bérenger and his number two Pravind Jugnauth seemed to put the governing coalition MSM/MMM on track to win the general elections on 3 July (ION 1121). This is now no longer the [.
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Four American congressmen, two Republican and two Democrat, wrote to President Mwai Kibaki on 23 May. In this letter they [...]
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Investment by Portugal in Portuguese-speaking African countries collapsed last year, falling by 94% compared to 2003. The reason for this [...]
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The Mozambican Minister of Defence, Tobias Dai, brother in law of President Armando Guebuza, went to Beijing last week in [...]
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The Fondation Suisse de Déminage (FSD), under a mandate from the World Food Programme, is to send the Digger D-2 [...]
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Donald Yamamoto, the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, received the leaders of the Ethiopian opposition in Washington [...]
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Meles Zenawi is tempted to play it gently with the Oromos to counter the Amhara opponents, who now hold the majority in Addis Ababa.
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Rumours are persisting about the departure of Constance Newman. Several other changes are also expected at the US State Department.
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The fundamentalist Mungiki sect, Kikuyu for the majority, is preparing to go into the race for the general elections scheduled for 2007.
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In spite of the efforts of his lawyers and the support of his board, the governor of the Banque Centrale des Comores is in prison.
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Airbus (subsidiary of EADS) is to deliver one of its aircraft, an A319, to South African Airways (SAA) at the [...]
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Not having been able to complete a road building contract, Bouygues Construction and its South African subsidiary have had to forfeit their deposit bond.
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A first call has just been issued for international firms wanting to take part in future calls for tender for supply, construction and services in the energy sector.
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A speech by a Kenyan minister portraying Kilimanjaro as a Kenyan attraction has drawn the wrath of Tanzanian tour operators.
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A property company run by José Moutou has been subject to a massive tax adjustment following erroneous income tax and VAT declarations.
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The banking and finance supervisory commission has barred the Compagnie Malgache de Banque from making new loans.
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Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industries (TPI), which is owned for 40% by the Tanzanian State and the remainder by private interests, has [...]
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At the end of last month, the Japanese firm Systems International Group (SIG) obtained a licence to explore for oil [...]
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A call for tenders is to be issued in the coming weeks or months for the building of a new [...]
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The Administrator of the Office Malgache du Tabac (Ofmata), Eddy Randrianatsimbazafy, was promoted on 8 June to the rank of [...]
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) really can't do without the services of Alan Goulty on Sudan. This Arab linguist [...]
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The director of aerodynamics for the Airbus A380 and number two of design for the whole aircraft was born in [...]
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A top civil servant in the French Ministry of the Interior, Patrick Rajoelina, of Malagasy extraction, has been promoted to [...]
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The new director of cultural promotion, who replaces the singer Razafindrazaka Bodoarisoa aka "Bodo" (an artiste supporting President Marc Ravalomanana) [...]
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The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has just resumed operations [...]
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The Italian Deputy Minister of International Trade, Adolfo Urso, is [...]
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The Johannesburg based Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (Osisa), [...]
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The United States embassy in Mauritius (also accredited in Comoros) [...]
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The Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) has not only recently replaced [...]
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Following a short article published in The Indian Ocean Newsletter [...]
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François Caillé, president of the Reunion branch of the Mouvement [...]
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Kenya Airways is to begin flying to Mozambique from 4 [...]
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Nomfanelo Magwentshu, the former personal assistant of the CEO of [...]
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President Yoweri Museveni received Wolfgang Heinl, director of the pharmaceutics [...]
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The Japanese ambassador to Kenya, on post in Nairobi since [...]
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President Abdullahi Yusuf's Somalian government has just named its first [...]
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Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United [...]
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Pope Benoît XVI appointed a new papal nuncio to Tanzania [...]
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Lesotho has just appointed a new ambassador to Ethiopia. He [...]
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