The governing EPRDF party’s unopposed domination of the country’s institutions does not insure Prime Minister Meles Zenawi against the dangerous social tensions that are building up in Ethiopia. Particularly as the price of staples went through the roof in January, [.
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The Djibouti opposition meeting scheduled for 4 March has just [...]
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The SADC mediator in the Malagasy conflict and former President [...]
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Climate change and the forthcoming G20 summit are among the [...]
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Diplomats from the French foreign ministry in Paris were rather [...]
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The representative of the SADC’s mediator in the Malagasy crisis, the Mozambican former Minister for Foreign Affairs Leonardo Santos Simao [...]
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The race is on to take over from Naina Andriantsitohaina as chairman of the Groupement des Entreprises de Madagascar (G.E.M).
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The opposition leader is a past master in the art of destabilising the authorities whenever he has the chance. Medpoint is a good case study.
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The airline Air Madagascar, which recently boasted a good year in 2010 with air traffic strongly up, could have its [...]
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The staff of Comores Telecom have intervened to denounce the contract with the firm Vocalpad to monitor incoming and outgoing international calls.
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Circus Advertising, Maurice Publicite Ogilvy and P&P Link Saatchi & Saatchi have formed a company to pool buying advertising space in the media.
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In spite of lengthy negotiations, the French security company has not been able to conclude a Public Private Partnership deal with the Malagasy authorities.
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The former Labour Party (LP, governing) treasurer and parliamentary chief whip, Bika Jhuboo, will soon take the helm of the [...]
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The Ambassador of Mozambique to Angola, Antonio Paulo Elias Junior Matonse, has joined the club of Mozambican diplomats with a [...]
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With only a few months to go to the presidential election in May 2011, the Seychelles National Party (SNP, opposition) [...]
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The deputy chairman of the Conseil Supérieur de la Transition (CST), Roland Ratsiraka is already campaigning for a potential presidential [...]
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The Indian-born magnate with Seychellois nationality Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, known as [...]
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The ministry of the environment of Mauritius is working on [...]
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The discussion on the date of the hand-over of power [...]
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During her recent visit to Paris, the South African Minister [...]
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The Portuguese company Cenatolim Products, created in 2005 and a [...]
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The airline Corsairfly, a subsidiary of the TUI group, wants [...]
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After spending three years working for the Canadian company SNC-Lavalin [...]
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The Chinese have just begun a new round of investment [...]
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The contract to design the hospitals that President Andry Rajoelina [...]
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The chairman of the election commission and two new candidates for the presidential election claim to be independents. We take a closer look.
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Some of the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency managers are in the anti-corruption agency's line of sights.
In publicly accepting South Sudan is on the road to independence, President Omar al Bashir has silenced Salva Kiir’s potential rivals in Juba.
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The minister for information is planning to replace two executives at the Communication Commission of Kenya. But this would anger both Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga.
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The Prime Minister's wife has become the pet hate of opponents in the Diaspora, because of both her taste for shopping and the role she plays in parliament.
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After the Geothermal Development Co, it’s now the turn of the National Oil Corp of Kenya to hit on problems to fund its development.
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Relations between the Madhvani family group and the Ugandan government have not always been simple. After some ups, they are now in a down.
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A consequence of the large number of political purges and sackings for corruption is that former EPRDF dignitaries have been pushed into the private sector.
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The Kenyan magnate Naushad Merali, who is at the head of the Sameer group, could have a white elephant on [...]
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Sumararily dismissed from his post in November 2010, George Gichane [...]
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The Somaliland-born British entrepreneur Mohammed Yusef, this week led a [...]
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A cable from the American embassy in Djibouti dated 27 [...]
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The President of the United States Barack Obama this week [...]
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The next meeting of Djibouti's international donors comes at a [...]
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The five year contract to produce the fortnightly magazine of [...]
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It was in vain that Irwin Olian, the CEO of [...]
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The latest security company to see the light of day [...]
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