With just a few months to go until the general election at the end of 2007, the main challengers to the outgoing President Mwai Kibaki are still looking for political parties to back them in the forthcoming presidential poll.
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On 29 May, President George Bush decided to tighten sanctions against Sudan. Two Sudanese dignitaries and one opposition leader have [...]
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A group of top-ranking Ethiopian military officers have been meeting in a closed session at the ministry of defence in [...]
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Idi Nadhoim, the Vice President of the Union of the Comoros, flew to Nairobi on 23 May together with the [...]
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Bloggers in Kenya were busy last week-end, after the web site of the Kenyan economic newspaper Business Dailywas suspended for [...]
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The Reunion Island Communist Party (known by its French initials of PCR) wants to take advantage of the high poll [...]
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For the first time Freemasons from all lodges met on 29 April for a “Masonic day” in the country.
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The family of the minister for foreign affairs has been faring particularly badly since the beginning of this year.
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A group of Ethiopian intellectuals living in the United States wants to found a new political grouping, in the hope of ultimately providing an alternative to the current regime in Addis Ababa.
This influential hospitaller order draws its members from among those close to Navin Ramgoolam.
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We investigate the vast network of companies and commercial farms owned by the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and run by his family.
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The outgoing President of Anjouan has accepted that an interim President be named in his stead, provided that he is the person to select him.
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In the space of just a few months, a Kenyan insurance company has become the object of numerous customer complaints [...]
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Several Indian companies are competing to raise their presence on the African market for generic pharmaceutical products.
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A group of minority shareholders has launched a vendetta against the company which publishes the daily newspaper L'Express. However, the overwhelming majority of shareholders did not go along with their motion.
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A company with ties to the minister of information is in the running to sell satellite television broadcasting equipment to the parastatal TV organisation KBC.
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An American company has been given the task of studying the Mozambican airports in the north of the country ahead of their refurbishment.
Halliburton has been trumped by a competitor for the contract to take charge of the logistics of the American base camp at Lemonier in Djibouti.
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An American company has won a contract to carry out seismic studies in the territorial waters of the Comoros Islands.
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Assafrica & Mediterraneo, the body in charge of Africa and the Middle East within the Italian employers’ organisation Confindustria, has [...]
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Ellinor Melbye, who is in charge of activity in Somaliland for Norwegian State foundation Petrad, led a seminar in Hargeisa [...]
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The person who will replace Dominique Renaux as French Ambassador to Mauritius had been a member of the Michel Rocard's [...]
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The Fuel sugar refinery owned by the Lagesse family is planning to appoint Amédée Darga, the chairman of the parastatal [...]
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The Swiss Business Hub South Africa recently inaugurated in Pretoria is to be directed by Erwin Lüthi. Trade counsellor to [...]
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The South African mobile telecommunications operator MTN will have a new Vice President for Southern and Eastern Africa as of [...]
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Ms Henriette Ramarozaka contacted The Indian Ocean Newsletteron 30 April [...]
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The Saudi-Ethiopian magnate Mohamed Hussein Al Almoudi has unleashed his [...]
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Retired Colonel Saïd Abeid Abderamane went back to Anjouan on [...]
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Under the composition of the new French government, the ministry [...]
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The Minister-Counsellor to the Tanzanian embassy in Washington, Alan Mzengi, [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from [...]
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Two leaders of the Mouvement pour le renouveau démocratique et [...]
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The Canadian mining company has taken on a new consultant [...]
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A Dubai based manufacturer of engine oil and lubricant wants [...]
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The contract for a concession between Chemin de fer Djibouto-Ethiopien [...]
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The two joint managers of this company, a subsidiary of [...]
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The CEO of this French company specialised in analysis and [...]
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The agent in Pretoria for this company registered in Hergiswil, [...]
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The contract to provide security for the staff and offices [...]
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This tour operator which also specialises in the construction of [...]
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Jean-Pierre Camugli having left the company to go into retirement, [...]
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