The Ethiopian-born Saudi magnate Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi is not satisfied with simply being the top foreign investor in the Ethiopia, as the owner via Midroc Ethiopia consortium of 20 businesses, including some in partnership with local businessmen.
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The web site of the Eritrean ministry of information reported on the four-day visit of an eight member delegation of [...]
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A handful of international figures is expected to participate in the ceremony for the Pretoria memorandum to be signed by [...]
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The former president of Central Africa, Ange Félix Patassé, sent several dozen Central African military troops to train in the [...]
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A new chairman of Econet Wireless Holdings Ltd's (EWHL) board of directors is expected to be named during the company's [...]
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The new director general of the External Security Organization (ESO) is a little known 44 year-old lieutenant. On December 13, [...]
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The new resident coordinator of operation activities for the United Nations system and resident representative of the United Nations Development [...]
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The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), beneficiaries of a recent $875,000 donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation intended [...]
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New Lachaussée, a Liege-based company owned by the businessman Georges Forrest's group, is planning to set up a munitions factory [...]
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The South African company Net Group Solution has already asked to renew its contract to manage Tanesco for two more years.
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The Uganda Electricity Transmission Company barely has the means to make its clients pay the $6 million that they owe.
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Recent secret negotiations took place between a Chinese government delegation and its Ethiopian counterparts on China's interest in Ethiopia's mining [...]
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Ten large private companies have succeeded in renegotiating their arrears to the state company Jirama (electricity and water in Madagascar). [...]
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The $165 million Kasese Cobalt Company Ltd (KCCL), which exploits cobalt from the stockpile of copper exploitation in the Kilembe [...]
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Erick Lazarus's Reunion Island company, Air Bourbon, asked the French Conseil supérieur de l'aviation marchande (CSAM) this week for the [...]
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President Mwai Kibaki made a wave of nominations to the head of 30 state organizations and companies on December 18. [...]
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The minister of roads and public works, Raila Odinga, is in a tug-of-war with several of his colleagues in the Kenyan government.
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The justice department is blaming the finance minister in the government of the autonomous island of Ngazidja.
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The setting up of regions planned by the constitution is raising debate and competition between the secretary of state charged with decentralization and the interior minister.
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Five months after the appointment of its president, the Conseil superieur de lutte contre la corruption has still not been formed.
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The Ugandan authorities want Kenya to modernize its oil refinery in order to obtain less polluted imported products.
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Several international companies were successively interested in exploiting gas in Calub, but none of them committed.
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The prospect of peace and of a lifting of American sanctions in the next year is making the organizers of hunting safaris champ at the bit.
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The South African Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has named [...]
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The Alliance Franco-Djiboutienne (AFD), which was founded in May 1997 [...]
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During its executive committee's annual meeting in Brussels last week, [...]
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The new Pakistani ambassador to Djibouti president his credentials to [...]
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The 5,400 small investors in the Port Louis Fund (PLF) [...]
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President Mwai Kibaki has renewed the leadership of the Kenya [...]
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Five ambassadors presented their credentials to President Yoweri Museveni on [...]
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The Southern Africa director of Agence France Presse (AFP), Gérard [...]
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According to information gathered by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, the [...]
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After the Ethiopian government studied its offer for several months, [...]
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The French company Sogea (now called Vinci) is set to [...]
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The South African government has charged the state telecommunications company [...]
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