While the activities of the wives of African Heads of State, are frequently restricted to charity work, they do sometimes play a non-negligible role at the head of their country. Some of them even set themselves up as number two, [.
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The France-Djibouti and Horn of Africa friendship group held its general meeting in Paris last month, following the three-yearly renewal [...]
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The South African ambassador to Israel, Fumanekile Gqiba, has taken on the services of Denis Worrall's firm Omega Investment Research [...]
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The contract signed last year between the United Nations and the Russian airline UTair, based in Tyumen, for the supply [...]
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The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is to provide training services to employees of the Independent Commission Against Corruption [...]
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The British firm D1 Oils Plc, floated on the Alternative Instrument Market in London in October 2004, and formerly known [...]
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A significant part of the shareholding of Middle East Bank Kenya Ltd (MEBK), created in 1981, will soon change hands. [...]
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The firm Telecom Malagasy (Telma) acquired by the group Distacom, is putting its men in place at the head of [...]
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The Malaysian firm Peremba Construction, subsidiary of PECD, has just obtained funding of $63 million from a banking consortium to [...]
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In cold store for some years, the process of privatising the state firm Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique could be on the cards again in the next few months.
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A Hong Kong company has signed a preliminary agreement to operate in the oil sector in partnership with the Malagasy government.
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It is now the air force that will be in charge of Ravalomanana's presidential plane.
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The Djibouti businessman Abdurahman Boreh set up a company at the end of December, with a capital of FDJ 10 [...]
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The results of the South African construction company, subsidiary of the French group Bouygues, underwent a considerable fall in 2004.
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The Union Parliament passed the 2005 budget unanimously. It also passed an act which specifies how receipts are to be split between the four governments in the islands.
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The new finance minister, Ezra Suruma, likes to describe himself as a social reformer, but he is particularly a member [...]
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Jean Robert Razafy, a former director general of Aviation Civile de Madagascar (ACM), a refugee in France since the 2002 [...]
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The first ambassador of the Netherlands to Madagascar, nevertheless resident in Dar es-Salaam (Tanzania), has just presented his credentials to [...]
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The SPPF is to relieve the deputy speaker of the national assembly of his post, to give it to a member who is more popular in his constituency.
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While still at a low level, petty crime and muggings of foreigners is starting to worry western chancelleries.
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The guest list for the President Marc Ravalomanana's daughter, Sarah Ravalomanana's wedding on 15 January, has made some interesting revelations [...]
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Since their arrival in the government in 2003, several ministers have acquired land and have set out into agriculture.
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President Isaias Afwerki is no more lenient with followers of ?non-official? churches than he is with his political opponents.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) should soon [...]
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Jeune Chambre Economique (JCE) - an association with 100,000 members [...]
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The partners in Société djiboutienne des jeux (SDJ) have decided [...]
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A British firm specialised in marketing intelligence, security consultancy and [...]
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The Mozambique ambassador to China presented his credentials to North [...]
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A judge of the Ugandan high court in Mbale was [...]
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The Mauritius Duty Free Paradise (MDFP), subsidiary of Airports of [...]
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The World Bank, which has been absent from Sudan since [...]
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The military attaché of the British embassy in Kampala played [...]
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