The fragile political consensus established during the previous negotiations (Maputo I and II, then Addis Ababa) fell to pieces after Maputo III, when three of the four political camps shared out the ministerial portfolios in the absence of the movement [.
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A small Italian firm specialising in trading ore and transforming [...]
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President Armando Guebuza seems just a little too non-aligned for the taste of a growing number of American experts at [...]
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The landslide victory by President Sambi's partisans in the legislative election was so overwhelming that it might be considered questionable. Particularly in view of the high abstention rate of 60%.
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Following the appointment of Colonel Camille Vital as Prime Minister, another officer is tipped for minister of the interior. Could this be a step to a military-civilian government?
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Rajah Ramdaursingh has built up a network of friends and close contacts since he became chairman of the country’s number two bank, SBM, at the end of 2007.
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The mining company BHP Billiton wants its mining permit on heavy sands in Chibuto to be extended once again. But it still has no intention of working it.
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The Financial Intelligence Unit has had to unfreeze an American’s bank account because of a lack of proof.
The private security companies protecting the Spanish trawlers against Somalian pirates have come up against administrative problems.
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The new Malagasy Prime Minister, Colonel Camille Albert Vital, 57, born of a Greek mother naturalised French and an Antandroy [...]
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The Minister for Tourism Walter Muzembi is taking hits from all sides for accepting to work with Prime Minister Morgan [...]
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Eric Granon, a French geologist well-known in Antananarivo where he [...]
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After being put on standby for several months, the mining [...]
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The Mauritian company Minergy Holdings, whose agent in Antananarivo is [...]
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The Canadian mining company Energizer Resources Inc., formerly known by [...]
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Maputo gave short shrift to the African Mining & Exploration [...]
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The French law firm Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés has advised [...]
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The company Econet Wireless Global owned by the Zimbabwean magnate [...]
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Former President Daniel arap Moi is contacting his successor Mwai Kibaki repeatedly for help to stop his land in the Mau Forest being seized.
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USAID is to launch a programme to support political plurality ahead of the presidential election and the 2011 regional election. We wish them luck!
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Pier Gianni Prosperini, a personal friend of the Eritrean President, has just been imprisoned in Italy for corruption.
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President Yoweri Museveni will not like the LRA Bill that is expected to be passed by the US Senate the end of the year and will go to the House of Representatives in February 2010.
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The company Royal Media Services (RMS) owned by the magnate Samuel Kamau Macharia is still benefiting from a healthy status [...]
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At the beginning of 2010, the IFC is to approve no less than five programmes to finance companies and funds active in Africa, totalling $ 400 million.
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An increasing number of Indian companies are carrying off contracts in Djibouti.
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Several instigators of the new oil distribution company Dalol Oil are former Shell employees who left the firm when it was taken over by Oilibya in Ethiopia.
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The Parti National Démocratique (PND) convention which was held in Djibouti on 16 December approved the investiture of its leader [...]
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The choice of Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba as the next director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) did not make [...]
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The Deputy Minister for Trade, Omingo Magara, whose election as an MP in 2007 had been annulled following an appeal, [...]
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The French Ambassador to Tanzania, Jacques Champagne de Labriolle sent [...]
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President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh would seem to be still hesitating [...]
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From his vantage point of exile in Zimbabwe, the former [...]
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The unrest in Uganda sparked by a bill that if [...]
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Fidel Castro Odinga, the son of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, [...]
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The Minister for Security, Amama Mbabazi, is the unwitting star [...]
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Relations have become somewhat strained lately between certain tribal authorities [...]
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The decision by the radical Islamist organisation Al Shabaab to [...]
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An unauthorised demonstration on 8 December by students at Shakiso, [...]
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The Australian mining company Nyota Minerals, managed by Melissa Sturgess, [...]
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Concerned about the bill tabled by the MP John Mututho [...]
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The budget forecast for Electricite de Djibouti (EDD) for the [...]
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