With Turkey poised to open a training camp for the Somali National Army (SNA) in Mogadishu the United Arab Emirates is equally building several military sites in Somalia. The two countries are locked in a struggle for influence against a [.
Subscribers only
Working for Djibouti’s prime minister, retired French general Claude Gandouli has been forbidden by the armed forces to travel in the north.
Subscribers only
About to reconvene, Malagasy’s Parliament is thinking of acting against the government.
Subscribers only
The race to succeed Benno Ndulu as governor of the Bank of Tanzania when he retires in mid-2018 has already [...]
Subscribers only
According to military sources, 200 Sudanese soldiers have arrived at a military training camp at Kaweweta in Uganda. An unprecedented [...]
Subscribers only
Two powerful Kenyan businessman are in the process of emerging as kingmakers in the forthcoming national election in August. Isaac [...]
Subscribers only
Interior minister Hassan Omar Mohamed Bourhan has been out of sight since April 14. He fears being ticked off by [...]
Subscribers only
Despite political instability and drastic food shortages, prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn has made it clear Addis Ababa retains a tight [...]
Subscribers only
Although he previously threw his unconditional support behind South Sudanese president Salva Kiir (ION 1441), Uganda's leader, Yoweri Museveni, has [...]
To hold back the tide of emigrants seeking to enter [...]
Subscribers only
For want of proposals from investors capable of providing guarantees [...]
Subscribers only
Apart from a meeting on April 22 between U.S. defence [...]
Subscribers only
The Eritrean government under president Isaias Afwerki recently named a [...]
Subscribers only
The Imam Reza Shiite cultural complex at Ivato was turned [...]
Subscribers only
President Uhuru Kenyatta and vice president William Ruto can claim [...]
Subscribers only
The government in Khartoum has decided to re-open its military [...]
Subscribers only
With the electoral process now in dangerous waters, a company cited in the Petrobras affair has entered the fray.
Subscribers only
A project to build a pipeline between Awash in Ethiopia and the Damerjog port in Djibouti is on the point of being dropped.
Subscribers only
The Lalgy family whose firm Grupo Lalgy figures among Mozambique’s leading goods transporters is seeking to diversify its business. The [...]
Subscribers only
Will her companies collapse before Claude Razaimamonjy a businesswoman and adviser to president Hery Rajaonarimampianina, finds herself facing a court? [...]
Subscribers only
According to our sources, Tanzania’s State Mining Corp (Stamico) is due to start mining coal at Kobulo Hill in the [...]
Subscribers only
The American ambassador to Dar es Salaam, Virginia Blaser, and Tanzania’s energy ministry, Sospeter Muhongo, are said to have attempted to get the government to bring the American firm back into competition for a contract.
Subscribers only
It’s not because his uncle, former president Armando Guebuza (2005-2015), [...]
Subscribers only
The camps of president Uhuru Kenyatta and vice president William [...]
Subscribers only
Having been named by president Hery Rajaonarimampianina as energy and [...]
Subscribers only
The Indian Ocean Newsletter has received a letter dated April [...]
Subscribers only
Over two years after winning a contract put out to [...]
Subscribers only
The Autorite Routiere de Madagascar (ARM) headed by Jean Pascal [...]
Subscribers only
The Comoros government is due to sign an agreement with [...]
Subscribers only
Efforts to overhaul the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) are about [...]
Subscribers only
Barclays Bank in Mauritius will vanish from the business scene [...]
Subscribers only
The British subsidiary of France’s Colas company (which, in its [...]
Subscribers only
The Tanzanian firm Kioo, the only manufacturer of glass bottles [...]
Subscribers only