The Businessman-President Marc Ravalomanana has competitors but few true friends among the Malagasy business community. While it is true that Charles Andriantsitohaina, head of the Virio group and Gaston Ramenason, former CEO of BMOI, had supported his rise to the [.
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Always ready to brandish the banner of national sovereignty, the [...]
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Rama Yade, the French Secretary of State in charge of [...]
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Speaking at a conference on South Africa organised at the [...]
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The independent weekly O Pais should become a daily before [...]
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On a mission to Paris this week, Serge Castel, the [...]
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An ideologist in the terrorist group Al Qaida has rejected the peace agreement signed in Djibouti at the beginning of [...]
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Oromo opponents and TPLF dissidents are to form a new political group in Addis Ababa.
The by-election on 19 July brought on by the resignation of a Seychelles National Party MP is a risky game for the opposition. Double or quits!
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Battle is raging between Kalenjin pretenders for the posts of two ministers who died in an accident.
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The race to succeed President Mwai Kibaki has already started on his own side, where the Minister for Justice Martha Karua wants to oust George Saitoiti from the Narc-Kenya executive committee.
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The Djibouti National Assembly has recently constituted a Djibouti-China friendship group under the leadership of a former member of the national police force.
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Until recently, the blame for all manner of ills, including the unpopularity of Navin Ramgoolam’s government, was widely laid at [...]
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Just a few months after the collapse of the Nyaga Stock Broker, a large company heavily indebted to its clients, [...]
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These two companies are the only ones left in the running for the Ashegoda wind farm project.
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The French public works construction company is contesting the procedure by which the French embassy awarded a contract to a Djibouti company.
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The number of Indian mining companies is continually growing. We focus on the two latest to join the fray.
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While in Tanzania in mid-May, the French Secretary of State for International Development and Francophony, Alain Joyandet, was particularly struck [...]
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The tax services are taking an interest in a transaction between Sirama and the private company owned by its former director general.
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The national secretary of the Projet Intégré de Croissance (PIC) Eric Rakoto Andriantsilavo strongly criticised the Chinese company Sinohydro during [...]
The new director general of the Central Intelligence Service (CIS) is no newcomer to the intelligence arena. Jean Jacques Rasoloniaina, [...]
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The former trade counsellor at the Mauritius embassy in Washington has gone home to Port Louis where he has a [...]
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The former Assistant Secretary for Health in the American government (from December 2005 until September 2007) has just been appointed [...]
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The new United States Ambassador to Djibouti is a specialist in the horn of Africa and of security matters. Until [...]
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A businessman of Asian origin born in Madagascar and the brother-in-law of the President of the Union of the Comoros, [...]
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The new French Ambassador to the Comoros Islands, replacing Christian Job who has now gone into retirement, has come up [...]
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The wife of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is [...]
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A rumour is doing the rounds in the Madagascan capital [...]
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Bad publicity for the Ethiopian government: one of the members [...]
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Two of the presidential candidates eliminated in the first round [...]
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The annual report of the Groupement des Entreprises de Madagascar [...]
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As from July, the French Ambassador to the European Union [...]
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Faced with a shortage of rice and petroleum products for [...]
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The Ethiopian government would appear to want to facilitate the [...]
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The External Security Organization (ESO) whose budget in 2008-9 reached [...]
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The Belgian Philippe Guldemont is to become the new director [...]
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The Djibouti Council of Ministers passed a decree on 17 [...]
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the company CVC India Infrastructure (CVC), whose activity is centred [...]
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The investment fund Aureos Africa Fund, launched in 2001 by [...]
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After thoroughly discussing his project with the Malagasy Ambassador to [...]
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The French company BIC specialising in manufacturing ball point pens [...]
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This property company owned by the businessman Houssein Mahamoud Robleh [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the [...]
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Already present in Tanzania and Uganda, the British firm Norbrook [...]
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The general assembly of the Banque Commerciale et Industrielle de [...]
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