Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana’s trip to Shanghai in May stimulated a new wave of Chinese investment in Madagascar. This is expected to grow even more when Air Madagascar starts direct flights to China, possibly in May 2008.
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A group of Mozambican reserve officers have just created a company whose objective is the technical testing and inspection of [...]
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The long awaited nuclear energy bill may come before Parliament in the next few weeks.
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The Prime Minister is considering giving an amnesty to imprisoned opposition leaders who have asked for a pardon in writing.
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The Observatoire National de l’Intégrité (ONI), which is funded by the GTZ, does not want to be confused with the Bianco.
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Leading in the opinion polls for the next presidential election, Kibaki has now put his influence networks into service.
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The Somalian police database is now connected to the police forces in the 186 countries that are members of Interpol.
The foreign affairs minister of the Union of the Comoros visited Paris last week to hold discussions with representatives of the French government.
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Four candidates are in the running to become the new executive secretary of the World Bank funded Projet d’Infrastructure de [...]
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Henri Jacky Radavidra’s business interests have been doing particularly well since his son married President Marc Ravalomanana’s only daughter in January 2005.
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A company listed on the London Stock Exchange has been buying up stakes in firms in Southern Africa.
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The Nation Media Group is working on a project for a new daily. It could be launched in September to put the spanner in the spokes of the brand new Nairobi Star.
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After leaving BCI-Fomento by selling his shares to Grupo Insitec (ION 1217), the former minister of finance has embarked on a new trading adventure.
A number of Indian companies have recently created subsidiaries in Maputo ahead of launching mining prospecting operations. They are not alone.
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The Comazar consortium has been late in submitting its plan to relaunch the Djibouti-Ethiopia railway, so the two countries have decided to replace it with a Kuwaiti firm.
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Hassan Haji is the chairman of a new political party he has just founded. He had been secretary general of [...]
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Jean Pierre Rakotonirina, the former secretary general of the Malagasy ministry for foreign affairs, is to replace Jean Michel Rasolonjatovo [...]
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Naivo Rahamefy, the former mayor of Mahajanga, has just been appointed counsellor to the Madagascan embassy in Brussels. His brother [...]
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The new defence attaché of the United States embassy in Antananarivo, Frigate Captain Chris Bridges, spoke at a public meeting [...]
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The Vice President of the Union of the Comoros, Iddi Nadhoim, went to Tanzania on 16 July. The official reason [...]
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Patrick Fleuret, the new chief of mission of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Khartoum has an [...]
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The non-official advisor to the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Alain [...]
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Senator Robert del Picchia of the UMP (President Nicolas Sarkozy’s [...]
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The long vacant post of first counsellor in the Malagasy [...]
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A radar surveillance station under construction since last year came [...]
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The Sudanese police have swept through the Ethiopian opposition circles [...]
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The First Secretary of the French embassy in Tanzania, Terence [...]
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The Somalian Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi came back from [...]
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Passing through Antananarivo recently on his way home from a [...]
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A financial institution registered in the Anjouan offshore banking zone [...]
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This Canadian mining company with a permit to explore for [...]
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The Kenyan subsidiary of this international company specialising in security [...]
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The South African family company Universal Print Group is at [...]
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The regional director, Philippe Murcia, of the marine shipping company [...]
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The Australian manager of the firm Mada-Aust, specialised in prospecting [...]
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This company based in Mauritius whose CEO is Saleem Beebeejaun, [...]
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This Thai car retail company, a subsidiary of the Soni [...]
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A new insurance company has just begun operating in Ethiopia. [...]
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This Yemenite company is considering opening a storage unit for [...]
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