In several years, thanks to the help of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Uganda has hoisted itself up to the rank of a global vanilla producer, with $9.3 million in revenues last year, versus only $500,000 a [.
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The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), the Kenyan ministry of trade and the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry [...]
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Peace negotiations on Sudan, which were officially interrupted last month because of Ramadan, are sent to continue in Navaisha (Kenya) [...]
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The Ethiopia Business Group (EBG), which groups companies that are members of the Eastern Africa Association (EAA) involved in a [...]
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The International Finance Company (IFC, World Bank branch) is going to help Coca Cola Sabco Ltd of South Africa penetrate [...]
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Two Canadian companies have taken options to buy firms with mining licenses in Eritrea. Coubran Resources Ltd, registered in Vancouver [...]
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The power supply contract tying the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) to its supplier, the Société Nationale d'Electricité (SNEL) of [...]
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The tender issued in the beginning of the year for the privatization of the Siramamy Malagasy (Sirama, state-owned) sugar companies' [...]
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The Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF), whose chief post since 1994, General Vitalis Zvinavashe, is retiring soon, has just signed a [...]
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Under pressure from donors who have just restored ties with Nairobi, the Kenya Revenue Authority is expected to make important reforms.
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Two companies are competing to help the Ugandan government evaluate the Kilembe mine's assets in order to put them up for sale.
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The World Bank is waiting for the government to choose a concessionaire for the Sena railroad before setting the amount of its financial engagement.
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An international conference on informal Somalian fund-transferring systems will be held in London next week.
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A consortium led by the Mauritian group Currimjee Jeevanjee has just taken control of the state-owned Barbarons hotel in Mahé.
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The new British ambassador to Ethiopia, who will take up his post in March 2004, knows the African continent well, [...]
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The new director of intelligence and counterespionage, the police commissioner Marcel Velotsara, was born on February 19, 1957 in Andemaka [...]
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An adviser to President Mwai Kibaki has gradually hoisted herself up to the rank of a rival to Matere Keriri [...]
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In addition to differences with the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF, see ION 1065), Hailu Shawel's All Ethiopian Unity Party [...]
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The municipal elections didn't turn the political balance upside down: Renamo won only four mayoralties and earned scores lower scores than predicted in its fiefdoms in the north and the center.
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The Afar guerilla group's former representative in Europe joined the Addis Ababa regime, which reportedly promised him a government job.
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Celebrated in disunion, the end of Ramadan was marked by serious trouble in Moroni.
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Several high-level officials were fired in recent months without very convincing explanations from the government.
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The president of the Mouvement pour le Renouveau démocratique et [...]
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During a debate on November 26 on the Seychelles, particularly [...]
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The Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), a consortium directed by [...]
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The Australian company Ticor Ltd has advanced in its project [...]
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The Kurjibhai Ramji Group of Companies (KRG), which has been [...]
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The Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MCL) began a [...]
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The new High Commissioner of Uganda to Great Britain recently [...]
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A former governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) [...]
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After 25 years of the Movement militant mauritien's (MMM) supremacy, [...]
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The president of the Mauritius Employers Federation, Dan Bundhoo, will [...]
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The president of the Conseil supérieur de lutte contre la [...]
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The South African department of Home Affairs has deemed that [...]
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