Whether they were sacked from their official post or preferred to move away from the present government, many Ethiopian top civil servants are trying their chance in the private sector. Certain disgraced former officials have become consultants, while the Midroc [.
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The South African President Thabo Mbeki will be in Paris on 12 April for a meeting with his French opposite [...]
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Paris has just appointed two diplomats reaching the end of their career as the next Ambassadors to Djibouti and Eritrea.Dominique [...]
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The Grand Chancellor of the Grande Loge de France (GLDF), Jean Claude Hertz, is to go to Antananarivo for the [...]
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The Hawiye traditional chiefs have decided to call a cease-fire in Mogadishu, following the confrontations during the last few days [...]
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The two leading players in an oil contract awarded to the Malagasy concern Nestair in Comoros in late 2006 (ION [...]
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The Indian Ambassador to Khartoum, Deepak Vohra, who has set himself the task of trumping the entry of Chinese companies [...]
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Unlike the Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs Anand Sharma, who in the past has supported anti-apartheid activists, the majority of [...]
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According to information obtained in Addis Ababa by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has written [...]
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The Ethiopian military contingent went into action on 28 March to win back control of quarters in Mogadishu taken over by Somalian insurgents a few days earlier.
The Ethiopian Prime Minister is fully behind one of the two factions in the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA).
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The budgetary restrictions decided by the minister for finance will oblige his colleague in tourism to seriously scale down his activities.
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Five warlords commanding some 3,000 men and benefiting from a network smuggling arms from Somalia have taken control of the North East of the country.
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The opposition alliance has decided to participate in the early general election called by President James Michel. It had initially threatened to boycott it.
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Ibrahim Ali Mzimba has published his official declaration of property in order to cut short the attacks by one of his rivals in the election for President of Ngazidja.
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Several heads of large Indian companies are chairmen of the Joint Business Councils (JBC) centred on Africa and part of [...]
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The most influential members of the Indian Diaspora in Africa form as many representatives on the spot for their country [...]
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Indian banks are having an increasingly noticeable presence in Africa, frequently riding on the back of existing operations by members [...]
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The Tata Group is expanding its multi-faceted presence in Africa out of a bridgehead in South Africa. This is where [...]
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Ruchita Beri, a specialist on energy matters in Sub-Saharan Africa [...]
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Ajay Dubey, age 47, is the chairman of the Center [...]
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Shri Shashank, a former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, [...]
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Pavan K. Varma, a diplomat and a writer, heads the [...]
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Jagdish Prasad Sharma, at 73 is still at the head [...]
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Vanaraj S. Sheth is part of the Center for African [...]
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An American company acting as a regular sub-contractor for the Pentagon and the United States intelligence agencies has just won [...]
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Several contracts have recently been won by companies directly linked to the Chama cha Mapinduzi or by leaders of this government party acting in a private capacity.
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The former minister for international cooperation has just formed a company whose activity is centred on transforming and exporting mineral resources.
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A banking group from West Africa has filed a request for a licence in several East African countries. It has also had a study of the banking market in Kenya carried out.
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The Swiss company is considering going to international trade arbitration to recover two million euros the Moroni government owes it.
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The Tanzanian minister for energy and mines is expected to not renew a contract to audit gold production when it comes to an end after four years.
The employers’ organisations have negotiated with Jirama to obtain a reduction in the electricity bills of private companies.
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Deepak Vohra, the Indian ambassador to Sudan, has had an [...]
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Bharati Sivaswamy Sihag was appointed Joint Secretary for Africa at [...]
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Lieutenant General Jasbir Lidder has been at the head of [...]
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The Honorary Consul of India in Djibouti since 1987, Nalin [...]
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The director of the Africa committee of the Federation of [...]
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A barrister at the Supreme Court and former chairman of [...]
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One of the general managers of the Indian State company [...]
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As part of his responsibility as the group’s Africa director, [...]
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Appointed Vice President of the group’s shared services branch in [...]
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The new secretary general of the ministry for foreign affairs is an influential Merinaintellectual, very close to the family of [...]
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The new secretary general of the national ministry of defence, appointed just last week, is no newcomer. Brigadier General Marchel [...]
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If the US Senate approves his appointement by President George W. Bush, the next United States Ambassador to Madagascar and [...]
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The new Australian Ambassador to Kenya and to Nairobi based UN organisations is a specialist in South-East Asia for who [...]
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The leader of the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) took advantage of his presence in Madagascar, where he had been invited [...]
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As had been forecast (ION 1208), Terry Davidson will be replaced by his current number two when his four year [...]
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Founded in 2002 by Linda Brady-Hawke, the Indo-African Society aims [...]
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The Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (Gopio International) [...]
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The World Malayalee Council (WMC) is the most strongly structured [...]
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The Canadian company has trumped the card of its German [...]
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A large South African manufacturer of food products (tea, coffee, [...]
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This French international development consulting company is organising a prospecting [...]
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A company based in the south of France has won [...]
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Following the ban imposed by several American states (Nebraska, Idaho [...]
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The firm Telkom South Africa, headed by Papi Molotsane, has [...]
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Andrew Windham has been made the new managing director for [...]
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Four companies have been pre-selected to give technical assistance to [...]
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The Asian company which took over a textiles factory at [...]
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Already a shareholder in several companies (ION 1210), Mahomed Salim [...]
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Mauritius is to send a delegation to Paris to lead [...]
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The French MP and Mayor of the capital of Reunion [...]
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After recruiting Vishnu Lutchmeenaraidoo, as foreseen by The Indian Ocean [...]
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The permanent secretary to the Kenyan finance ministry Joseph Kinyua, [...]
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The FAFO Institute for Applied International Studies, which had initiated [...]
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A dispute has broken out between the Minister for Natural [...]
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For the summit of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats [...]
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