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TUNISIA - 02/04/2010
A “Leila University” Soon to Open Doors?
Is the close-down of the Universite Libre de Tunis on Jan. 25 a prelude to the inauguration of a future Leila Ben Ali university? Since the first private higher education establishment in Tunisia, founded in 1973 by Mohamed Bouebdelli was “suspended” - until 2014 - by the higher education ministry, the wife of president Ben Ali has been pressing ahead with her project of private university at Carthage, according to our sources.
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ALGERIA - 02/04/2010
“Green” Money for Algeria?
Will the Global Environment Facility’s buckets of money contain some funding for Algeria? A co-financing system that sprang from the Rio convention, and to which 190 countries subscribe, the fund functions alongside other major donors (such as the World Bank and European Investment Bank) and could step up its operations in Algeria in coming years.
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Foreign Affairs Ministry, Paris - 02/04/2010
Paris between Algiers, Mali and AQIM
A whistle-stop visit to Bamako in Mali on Feb. 1 by French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner underscored the difficulty of Western countries in trying to oversee the anti-terrorism fight in the region without taking local struggles for influence into account.
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CHAD - 02/03/2010
An Oil Tug-of-War with Brussels
Although it became an oil producer seven years ago, Chad still hasn’t been able to sell its share of crude on international markets. Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the European Union, which financed a significant part of the oil pipeline between the Doba fields and Kribi through the intermediary of the European Investment Bank (EIB), is working to prevent Chad from managing the oil alone.
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NIGERIA - 02/03/2010
Maurel Has Foot in Delta’s Door
Breaking into Nigeria for the first time , France’s Maurel & Prom has bought stakes on three of Shell’s fields that the Anglo-Dutch company stopped working two years ago.
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GHANA - 02/03/2010
Inusah Abdulai Fuseini
In a cabinet re-shuffle in Ghana on Jan. 25, Inusah Abdulai Fuseini replaced deputy energy minister Kwabena Donkor.
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DJIBOUTI - 01/30/2010
Sarkozy gives Guelleh his benediction
French President Nicolas Sarkozy finally took up the two-year old invitation from his Djibouti counterpart President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) to visit his country. The visit was indeed lightning, at 11 pm on 19 January when the aircraft taking Sarkozy to Paris on his way back from Mayotte and Reunion Island stopped for fuel.
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UGANDA - 01/30/2010
Museveni vs Sudanese threat
Ugandan military High Command recently raised the possibility of redeploying to South Sudan a portion of Ugandan troops currently on service in the African Union Mission to Somalia (Amisom).
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KENYA - 01/30/2010
John Macharia
John Macharia, the son of the media magnate Samuel K. Macharia, is not a happy man at the moment.
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CONGO-K - 01/27/2010
MIBA’s Debt to Emaxon Under Scrutiny
At the initiative of three deputies from the presidential majority, Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, Willy Ntumba and Mukendi Tshiambula, the Congolese parliament’s finance commission is to examine in the next few days the controversial question of the government’s repayment of USD 25 million to Emaxon Finance Inc, a subsidiary of Israeli businessman Dan Gertler’s DGI group.
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INDABA - 01/27/2010
First Gathering as Crisis Abates
The main operators in Africa will be present in Cape Town in South Africa for the traditional Mining Indaba conference from February 1 to 4.
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GUINEA - 01/27/2010
Kemoko Touré
After a career spanning over 40 years, the new managing director of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG), Kemoko Touré, has been appointed to replace the Australian businessman Ronald Renton, who resigned from the job (AMI n°216).
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