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MADAGASCAR - 03/13/2010
Rajoelina’s top ten advisors
For the last year, the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina known as TGV has managed to stay in power by thwarting international pressure for him to install a consensus regime. Several of his advisors, each in a specific post, have had a significant role to play to help him get over this hurdle or help him find funding.
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DJIBOUTI - 03/13/2010
The level of security as seen by UN
According to the evaluation made by the United Nations on a scale of one to five (where five corresponds to a need to evacuate its entire staff) the level of security in Djibouti is seen as being in phase one in much of the country.
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UGANDA/IRAN - 03/13/2010
Yoweri Museveni
President Yoweri Museveni would not seem to be able to go without his annual trip to Iran in May.
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TUNISIA - 03/11/2010
Political Elite in Solar Energy Vanguard
Everybody is climbing aboard the solar energy bandwagon, and specially prominent political figures. Former ministers and cronies of current ministers are putting the final touches to their projects in this fashionable field. The outlook appears promising. Subsidies are expected to rain on the solar energy industry thanks to a combination of Tunisia’s solar energy plan (see opposite) and international financial organizations.
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TUNISIA - 03/11/2010
Chayata Has Big Things in Mind
Moving with great discretion, the Tunisian businessman Sedki Chayata is launching a raft of new ventures. Already present in the plastics business with Tunisian Global Plasturgy, he has just inaugurated a firm specializing in packaging, Technipack.
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Central Bank, Tunis - 03/11/2010
The Headaches of Taoufik Baccar
Ordered to modernize Tunisia’s banking industry, the governor of the Banque Centrale Tunisienne, Taoufik Baccar, has still a mountain to climb before succeeding in the endeavour.
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CONGO-K - 03/10/2010
Hong Kong Court Upholds Debt Claim
The Congolese government and the semi-state-owned companyGecamines, which have already lost out on almost half of a USD 50 million entry fee owed by China Railway Group (AMI n°220), have just suffered another setback which could set a legal precedent.
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SENEGAL - 03/10/2010
Top Names to Feature at First SIM
Senegal has decided to wheel out the big guns for the launch of the Salon International des Mines (SIM), which is to take place from April 12 to 15, just as the country celebrates 50 years of independence.
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IVORY COAST - 03/10/2010
Augustin Komoé Kouadio
On February 23 Augustin Komoé Kouadio was appointed minister for mines and energy in Guillaume Soro’s government, replacing Léon Emmanuel Monnet.
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ANGOLA - 03/03/2010
The World is Sonangol’s Oyster
On the strength of its robust cash position, Angola managed to briefly overtake Nigeria as Africa’s leading oil producer last year and is now thinking in global terms. To be sure, the national oil company Sonangol is acquiring stakes in oil and gas projects across the globe and re-investing its profits in up-market real estate projects via its subsidiary China Sonangol.
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NIGER - 03/03/2010
Chinese In for a Rough Ride
Africa Energy Intelligence understands that following the Feb. 18 coup d'etat that toppled president Mamadou Tandja most executives from the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) took refuge in the Chinese embassy in Niamey and stayed until Feb.
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CONGO-K - 03/03/2010
Gilbert Tshiongo Tshibunkubula
Congo-K’s new energy minister, 67-year-old Gilbert Tshiongo Tshibinkubula Wa Tumba, is a legislator from Western Kasai province, a constituency in which he briefly served as governor in 2006.
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