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previous Archive n° 973  - 11/24/2001 next   Francis Soler KENYA Editor in Chief Moi Keeps Several Irons in the Fire Instead of a radical ministerial reshuffle, President Daniel arap Moi decided to proceed with a half-measure on November 21. (...)   [720 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS & POWER ETHIOPIA Crackdown on Security Agents    A critical assessment session – known in Ethiopia under the name of gimgema – was held two weeks ago inside the dehininet, the government’s security agents department.  (...)  [285 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA Tigray Leadership Takes a Family Effort    Connected by close family relationships, the new leading team of the regional state of Tigray includes several former opponents of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi inside the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) who subsequently rallied to his side.  (...)  [418 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR An Oddly Timid Electoral Council    Although it is supposed to supervise a clean presidential election on December 16, the Conseil National des Elections (CNE) will have a hard time proving the contest's impartiality, should it continue to ape the positions of the ruling Arema party.  (...)  [300 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE The Upcoming Steps of Joaquim Vaz    Renamo's newly-elected secretary-general (ION 971) is to visit Maputo next month to take over his new functions at the head of the opposition party.  (...)  [290 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS Referendum Adds Up Problems    Due to a lack of candidates, President Assoumani Azali seems to have ditched the idea of forming an "enlarged" government (ION 970) and has not even found a replacement for his justice minister who resigned.  (...)  [322 words]  [$4.7] SEYCHELLES An Ex-Merc Celebrates His Failed Putsch    The arrival in Mahé two weeks ago, at the behest of the Seychelles People's Defense Forces (SPDF), of a former South African mercenary, has given rise to a storm of controversy.  (...)  [201 words]  [$1.5] KENYA Moi Keeps Several Irons in the Fire    Instead of a radical ministerial reshuffle, President Daniel arap Moi decided to proceed with a half-measure on November 21.  (...)  [720 words]  [$8.2] WHO'S WHO KENYA Marsden Madoka    President Daniel arap Moi has turned to the state minister in charge of provincial administration and internal security in the president's office as the man to replace Chris Obure as foreign minister (see page 1).  (...)  [221 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA Tsegaye Berhe    After serving as vice-president of the regional state of Tigray for 10 years (from 1991 to 2001), Tsegaye Berhe has officially succeeded Gebru Asrat as the state's president (see page 7).  (...)  [310 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA Teshome Kebede    Chairman of the Ethiopian Private Industrialist Association (EPIA)  (...)  [218 words]  [$4.7] FRANCE/MADAGASCAR Dominique Tissier    Having spent no more than a year and a half as managing director of Nigeria's Commercial Bank Crédit Lyonnais, Dominique Tissier will replace Daniel Bourgery as director general of the BNI-Crédit Lyonnais on Madagascar next month.  (...)  [277 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS & PROJECTS SEYCHELLES Hotel Owners Protest New Tax    Having returned from the 2001 World Travel Market in London from November 12 to 15, Seychelles hotel owners asked the Mahé government to revoke the 7% goods and services tax that it  (...)  [278 words]  [$4.7] COMPANIES ABYSSINIA INTEGRATED STEEL PLC The Patels Set a Foot in Ethiopia  [138 words]  [$1.5] WORLD DUTY FREE BA Partner to Drop Duties in Mauritius  [83 words]  [$1.5] ABN AMRO Dutch Bank Bows Out of Kenya  [178 words]  [$1.5] MADAGASCAR Taxman Assails Ratsiraka Rival    After vice-prime minister Pierrot Rajaonarivelo on October 25 granted him the power to close down temporarily the Tiko and Tiko Oil Products (TOP) firms, tax director general Mamisoa  (...)  [301 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA BOT Road Strip to Propel Region's Growth    Under the form of a BOT (Build, Operate, Transfer), an agreement towards the implementation of the Tanzania Central Corridor Road Project may be signed shortly between the Dar es Salaam  (...)  [316 words]  [$4.7] BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BANKING Efforts to Have Loans Repaid Prove Fruitless  [197 words]  [$4.7] SUGAR Garish Gara Subdues Sirama on Madagascar  [254 words]  [$4.7] CAR INDUSTRY Assembly Plant Inaugurated in Madagascar  [145 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA Mobile Telecom Privatization Put Off    It is the opinion of Kasu Ilala, Ethiopia's new infrastructures development minister, that the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is not yet ready for privatization.  (...)  [314 words]  [$4.7] FRANCE/KENYA Nairobi Mayor Vents Ire    The French ambassador to Kenya and the representative of the Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) to the country fell victim to what appeared to be a true media ambush organized  (...)  [460 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA Swedes Ambivalent About Bujagali's Dam    Swedish aid organizations for development and export support are not in sync concerning the financing of the future hydroelectric dam in Bujagali.  (...)  [233 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 973  - 11/24/2001 next

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