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Francis Soler
MADAGASCAR Editor in Chief
The Tiko group is favourably placed
President Marc Ravalomanana is making use of his presidential mandate to consolidate his commercial empire. Often in the name of a certain idea of efficiency, companies in the Tiko group owned by the Head of State are awarded public contracts... (...)   [670 words]   [$7]
Two ministers at loggerheads
   A new conflict is in the air within the government between the Minister of Agriculture Kipruto arap Kirwa and his colleague at Water Resources Management and Development, Martha Karua. (...)  [302 words]   [$7]
POLITICS AND POWER BROKERS
ETHIOPIA
Tactics in Washington
   Like the government of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian opposition is trying to win the good graces of Washington.  (...)  [306 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
addis ababa
Meles Zenawi's guards behind bars
 [146 words]   [$2,1]
Antananarivo
Free-for-all for the presidency of the APB
 [160 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
NGOs protect themselves
   The situation that is rife in the North of the country has pushed some international organisations into setting up their own protection systems.  (...)  [201 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Head of State's full agenda
   With international conferences, official visits and his daughter's wedding, Marc Ravalomanana has a very full diary for the start of 2005.  (...)  [346 words]   [$7]

DIPLOMACY
EUROPE/SUDAN
The carrot and the stick
   The Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) sent a double message on 13 December to the authorities in Khartoum and John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).  (...)  [218 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Waiting for the American position
   The Ethiopian government is preoccupied by the fact that the United States has still not reacted officially to the initiative for peace with Eritrea announced on 25 November by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.  (...)  [262 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Mission of French customs experts
   A mission by the World Bank consisting of two French experts in customs, Duhamel and Breuil, completed a one week working visit to the Comoros on 14 December.  (...)  [156 words]   [$7]

ORGANIZATIONS
Ustda
Study of unloader barges in Madagascar
 [162 words]   [$2,1]
ADF
Funds for electrical interconnection of Ethiopia and Djibouti
 [140 words]   [$2,1]
IMO
Meeting on maritime security in the Horn of Africa
 [57 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
United Kingdom to close its embassy before 2006
   The current British ambassador to Madagascar, Brian Donaldson, could be the last. To be sure, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is planning to close its embassy in Antananarivo before the end of 2006 and appoint a honorary consul in its place.  (...)  [132 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
MADAGASCAR
Christian Rasolomanana
   The new director general of the Central Bank is a 47 year old technician who has worked for every regime since he returned to Madagascar in 1985.  (...)  [214 words]   [$7]

APPOINTMENTS & MISSIONS
KENYA
Military Intelligence Corps
 [60 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Léa Ravololondratavy
 [67 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
Comité National Olympique
 [73 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
Leela Devi Dookun-Luchoomun
 [51 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Rose Kimotho
   The owner of the radio station Kameme FM was recently elected chair of the Media Owners Association (MOA) during the organisation's annual general meeting at the beginning of December.  (...)  [131 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/TANZANIA
Aziz L. A. Lyalika
   Since the beginning of December the French Ministry of Finance has had a representative at the French embassy in Dar es-Salaam.  (...)  [174 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Tourism
Green light for an ambitious project in Mayotte
   The General Council of Mayotte last week gave the green light to an ambitious tourist project (17 million euros) by the firm ProjetMayotte Sarl, in attributing it a long lease (40  (...)  [242 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
Dynatec
Feasibility study for a nickel and cobalt mine in Madagascar
 [85 words]   [$2,1]
DEPA
Contract for a hotel in Sudan
 [112 words]   [$2,1]
Norconsult
A promising study on Tanzania
 [102 words]   [$2,1]
Happy World Ltd
A woman at the helm in Mauritius
 [68 words]   [$2,1]
Oil
Death blow for Madagascan refinery
   The conviction on 14 December by a Madagascan tribunal of the company Galana Raffinerie Terminal (GRT) to pay 86 million euros in tax arrears and its director general Ould Ali Brahim  (...)  [337 words]   [$7]
Insurance Experts
A French firm sets up in Mauritius
   The French group PolyExpert, a firm of experts accredited with insurance companies, has just set up in Mauritius, where it has created PolyExpert (Mauritius).  (...)  [145 words]   [$7]
Tourist Industry
A new Club Mediterranee in Mauritius
   Club Méditerranée is planning to build a second tourist complex in Mauritius provided the Board of Investment (BOI) approves its project.  (...)  [87 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Black women's empowerment
   A management consultancy firm is to sell half of its capital to a black empowerment group dominated by women.  (...)  [272 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
An oil terminal in Beira
   The two year old project to build a terminal in Beira for oil products should see the light of day in early 2006.  (...)  [252 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Suspension of flights to Mayotte
   The French civil aviation authority has suspended flights to Mayotte by the Mozambican national airline for safety reasons.  (...)  [336 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Air problem with Kampala
   Nairobi and Kampala disagree about the way bilateral air routes should be divided between the two country's airlines.  (...)  [350 words]   [$7]
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