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Francis Soler
COMOROS ISLANDS Editor in Chief
Business in the country of fighting sultans
In the land of the fighting sultans, a small class of entrepreneurs is getting busy in the construction industry, import (equipment and consumer goods), export (cash crops) and related activity (freight transit, insurance). The large family businesses which have dominated the archipelago for many long years (Etablissements Ahmed Abdallah, Mohamed Ahmed and Kalfane) have imploded after the death of their founders, each of their heirs setting up his own company. (...)   [719 words]   [$11,2]
Asmara stokes the oven
   The government of Eritrea has revived its manoeuvres to bring the Ethiopian opposition and members of the Ethiopian Diaspora in the United States round to its cause. (...)  [340 words]   [$7]
POLITICS AND POWER BROKERS
SOUTH AFRICA
Thint gains time
   The South African subsidiary of Thales has just won a round in the Durban courts, winning it time in the Jacob Zuma corruption trial scheduled in 2006.  (...)  [276 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
maputo
A former minister in business
 [149 words]   [$2,1]
antananarivo
A minister has two new advisors
 [96 words]   [$2,1]
Mutsamudu
Hold up at the Anjouan tax office
 [88 words]   [$2,1]
Asmara
New representative to the United Nations
 [77 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Conference absentees
   The conference of donors for the Comoros islands held in Mauritius promised $200 million over four years for the government of Moroni.  (...)  [259 words]   [$7]

DIPLOMACY
UGANDA
Another woman ambassador to Paris
   A former ambassador to Cuba in the mid 1990s is to shortly take up the post of her country’s ambassador to Paris.  (...)  [147 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
MEDEF in Paris stood up by Ali Osman Taha
   Around thirty French officials and company representatives had already enrolled to take part in a working breakfast on 20 December organised by the French employers’ federation Mouvement des entreprises de France (Medef) International, where the guest of honour was to be Ali Osman Taha, passing through Paris.  (...)  [401 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
A Saudi businessman steals a march on USAID
   The decision to award the management of the project for a regional livestock export centre to the Saudi Mohamed Kayed Mohamed Saïd (ION 1160) looks strongly like a setback for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) which is funding the project.  (...)  [249 words]   [$7]

ORGANIZATIONS
omega
A conference on South Africa in London in January
 [162 words]   [$2,1]
ICRC
Agreement reached over the Red Cross in Madagascar
 [252 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
MOZAMBIQUE
Carlos Queiroz
   The assistant manager of the British football team Manchester United is planning to invest in the tourist sector in Mozambique, according to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from a source in the ministry of planning and finance in Maputo.  (...)  [151 words]   [$7]

APPOINTMENTS & MISSIONS
SUDAN
A Sudanese ambassador...
 [29 words]   [FREE]
UGANDA
The new South African ambassador to Uganda...
 [47 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Francis S.K. Bayah, the new Kenyan ambassador...
 [62 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
The former chairman of Electricidade de Moçambique...
 [74 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
A consultant is seconding the head of the...
 [41 words]   [FREE]
SOUTH AFRICA
Zodwa Ntuli
   A former Competition Commission executive, Zodwa Ntuli, has just been hired by South African Airways (SAA) to be its consultant on competition issues.  (...)  [145 words]   [$7]
KENYA
James Njenga Karume
   Reshuffling his government yet again this week to integrate several allies of Ford Kenya, President Mwai Kibaki separated the portfolio of Defence from that of Internal Security, making it into a completely separate ministry.  (...)  [215 words]   [$7]
SOUTHERN AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM
Jonathan Lawley
   A specialist on Africa, Jonathan Lawley, was recently appointed a consultant to the West Africa Business Association (WABA), with the task of setting up the Southern African Business Forum (SABF), a London based association of foreign companies operating in Southern Africa.  (...)  [197 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MADAGASCAR
Conflict over coal in Sakoa
   The working of coal in Sakoa, in the south west of Madagascar, could result in a dispute between two rival companies.  (...)  [250 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
TDM
A new boss in Mozambique
 [129 words]   [$2,1]
coler & colantonio
Feasibility study contract for water supply and sewage in Kenya
 [146 words]   [$2,1]
IPS
Bujagali dam in Uganda comes one step closer
 [135 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
Tanesco wants to take over IPTL
   A task force is to study how to reduce Tanesco’s bill for buying electricity from independent power producers.  (...)  [335 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
Offshore under scrutiny
   Belgium has asked the Mauritius public prosecutor to investigate an offshore company.  (...)  [149 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Bis repetitae
   A plot of land has just been awarded by decree for a three year old construction project.  (...)  [228 words]   [$7]
KENYA
NOCK no longer wants to buy BP
   The National Oil Corporation of Kenya has withdrawn from the race to acquire the assets of British Petroleum in distribution and refinery in Kenya.  (...)  [292 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
The government has been had
   A Dubai firm hired by the Seychelles government to build 2,000 houses has closed shop after first banking $4 million.  (...)  [292 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Ethanol for fuel soon
   Three companies who signed an agreement to build units to produce ethanol for export are now only waiting for the green light from the Malagasy authorities.  (...)  [346 words]   [$7]
ict
A Dutch joint venture project in Kenya
   For some months the Dutch company specialised in computer equipment and services Vertis and the Kenyan consultancy Connect Consulting Ltd, have been trying to set up a joint venture  (...)  [233 words]   [$7]
investment
From the casinos in Macao to Mozambique
   The firm Geocapital owned by the magnate of Macao casinos Stanley Ho, has just formed a joint venture called Zambcorp whose role is to undertake development actions in the Zambezi  (...)  [260 words]   [$7]
television
Soico carves its niche in Mozambique
   Sociedade Independente de Communicações (Soico) is to increase its capital from 1 to 6 billion meticals (1 euro = 30,000 meticals).  (...)  [140 words]   [$7]
finance
The three heads of the Central Bank of Sudan
   President Omar el Bashir has recently renewed the mandate of the governor of the Bank of Sudan, Sabir Mohamed El Hassan.  (...)  [132 words]   [$7]
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