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Francis Soler
AFRICA Editor in Chief
DFID overtakes the Foreign Office
Since New Labour came to power and Tony Blair Prime Minister, the Department For International Development (DFID), which he created in 1997, has assumed the role of spearhead of British policy on Africa. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been little by little relegated to playing second violin, giving rise to frustration and demotivation among the diplomats in charge of African affairs. (...)   [765 words]   [$11,2]
Opposition disunited
   The lack of unity in the Ugandan opposition will give President Yoweri Museveni a good chance of getting another term in office in the presidential election in February 2006. (...)  [341 words]   [$7]
POLITICS AND POWER BROKERS
TANZANIA
Kikwete’s Prime Minister
   Having been elected with a considerable majority, the new President Kikwete has substantial margin of manoeuvre in his choice of new Prime Minister.  (...)  [292 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
asmara
Former opponent imprisoned
 [171 words]   [$2,1]
Maputo
Joaquim Chissano in property
 [100 words]   [$2,1]
Antananarivo
Cardinal's intriguing retirement
 [183 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE
Joyce Mujuru getting ready
   The Zanu-PF convention has increased the power of the Vice President to ready her to take over from President Robert Mugabe.  (...)  [342 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
The Minister's radio station
   The Malagasy minister of labour has had the idea of launching a radio station to inform public and private sector employees about social legislation.  (...)  [168 words]   [$7]
KENYA
TI sweeps clean in Nairobi
   To restore its image with donors, the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International has just ousted two directors close to Kibaki.  (...)  [392 words]   [$7]

DIPLOMACY
SOMALIA
Firms of the Czech Republic are lying in wait
   A Czech-Somalia Joint Chamber of Commerce has recently been created in Prague at the initiative of the ministry of trade and industry of the Czech Republic, with the aim of acting as intermediary for Czech firms.  (...)  [346 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES/EUROPEAN UNION
Green light for the fishing agreement
   The European Parliament (EP) gave its go-ahead on 15 December for the fishing agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Seychelles which will remain in force until January 2011.  (...)  [338 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/ETHIOPIA
US Congressmen write to President George W. Bush
   A group of seven American Congressmen, including Tom Tancredo and Dan Burton, wrote to President George W. Bush, on 13 December to ask him to intervene to prevent a resumption of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea and to have the decision by the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) implemented.  (...)  [176 words]   [$7]

ORGANIZATIONS
undp
Consultant murdered in Madagascar
 [239 words]   [$2,1]
medef/ubifrance
Colloquium on the Horn of Africa
 [180 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
UNITED KINGDOM
James Bevan
   At just 46, James Bevan has been at the head of the African department of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) since 2003 (see page 1).  (...)  [234 words]   [$7]

APPOINTMENTS & MISSIONS
MADAGASCAR
The Madagascan Prime Minister...
 [128 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
The CEO of the press company La Sentinelle...
 [77 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
The death on 19 December of the Kenyan Asian ...
 [84 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
John Mtuta Mruttu
   The general manager of Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL), Chris House has just yielded his position to his assistant, John Mtuta Mruttu.  (...)  [256 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Alcinda Abreu
   The Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Alcinda Abreu has just formed a partnership with a businessman to set up a company in Maputo called Superior Entertainment Ltd.  (...)  [104 words]   [$7]
UNITED STATES/ETHIOPIA
Mirchaw Sinishaw
   The highly controversial opponent and head of the defunct Ethiopiawinet Radio which broadcast in Amharic in Washington, Mirchaw Sinishaw, has just created a political group under the name Ethiopiawinet Niknate.  (...)  [139 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MADAGASCAR
General Manager of Jirama ousted
   The rumour that has been doing the rounds in the Malagasy ministry of energy and mining has been confirmed: Rodrigue Haché, the new director general of Jirama (water and electricity  (...)  [356 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
ernst & young
Partner withdraws from Mozambique
 [88 words]   [$2,1]
helio resource
Namibians in Tanzania
 [205 words]   [$2,1]
bin ladin group
US vetoes a contract with Somalia
 [129 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
En route for Tucson
   Only a handful of sellers from Madagascar will be present at the precious stones fair in Tucson, Arizona, in February 2006.  (...)  [194 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
The SBM separates from Nedbank
   The State Bank of Mauritius could terminate its partnership with the South African Nedbank.  (...)  [219 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Indian automobile project
   An Indian company is planning to create a factory for making automobile spare parts in KwazuluNatal.  (...)  [158 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Chris Kirubi in the media
   The Kenyan businessman Chris Kirubi is slowly but surely metamorphosing into a new media magnate.  (...)  [267 words]   [$7]
KENYA
An NGO against Dominion Farms
   As well as the movement of populations situated on the site of the project, an American firm is confronted with an onslaught by an ecology NGO.  (...)  [278 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Steep bills
   The authorities of the Union of the Comoros are applying pressure on certain companies in Moroni to pay their taxes.  (...)  [476 words]   [$7]
forestry
A 30,000 hectare concession in Mozambique
   The government of Mozambique has awarded exclusive rights to exploit the timber on an area of almost 30,000 hectares for 50 years to a forestry company.  (...)  [170 words]   [$7]
supermarkets
The Kenyan firm Nakumatt’s plans for East Africa
   The rapidly expanding Kenyan supermarket chain Nakumatt Ltd is to open two subsidiaries in February 2006, in Kampala and Dar es-Salaam.  (...)  [272 words]   [$7]
horticulture
Dutch flower power in Ethiopia
   The Programme for Cooperation with Emerging Markets (PSOM), of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs is providing funding for a dozen projects for growing flowers in Ethiopia.  (...)  [268 words]   [$7]
oil
Debate over a licence in Somaliland
   Criticised in an open letter published last July, Andy Chakrabarti, the head of Rova Energy Corporation Ltd (REC), which has the licence to explore for oil in the Somaliland offshore,  (...)  [129 words]   [$7]
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