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Francis Soler
MADAGASCAR Editor in Chief
Ravalomanana’s foreign legion
All the more captivated by Anglo-Saxon management methods through the fact that for a long time he has been ill-at-ease in the French language, President Marc Ravalomanana has gathered a prestigious body of foreign consultants, particularly Germans, Norwegians and North Americans. (...)   [631 words]   [$11,2]
COMOROS ISLANDS
A new election marathon in sight
  A deluge of candidates is emerging for the presidential election on the autonomous island of Ngazidja to be held in April 2007, whose funding is still uncertain. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
CHINA/AFRICA
A dual controlled team
   An unusual aspect of the Chinese nomenklatura where women generally have little role – African issues are supervised by women at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).  (...)  [350 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Khartoum    The Sudanese Minister for Energy and Mines, Awad Ahmed al-Jaz, is to give a lecture at the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris on 29 November on the outlook for the Sudanese market. (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
Dar es Salaam    After the Regional Commissioner of Tabora, Mzuzuri Ditopile, recently imprisoned for killing a bus driver, it is now the son of the Minister for Home Affairs Joseph Mungai who has been trigger-happy. (...)  [65 words]   [$2,1]
Moroni    Whereas the Al Marwan Group and the Gulftainer company have both already transported their equipment and technicians so that they can begin freight handling activity in the port of Moroni, the government of the autonomous island of Ngazidja is still standing in opposition to the government of the Union of the Comoros on this issue. (...)  [131 words]   [$2,1]
Johannesburg    The body for supporting French exporters, Ubifrance is planning a mission to South Africa in mid March 2007 to offer the services of French companies to the South African committee organising the World Cup football tournament in 2010. (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
Diplomats fall in love with Africa
   Like Tao Weiguang, the Chinese Ambassador to the Comoros who had previously spent twelve years in the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Ivory Coast, the Chinese emissaries to Africa generally have close links with the continent and have spent a good portion of their career there.  (...)  [340 words]   [$7]
CHINA/AFRICA
Zhai Jun
   Zhai Jun, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs in charge of West Asia and Africa has spent twelve years in the North Africa and Middle East department, of which he was himself the director from 2003 until 2006.  (...)  [88 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
Xu Jinghu
   Xu Jinghu has a long experience of Africa behind her.  (...)  [108 words]   [$2,1]

ON THE LINE
SOUTH AFRICA
    During a three day visit to South Africa  this week, the French Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade Christine Lagarde attended two lunches given by important South African businessmen, each to a small group and closed to the press. (...)  [227 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
    Iranian designs on the Comoros  were outlined in a recent Comoros ministry for foreign relations document, of which The Indian Ocean Newsletter has obtained a copy. (...)  [225 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
    The AU mission to Sudan  is running short of money, five weeks after the problem was raised at a meeting in Addis Ababa between the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU). (...)  [146 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
    The Ethiopian auditor general    was sacked from his post on 10 Nov., just a short time after he had presented Parliament with a report that was very severe on the government's management of funds. (...)  [107 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
    The United States Embassy  in Port Louis (Mauritius) is looking for a consular agent in the Seychelles. (...)  [92 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
Zhang Ming
   Zhang Ming who heads the embassy in Kenya, began his career in the MFA Middle East and North Africa department where he spent eleven years.  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Kamlesh Pattni goes into politics
   The rich businessman Kamlesh Pattni, the main suspect in the Goldenberg scandal, has the devil’s own cheek.  (...)  [220 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
Issayas Afeworki’s auxiliaries
   After ousting all those who could stand up against him, the Eritrean President is now governing on his own, with only a handful of his staunch supporters from the country’s one party as his advisors.  (...)  [371 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
ARD calls for civil disobedience
   Prevented from demonstrating during the recent Comesa summit in Djibouti, an opposition party is calling for a campaign of civil disobedience against the regime.  (...)  [130 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Stefanie Hanke packs her bags
   Strongly critical of the Malagasy regime, the representative of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung has resigned.  (...)  [190 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
Chinese officers at work
   Just as the Sino-African jamboree was being held in Beijing, top ranking Chinese officers went to Kampala to discuss their future military cooperation.  (...)  [210 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
A new election marathon in sight
   A deluge of candidates is emerging for the presidential election on the autonomous island of Ngazidja to be held in April 2007, whose funding is still uncertain.  (...)  [475 words]   FREE
SEYCHELLES
The investigation is going slowly
   The investigation of the incident when the police beat up the leaders of the Seychelles National Party in October is taking a long time to get off the ground.  (...)  [267 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS CIRCLES
lobbying
Chinese African sales reps
   The high degree of official interest for Africa expressed by the Chinese leaders has prompted a number of companies to start offering lobby services for Sino-African trade.  (...)  [311 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
Afriland First Bank
Jessie Liang
 [152 words]   [$2,1]
Ministry of Trade
Wei Jianguo
 [121 words]   [$2,1]
Xinhua
Tang Shuifu
 [121 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
CACF
 [131 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
CABC
 [119 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
CCPIT
 [60 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Dynatec
 [170 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Pride Diamonds
 [77 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
MasterCard
 [248 words]   [$2,1]
MAYOTTE ISLAND
Alexandair
 [144 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
Horizon Equity
 [85 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
Aéroports de Paris
 [134 words]   [$2,1]
INDIAN OCEAN
BNP Paribas
 [62 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
Edgo Group
 [135 words]   [$2,1]
REUNION ISLAND
Ecoré
 [121 words]   [$2,1]
telecoms
ZTE v Huawei in the African boxing ring
   The companies Zhonging Telecommunications Ltd (ZTE) and Huawei Technologies are in head-on competition on the African continent.  (...)  [406 words]   [$7]
oil
Beijing explores Africa from London
   The main port of entry into Europe for Chinese companies, London also houses the Africa departments of several oil companies.  (...)  [420 words]   [$7]
banking
Chinese banking activity in Johannesburg
   The Export Import Bank of China specialises in making secured loans to African governments which repay in oil or minerals and in 2002 opened an office in Johannesburg, in charge of  (...)  [348 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
A former governor's business
   A descendant of the African emperor Ngugunhana, the former governor of Gaza province and present Frelimo (ruling party) MP Eugénio Numaio has the wind in his sails and has formed several  (...)  [196 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Anglorand Securities in mines
   The South African financial services company Anglorand Securities has just participated in the creation of a Mozambican firm to work tantalite together with a number of other partners.  (...)  [340 words]   [$7]
MAYOTTE ISLAND
Cold storage war
   Two local entrepreneurs have set out on a race to build a cold storage depot in order to expand food trade on the island.  (...)  [369 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Areva's ambitions
   The French company is pulling out all the stops to become in the near future a strategic partner in the South African nuclear development programme.  (...)  [344 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Alcan's local partner
   Alcan has joined forces with a firm headed by a Madagascan for its planned project to work bauxite and possibly other ores.  (...)  [255 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
CIM Financial Group eyeing India
   The financial pole of the Mauritius group Rogers is interested in the emerging financial market in India. It has decided to send a prospecting mission to the sub-continent next month.  (...)  [301 words]   FREE

WHO'S WHO
Mozambique/CHINA
Stanley Ho
   The Chinese businessman Stanley Ho who made his fortune in casinos in Macao, is taking a growing interest in Mozambique.  (...)  [118 words]   [$2,1]
Madagascar
Hui Chi Ming
   The Hong Kong magnate Hui Chi Ming, the owner of the Gahood holding company and the distribution group Sino Union Petroleum and Chemical Intl Ltd (SUNPEC), has built up a banking and  (...)  [153 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
Chen Zinghe
   Chen Zinghe has been the chairman of the Zijin Mining Group co since 2000.  (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
An Yongyu
   An Yongyu is a Chinese diplomat who has devoted thirty years to African matters.  (...)  [129 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
Huang Zequan
   Huang Zequan, the deputy chairman of the Chinese Research Society of African Affairs (CRSAA) is a former journalist on the People’s Daily.  (...)  [145 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
Yang Guang
   Yang Guang has headed the Institute Of West Asian and African Studies (IWAAS), which depends on the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), since 1998.  (...)  [122 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
Chen Xiaoming
   Chen Xiaoming, seconded by his two deputy directors Feng Zuoku and Zhu Changbing, heads the Africa-Asia department of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries  (...)  [76 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/AFRICA
Yang Fuchang
   Yang Fuchang chairman of the Chinese-African People’s Friendship Association (CAPFA) has spent his whole career in the diplomatic corps.  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA/CHINA
Omar Ramadhan Mapuri
   An apparatchik of the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM, ruling) has just been accredited in China as Ambassador of Tanzania.  (...)  [147 words]   [$7]
MAYOTTE ISLAND
Ibrahim Aboubacar
   The former secretary general of the Parti Socialiste (PS) in Mayotte, recently replaced in this post by Mounirou Ahmed, is to take up the function at the beginning of 2007 of general  (...)  [119 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Ali Ibrahim Mzimba
   The Comoran lawyer Ali Ibrahim Mzimba, 43, has just been on a mission to Paris to look for sponsors for his campaign to be a candidate in the forthcoming presidential election in Ngazidja  (...)  [214 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Antoine Delaporte
   The board of the Grand Hôtel du Louvre in Antananarivo has a new chairman. He is the Frenchman Antoine Delaporte, who was appointed to this post last month for a period of six yea  (...)  [94 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/MADAGASCAR
Philippe Tabuteau
   The only woman candidate in the presidential election in Madagascar, Elia Ravelomanantsoa, has a campaign manager in Paris who provides her with support in strategy, contacts and  (...)  [128 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS/FRANCE
Philippe Hitié
   The representative of Corsaifly in Mauritius, Philippe Hitié, has struggled hard to have the board of Corsair in Paris accept a request to sponsor the first international Creole festival  (...)  [223 words]   [$7]

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