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Francis Soler
KENYA Editor in Chief
The dinosaurs make a big comeback
Whereas the young KANU hotheads, like Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, are in league with the opposition, former dignitaries of the regime of former President Daniel arap Moi are more inclined to narrow the gap between their positions and those of the current President Mwai Kibaki ahead of the elections in 2007. (...)   [706 words]   [$11,2]
SOMALIA
Call to the Jihadists for help
  During a meeting in Mogadishu this week, the leaders of the UIC invited international Islamists to join them in the event of war with Ethiopia. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
MADAGASCAR
Herizo's French friends
   In addition to his support committee in France coordinated by Eric Rajaona, the former Minister Herizo Razafimahaleo has the backing of several French friends in his campaign for the Madagascan presidential election.  (...)  [197 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Addis Ababa    The Saudi-Ethiopian magnate Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi has had a 34 metre (112 foot) yacht built to sail on Lake Malaren in Sweden. (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]
Port-Louis    The Danon couple, Laurence chief executive officer of Printemps and her husband Pierre, also in business, may spend their holidays in Mauritius. (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
Khartoum    Several members of the delegation accompanyinghe two Sudanese ministers to Paris this week to attend a seminar on 29 November were French. (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
Antananarivo    he Catholic institution Opus Dei is considering its forthcoming implantation in Madagascar, at the request of the officials of Bishop of Ambanja’s Catholic hospital, in the north east of the country. (...)  [77 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
Troops based in Kenya for Somalia
   The UPDF is to send troops to north eastern Kenya ahead of the intervention in Somalia by an African force to support the Baidoa based Somalian Transitional Federal Government in its fight against the militia of the Union of the Islamic Courts (UIC).  (...)  [243 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Kibaki turns to the evangelists
   The Kenyan President has begun to consult the head of an evangelist church to try to drum up his support for the general election at the end of 2007.  (...)  [234 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
Call to the Jihadists for help
   During a meeting in Mogadishu this week, the leaders of the UIC invited international Islamists to join them in the event of war with Ethiopia.  (...)  [189 words]   FREE

ON THE LINE
COMOROS ISLANDS
    Visiting the Comoros, the son of the Koweiti Minister of Home Affairs and Defence, Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah, recently took possession of the keys of the buildings which previously housed the Ngazidja government’s ministry of home affairs. (...)  [122 words]   [$2,1]
ERITREA/ETHIOPIA
    For Jendayi Frazer, the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea is attributable to the colonial maps drawn up in Europe without taking into account the reality on the ground. (...)  [204 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
    A French law expert is helping Madagascar to draw up the bill to strengthen repression of offences on the high sea, including illegal fishing. (...)  [142 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
    Accor’s success in Mauritius is partly due to the lobbying effected by the French former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Renaud Muselier, who has acted as a consultant for the hotel group with the Mauritius government. (...)  [112 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
    Two people were disappointed by Brigitte Girardin when she went to the Comoros this week, namely the Presidents of the autonomous islands of Ngazidja (Abdou Souleh Elbak) and Mohéli (Mohamed Saïd Fazul). (...)  [221 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
New members galore for MMM
   With the government's popularity on the ebb, the opposition is trying to gain support from local personalities with a view to preparing the future.  (...)  [342 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Bacar’s rivals in Anjouan
   The outgoing President of the autonomous island of Anjouan is facing several potential rivals for the presidential election in April 2007.  (...)  [255 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
Khartoum may control South’s border
   The government of Khartoum is trying to take control of the comings and goings of foreigners to South Sudan.  (...)  [324 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS CIRCLES
ETHIOPIA
Palladex in uranium and gold
   The British firm Ambrian Capital (formerly known as Golden Prospect) has merged its mining interests in Ethiopia, Madagascar and Sierra Leone with the British junior mining company  (...)  [290 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
MOZAMBIQUE
Sogir
 [143 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
The Washington Group
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
ArtComm
 [131 words]   [$2,1]
INDIAN OCEAN
Haggai Conseil
 [75 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Telma
 [90 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
Merlin International
 [163 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
MicroCred
 [113 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
ACCL
 [102 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
Artumas Group
 [173 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Biwott's businessman profile
   While remaining faithful to Daniel arap Moi, the former Minister Nicholas Biwott, nicknamed Total Man, has managed to keep his business interests.  (...)  [327 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Property boom in Johannesburg
   The prospect of the World Cup football tournament in 2010 has brought on a movement of property speculation in Johannesburg, dominated by white investors.  (...)  [339 words]   FREE
UGANDA
An oil sheikh may invest
   A Saudi businessman has had a meeting with President Museveni to discuss investing in the energy sector.  (...)  [162 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
An airline for Moroni
   The project for the island of Ngazidja to have an airline of its own could be about to go into its materialisation phase, after being in gestation for a year.  (...)  [313 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Riversdale gets hands on Africoal
   Following its acquisition of Africoal, the Australian junior has gained the rights to 200,000 hectares of mining permits in four of the provinces in the Zambezi valley.  (...)  [226 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Rural Maintenance replaces Siemens
   Siemens has given way to the South African firm Rural Maintenance in the capital of Energia de Moçambique following a recent change in the latter’s share structure.  (...)  [200 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
SOMALIA
Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur
   The number two to Yusuf Mohamed Siad “Indha-Adde”, the head of security of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), is in the forefront of organising an Islamic army and youth training  (...)  [184 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/SUDAN
François Zimeray
   French lawyer and partner in the law firm Jeantet Associés since 1997, François Zimeray was something of a wet blanket at the seminar on Sudan held by the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie  (...)  [227 words]   [$7]
INDIA/SOUTH AFRICA
Rajiv Kumar Bhatia
   The Indian Ambassador to Mexico and Belize since 2005, Rajiv Kumar Bhatia has just been selected to be the new Indian High Commissioner to South Africa.  (...)  [107 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Mandla Langa
   A writer and former head of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), Mandla Langa, 56, did not take up the post of CEO of the South African Broadcasting Corporation  (...)  [141 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Jacquis Rabarison
   The firm Madagascar Consolidated Mining (MCM), a newly formed subsidiary of Madagascar Oil headed by Sam Malin, will soon begin its activity.  (...)  [177 words]   [$7]
GERMANY/SEYCHELLES
Kirstin Henri
   A new Honorary Consul has recently taken up her functions in the Seychelles. She is Kirstin Henri, of German extraction, married to the Seychelles artist Nigel Henri and has lived  (...)  [89 words]   [$7]

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