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The Indian Ocean Newsletter /Archives

Archive n° 1205 - 01/06/2007

EAST AFRICA

Editor in Chief

Bad start to the new year for Gapco

One of the partners in the Rail India Technical & Economic Services Ltd (Rites) consortium which is to operate the Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC) from March 2007, the private concern Gulf Africa Petroleum Corporation (Gapco) is in trouble with its banks in a number of countries. (...) [739 words] [$8.2]

FREE ARTICLE

	The United States in turmoil
	The Bush administration is divided about Somalia. The President, busy with his problems in Iraq, initially handed the problem to the CIA and later to the State Department. (...) [330 words] [FREE]

POLITICS & POWER


SOMALIA
Transition government still divided
The Ethiopian military intervention against the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) has put the Somalian Transitional Federal Government (TFG) led by Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi into power in Mogadishu without however healing the internal rifts within this new team. (...) [319 words] [$4.7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS


	Maputo The Frelimo (ruling party) MP and former Minister for veteran combatants, Antonio Hama Thay, has just created a company with a member of his family, Adelina Maria Fernanda Carlos Nhantumbo Thay. (...) [54 words] [$1.5]


	Addis Abeba It was the Tigrayan General Seyoum Hagos and his Oromo colleague, General Bacha Dabale, who led the victorious Ethiopian army campaign against the militia of the Islamic Courts in Somalia. (...) [142 words] [$1.5]


	Antananarivo The sons of the chairman of the Groupement des Entreprises Franches et Partenaires Jacky Radavidra are to run under their own steam as insurance agents. (...) [72 words] [$1.5]


	Asmara A former diplomat in the Eritrean embassy in Cairo has asked for political asylum in the United Kingdom. (...) [93 words] [$1.5]


MADAGASCAR
The dark motives for a deportation
A French businessman of Indo-Pakistani origin has just been deported by President Marc Ravalomanana. No reason was given for this decision. (...) [422 words] [$4.7]


TANZANIA
A famous lobbyiste in Washington
The government of Dar es-Salaam has just hired the firm GoodWorks International to handle its advertising in Washington with American officials and media. (...) [178 words] [$4.7]


SOMALIA
The United States in turmoil
The Bush administration is divided about Somalia. The President, busy with his problems in Iraq, initially handed the problem to the CIA and later to the State Department. (...) [330 words] [FREE]

ON THE LINE


	MAURITIUS The Minister for the Environment, Anil Baichoo was not on the official Mauritius delegation this week to participate in the Indian Diaspora Day in New Delhi (see p. (...) [220 words] [$1.5]


	KENYA The staff of Transparency International Kenya fear that the Berlin based parent of this NGO could suspend its subsidiary in Nairobi, bogged down in internal conflict questioning the management of some of its officials. (...) [111 words] [$1.5]


	ETHIOPIA The meeting between Ethiopian intellectuals partisans and opponents of the government in Addis Ababa, announced recently in The Indian Ocean Newsletter, has provoked a number of reactions. (...) [160 words] [$1.5]


	KENYA The arrest of an executive of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF, Ethiopian opposition) entering Kenya from Somalia and bearing a Canadian passport will make the Canadian authorities hold an investigation. (...) [94 words] [$1.5]


	KENYA Martha Karua, the Kenyan Minister of Justice, could have trouble getting re-elected to Parliament at the end of the year in her Gichugu (Central Province) constituency. (...) [181 words] [$1.5]


COMOROS ISLANDS
New tension with the islands
Negotiations between the Union and the autonomous islands over the sharing of competency have broken off, plunging the archipelago into a period of turbulence. (...) [311 words] [$4.7]


MAURITIUS
LP returns Nando Bodha’s favour
The leader of the opposition’s participation in an official Mauritius delegation to a conference in New Delhi on the Indian Diaspora will revive the local debate on political alliances. (...) [283 words] [$4.7]

BUSINESS CIRCLES


	MOZAMBIQUE
	A former minister in import-export
	Already a shareholder in several other companies, the Mozambican former Minister of Home Affairs, Almerino Manhenje, still a member of the Frelimo (governing) party, is now going into (...) [150 words] [$4.7]

COMPANIES


	Imensis MOZAMBIQUE [74 words] [$1.5]


	FAIL MAURITIUS [104 words] [$1.5]


	Lundin Mining ERITREA [77 words] [$1.5]


	Tom Investment MADAGASCAR [208 words] [$1.5]


	Barclays TANZANIA [157 words] [$1.5]


	BICM MADAGASCAR [230 words] [$1.5]


	Mugoya Construction KENYA [84 words] [$1.5]


	Libyan Arab Investments Co. UGANDA [211 words] [$1.5]


	MADAGASCAR
	A hotel for the elderly in Nosy Be
	Several foreign investors have joined forces with a Madagascan in order to create a tourist resort for the elderly in Nosy Be on State-owned land. (...) [310 words] [$4.7]


	MADAGASCAR
	ATTR’s discreet shareholders
	Several local shareholders are hiding behind the well-known CEO of the first Madagascan private company to make internal flights on a regularly scheduled basis. (...) [239 words] [$4.7]


	MAURITIUS
	BAI wants to create a bank of its own
	After the Mon Loisir group which will shortly launch the AfrAsia Bank Ltd, it is now the turn of BAI to enter into the Mauritius banking sector. (...) [155 words] [$4.7]


	MAURITIUS
	Catovair sets sail for Moroni
	The subsidiary of the Mauritius company IBL is negotiating with the government of the Union of the Comoros to create a national airline in the archipelago. (...) [214 words] [$4.7]


	SOUTH AFRICA
	Cimpor’s black partners
	The South African subsidiary of the Portuguese cement group Cimpor has sold 26% of its equity to black partners in order to comply with South African legislation. (...) [264 words] [$4.7]


	KENYA
	Upheaval at Pan Africa Insurance
	Changes in the operations of this insurance company have disgruntled clients and led to the departure of some of its management. (...) [178 words] [$4.7]


	DJIBOUTI
	"Rien ne va plus, les jeux sont faits"
	Two more hotels have just been given gaming licences, after the casino in the Sheraton hotel, which is still run by the Djibouti businessman Abdourahman Boreh. (...) [168 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	MADAGASCAR/JAPAN
	Hiro Kanda
	President Marc Ravalomanana has had a very discreet Japanese special advisor since May 2006 who can speak only his mother tongue and English and is a specialist in companies. (...) [124 words] [$4.7]


	SOUTH AFRICA
	Monna Mokoena
	The first black South African to have opened a gallery of modern art in Johannesburg (called MoMo, derived from his initials), Monna Mokoena wanted to fill a gap in the art market (...) [139 words] [$4.7]


	SOUTH AFRICA/CANADA/KENYA
	Bruce Shapiro
	As well as working with the Canada-South Africa Chamber of Business (CSACB), the head of MineAfrica (ION 1203), Bruce Shapiro is also a member of the Canada-Kenya Chamber of Commerce (...) [163 words] [$4.7]


	GERMANY/MADAGASCAR
	Oliver Dalichau
	The new head of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES, a foundation close to the German SPD party) in Antananarivo, Oliver Dalichau, is a young bachelor aged 32. (...) [107 words] [$4.7]


	MOZAMBIQUE
	Sibone Manuel Mocumbi
	The son of the former Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi, who is already a shareholder in Sociedade da Industria, Comercio et Serviços Lda (SICS, consultants), has just created the company (...) [130 words] [$4.7]


	UNITED STATES/AFRICA
	Russel Feingold
	The Democrat Senator for Wisconsin, Russel Feingold, will once more be chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs in the next few days. (...) [237 words] [$4.7]

Archive n° 1205 - 01/06/2007

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