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previous Archive n° 1205  - 01/06/2007 next   Francis Soler 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 "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] 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]   previous Archive n° 1205  - 01/06/2007 next

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